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Week 1 - Jan. 22

Week 2 - Jan. 27/29

Week 3 - Feb. 3/5

Week 4 - Feb. 10/12

Week 5 - Feb. 17/19

Week 6 - Feb. 24/26

Week 7 - March 3/5

Week 8 - Spring Break

Week 9 - March 17/19

Week 10 - March 24/26

Week 11 - March 31/April 2

Week 12 - April 7/9

Week 13 - April 14/16

Week 14 - April21/23

Weeks 15 & 16-
April 28/30/May 5

 
 
 
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COURSE SCHEDULE

WEEK 1 / January 22

Introductions: Who am I ... who is our TAP assistant, Isaac Pacheco, editor of AMVETS magazine ... 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 hand in your completed technology survey. We'll familiarize ourselves with the class blog and how we'll use it. We'll discuss the grading sheet.

We'll talk about the STAR Lab in 229 Johnson Center and take a tour next week if time permits.

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:
2008 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


WEEK 2 / January 27 &29

Tuesday tutorial: GMU copyright officer Claudia Holland on copyright and fair use (and all about Creative Commons).

Video conference #1 on Thursday in 455 Innovation Hall (336IH is the flow-over room): Robert Schlesinger, author of "White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters."

Resources:
The Bare Bones Guilde to HTML
Beginning HTML
HTML Goodies

 

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


WEEK 3 / Feb. 3 & 5

Tuesday tutorial: A Dreamweaver tutorial: Our TAP assistant, Isaac Pacheco, 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, finishingwith 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 may 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 PatriotWeb.)


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 deadlines for completion of these elements of your website, most before Spring Break; failure to meet them will result in losing grading points (ouch!).

Thursday tutorial: Sonja Eberly of United Press International on how to post your stories on UPI-U ... Tammi Marcoullier of Publish2 on link journalism.

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

WEEK 4 / Feb. 10 & 12



Tuesday tutorial: Jim Ioveno, Online Editor of News4 Washington.

Thursday video conference #2: TBA.

Thursday tutorial: Writing or the web, web design, Twitter, Flickr and other fun programs (The Elements of Online Storytelling), blogs and RSS feeds.

Online Reading (for NEXT week):
Creating Your Website/Content Strategy
Scrolling vs. Paging Web Sites

WEEK 5 / Feb. 17 & 19

Tuesday tutorial: Mark Potts, RecoveringJournalist.com.

Thursday video conference #3: Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo.

On Tuesday, 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.

Resources:
Washington Post Camera Works
National Press Photographers Association

Photography Show-and-Tell:
MSNBC.com: The Year in Pictures 2008
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

WEEK 6 / Feb. 24 & 26

Tuesday tutorial: Online storytelling, multimedia and writing for online media with Joel Sucherman, Executive Producer, USATODAY.com.

Thursday video conference: Professor Steve Farnsworth, author of "Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves."

Online Readings (for NEXT week): Editing
Jakob Nielsen: How Users Read on the Web

Jakob Nielsen: Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web)

WEEK 7 / March 3 & 5

Tuesday tutorial: Brad Kalbfeld, former Managing Editor/Broadcast for the Associated Press.

Thursday video conference: TBA.

WEEK 8: SPRING BREAK / March 9-15

WEEK 9/ March 17 & 19

Tuesday tutorial:

Thursday video conference: TBA.


WEEK 10 / March 24 & 26

Tuesday tutorial:

Thursday video conference: TBA.

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 / March 31 & April 2



Tuesday tutorial:
Thursday, April2, Andrew Nachison, founder and CEO of iFOCOS.

Thursday video conference: TBA.

WEEK 12 / April 7 & 9

Tuesday tutorial:

Thursday video conference: TBA.

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 16.
Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 28/30 and May 5.


WEEK 13 / April 14 & 16

Tuesday tutorial:

Thursday video conference: TBA.

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 16.
Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 28/30 and May 5.

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 21 & 23

Tuesday tutorial:

Thursday video conference: TBA.

Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 28/30 and May 5.


WEEKS 15-16 / April 28 & 30 & May 5

Final project due (in-class show-and-tell): April 28/30 and May 5.