COURSE
SCHEDULE
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
 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
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
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
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
 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)
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. |
