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1. Don’t overuse them Readers will easily start ignoring your audio slideshows if they’re continuously overused and the content is mediocre. Figure out which stories are best suited for a slideshow (i.e. a city council meeting may not be the most appropriate time). Sometimes a slideshow or video is . . . → Read More: Five ways to make your audio slideshows more appealing Andrew Dunn notes that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is getting with the program and requiring a multimedia course for all journalism students as part of their new curriculum. Glad to know they’ve joined us in the future! In the meantime, I’ve been updating my syllabus for the multimedia course here at EIU based on a semester’s worth of experience in the field. Below the fold is the new version of the syllabus/schedule with a few explanatory notes. Continue reading Multimedia course syllabus update for Spring 2009 Mindy Mcdams has a syllabus up for her class in multimedia reporting at UF. It looks great, and varies not so much from what our syllabus is here at Eastern (see here for that syllabus). I will say that from this semester’s experience, our course will be restructured slightly to emphasize audio and video skills even . . . → Read More: Mindy’s multimedia syllabus Last week, I submitted an itemized list for the multimedia storytelling class at Eastern Illinois University (see here for syllabus and here for FAQ). Below the fold, I’m pasting the list I sent to my department head. Each “kit” costs about $400, and we plan to have one kit per student by the time the class is up and running. The biggest issue with coming up with the kits was the video camera. There were only two entry-level video cameras that has a mic input, and none with a headphone input as well. As this is a beginning class, it was hard to justify the additional hundreds of dollars that would be necessary to get gear with both mic and headphone inputs. These kits would also be useful for a campus media outlet that wants to get into multimedia in an inexpensive manner. So here’s the list. Feel free to add comments below. Continue reading Mojo kits for multimedia storytelling class Several questions arose in the comments to the post I wrote yesterday about the multimedia course syllabus. To answer some of those questions, I’m creating a FAQ (although they aren’t really “frequently asked” questions at this point). Hopefully, this additional information will be useful to you. If anyone has further questions, I’ll answer them as I can. Check below the fold. JANUARY 2009 UPDATE: New Syllabus version here. UPDATE: Check out the FAQ about the syllabus UPDATE 2: Here’s the proposed mojo kit for the class. Yesterday, I mentioned that Eastern Illinois University has approved a multimedia journalism class as a requirement for journalism majors beginning in Fall 2008. Below the fold, I’m posting the tentative course outline and some syllabus information for anyone who might want to take a look. Keep in mind that this is an introductory class. The goal is to give every student a rudimentary knowledge of different ways to tell stories with multimedia. From there, if they want to learn more, there are advanced classes. Students in the class are required to pay a lab fee, which will help with the purchase of necessary equipment. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. |
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