Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Class Schedule Weeks 10-15 and Finals

Standards, Law, and Ethics
Monday, Oct. 27
Class: “Online-only work versus Traditional Journalism”
Guest speaker, Jason Kosena, Colorado Independent
Introduction to second audio project: Online Audio News Package

Wednesday, Oct. 29
Class: “Radio News Packages versus Online Audio News Packages"
Guest Instructor, Mario Caballero, KCSU-FM and Student Media
Lab: Audio Script Writing/Natural Sound Gathering/Plan Package

Monday, Nov. 3
Class: Blog reviews and awards from Eve Fisher, Ph. D. candidate
Multiple-track editing on Audition demonstration by Jason Moses
Lab: Second audio project field work

Wednesday, Nov. 5
Class: “Legal and Ethical Issues Online”
Readings for class: "Diversity at Work: Rewriting the American Story" by Tom Huang
"RTNDA Survey: Women, Minorities Progress in TV Newsrooms" by Jill Geisler
"Legal and business advice for online publishers and bloggers" by Kim Pearson
Lab: Second audio project editing
Project is due before class Nov. 10, posted on or linked from blog site

Multi-media Reporting and Design
Monday, Nov. 10
Class: Introduction to in-depth cooperative “Multi-Media Reporting” and Planning Guide
Lab : Form teams and brainstorm assignment

Wednesday, Nov. 12
Class: Guest Instructor, Julia Sandidge: "In-Camera Editing”
Reading for class: Chapters 9, 10 and 11 from Briggs and "Multi-media Storytelling" by Jane Stevens

Monday, Nov. 17
Class: “Basic Online Design Principles and Search Engine Optimization” with Eve Fisher, Ph.D. candidate
Reading for class: TBA
Introduction to second Web site critique assignment

Wednesday, Nov. 19
Class: Finalize assignments for multi-media project, turn in formal outline
Readings for class: "Map Mashup Resources" by Jerry Monti
"Using Spreadsheet Data in Google Maps and Google Earth" by Jerry Monti
"Google Map Basics" by Jerry Monti

Monday, Dec. 1
Class: Newsroom (Your group must be ready to meet at 4 p.m.)
Second Web site critique due
Eve's final blog awards!!!

Wednesday, Dec. 3
Class: Newsroom (Your group must be ready to meet at 4 p.m.)

Monday, Dec. 8
Class: Newsroom (Your group must be ready to meet at 4 p.m.)

Wednesday, Dec. 10
Class: Drafts of all materials due to instructor/GTA (page designs, written, video, audio, graphics, etc.) at the beginning of the class (4 p.m.)
Discussion of progress

Each group must make appointment with GTA and/or instructor on between Dec. 11 and Dec. 15 to review work before it is posted to Web.

All Multi-Media projects must be posted to the Web BEFORE the beginning of the final exam period on Dec. 17 at 7 a.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 7 a.m.
Presentations of multi-media projects: Q&A
Evaluations of class, peers and self