COURSE
SCHEDULE
Introductions:
Who
am I, who is our TAP
assistant Whitney Rhodes, director of the new
Connect2Mason (more on that to follow!), who are you, why are
we here, and what are we going to be doing? We'll review this
online  interactive
syllabus and learn how to use it throughout the semester. You'll
complete a technology survey (handout). We'll familiarize ourselves
with the class
blog and how we'll use it.
We'll take a tour
of the STAR Lab
in 229 Johnson Center on Thursday.
Using the PCs:
(time permitting), write a brief autobiographical sketch and save
it to your jump/flash drive.
This week's focus:
Online Journalism: So, What's It
All About, Anyway?
Writing
News Online: A Dozen Tips
Online
Storytelling Forms
What
Is Your Media Pyramid?
Steve Klein: On the Cusp of Tomorrow
OJR:
Online News Pioneers See Lots of Changes in the First 10 Years
Show-and-Tell:
2007
Google Year-End Zeitgeist
NYTimes
multimedia: Portraits of Grief/Profiles of WTC Victims
History
of Electronic Newspapers
MSNBC: The Big Picture
Resources:
Digital
Media Center
STAR Workshops
NetLingo Internet Dictionary
JournalistExpress
Journalist's
Toolbox
PowerReporting
Resources for Journalists
Reporter's
Desktop
Online Reading (for NEXT week):
Plagiarism
in the Internet Age
Tutorial on
Tuesday: Tuesday Jan. 29, a Dreamweaver
tutorial: Our TAP assistant and Katrina Joseph
from the Instructional
Resource Center will assist you in how to construct a home
page and build on it throughout the semester, finishing  with
a practical personal website on the Mason server.
(Note: It is critical that you know your GMU
pin number and have it with you in class. You will
need it to create an account and upload your website if you have
not already done so. Your pin number is the same number you use
to register in 4GMU.
This site will have links to all of your classwork assignments,
your weblog, your final project, your favorite site links, and
your resume. You will have benchmarks for completion of these
elements of your website, most before Spring Break; failure to
meet them will result in losing grading points (ouch!).
Video
conference #1 on Thursday in 455 Innovation Hall (336IH
is the flowover room): Former Bush White House
Press Secretary
Ari Fleischer.
Resources:
- The
Bare Bones Guilde to HTML
- Beginning
HTML
- HTML
Goodies
NOTE:
If, for any reason, you miss class this week without permission
of the instructor, you must either make arrangements to take
the necessary tutorials at the STAR Lab at the Johnson Center
or drop the class (the technical skillset is essential to successfully
completing the course).
Online Readings (for NEXT week):
NYTimes: The
Granddaddy of Blabbermouths
NYTimes' William Safire: Blog
When
Bloggers Commit Journalism
CJR:
The New Amateur Journalists Weigh In
This
week's focus: On Tuesday, all about
online writing (The
Elements of Online Storytelling), blogs and RSS feeds.
On Thursday, I hope you will attend the Communication
Department's Communication Day events from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in
Dewberry Hall of the Johnson Center. Keynote speaker at 12:15
p.m. is Jennifer Carroll (left photo), vice president
for New Media at Gannett.
VIDEO CONFERENCE #2 on Thursday in 455 Innovation
Hall (336IH is the flowover room): Former Vice
President and presidential candidate Walter
Mondale
(center photo); historian Doris
Kearns Goodwin (right
photo) Times to be announced.
Show and tell:
Al's
Morning Meeting
CyberJournalist.net
Teaching
Online Journalism
Ted's
Take (Ted Leonsis)
E-Media
Tidbits
Romenesko
Arts & Letters
Daily
PressThink
by Jay Rosen
J.D.
Lasica's weblog
Adrian Holovaty's
weblog
Mike Wenland's
weblog
Strange
Attractor
Steve
Yelvington
I Want Media
paidContent
Slashdot
Triple
Crankset
William
Shatner's weblog
Online Readings (for NEXT week):
The
Six Rules of Webwriting
Writing
for the Web
Better
Googling: Things You Didn't Know Google Does
This
week's focus: On Tuesday, constructing
databases with Joanne Goldberg and Claudia
Holland of Fenwick Library.
VIDEO CONFERENCE #3
on Thursday in 455 Innovation Hall (336IH is the flowover
room): Janet
H. Brown, executive director of the Commission
on Presidential Debates.
Online Reading (for NEXT week):
Creating Your Website/Content Strategy
Scrolling
vs. Paging Web Sites
 This
week's focus: On Tuesday, innovation
in new media with none other than the Innovation Editor of Congressional
Quarterly, Ken
Sands.
 VIDEO
CONFERENCE #3 on Thursday in 455 Innovation Hall (336IH
is the flowover room): Brit
Hume, FoxNews.
Resources:
Washington
Post Camera Works
National Press
Photographers Association
Photography Show-and-Tell:
MSNBC.com: Blood
and Honey by Ron Haviv
MSNBC.com: The
Year in Pictures 2007
MSNBC.com: The
Year in Pictures 2006
MSNBC.com: The
Year in Pictures 2005
MSNBC.com: The
Year in Pictures 2004
MSNBC.com:
The Year in Pictures 2003
MSNBC.com: The
Year in Pictures 2001
 This
week's focus: Online
storytelling, multimedia and writing for online media with
Joel
Sucherman, Executive Producer, USATODAY.com.
Online Readings
(for NEXT week): Editing
Jakob
Nielsen: How Users Read on the Web
Jakob
Nielsen: Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web)
This
week's focus: On Tuesday, Rob
Curley, vice president for New
Media at Washington
Post-Newsweek Interactive, will be with for an extended class
(stay as long as you can). On Thursday, our mid-term exam will
give you the opportunity to demonstrae the skills you have learned
and practiced for the first seven weeks of the semester.
WEEK
8: SPRING BREAK / March 8-16
WEEK
9/ March 18 & 20
Lecture
and discussion:
Guest speaker:
Lab time:
WEEK
10 / March 25 & 27
Lecture
and discussion:
Guest speaker:
Lab time:
Online Readings (for NEXT week): Credibility
and Standards
The
Story That (Supposedly) Legitimized Cyberjournalism
PoynterOnline:
E-Mail Interview Advice
When Breaking News Becomes Routine, It's Time to Raise the Bar
Credibility Show-and-Tell:
St. Petersburg Times: You
Pick the Banner
WEEK
11 / April 3 & 5
Guest Speaker: Thursday, March 29, Andrew
Nachison, Director, the Media Center, American
Press Institute.
Final project
reminder: This will be a multiple-media presentation that
combines what you've learned. You'll select a news story to cover,
and you'll gather all the elements -- perhaps pictures, video,
audio, data -- needed to do a great job of telling that story
online on your website. First draft due: April 15.
Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 22/24
(and April 29/May 1 as necessary).
WEEK
12 / April 10 & 12
Lecture
and discussion:
Guest speaker:
Lab time:
Final project reminder: This will be
a multiple-media presentation that combines what you've learned.
You'll select a news story to cover, and you'll gather all the
elements -- perhaps pictures, video, audio, data -- needed to
do a great job of telling that story online on your website. First
draft due: April 15.
Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 22/24
(and April 29/May 1 as necessary).
WEEK
13 / April 17 & 19
Lecture
and discussion:
Guest speaker:
Lab time:
Final project
reminder: This will be a multiple-media presentation that
combines what you've learned. You'll select a news story to cover,
and you'll gather all the elements -- perhaps pictures, video,
audio, data -- needed to do a great job of telling that story
online on your website. First draft due: April 15.
Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 22/24
(and April 29/May 1 as necessary).
Online Readings (for NEXT week): YOUR Career
PoynterOnline:
Which Diploma's Better?
PoynterOnline
on A Foot in the Door: The Best way to get Hired?
PoynterOnline:
The Great Shoe-Leather Tour
WEEK
14 / April 24 & 26
Final
project reminder: This will be a multiple-media presentation
that combines what you've learned. You'll select a news story
to cover, and you'll gather all the elements -- perhaps pictures,
video, audio, data -- needed to do a great job of telling that
story online on your website. First draft due: April 15.
Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 22/24
(and April 29/May 1 as necessary).
WEEK
15 / May 1 & 3 (final week)
Final project
reminder: This will be a multiple-media presentation that
combines what you've learned. You'll select a news story to cover,
and you'll gather all the elements -- perhaps pictures, video,
audio, data -- needed to do a great job of telling that story
online on your website. First draft due: April 15.
Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 22/24
(and April 29/May 1 as necessary).
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