***Your website is due by Monday May 6 @ 11:59 p.m. I will be in our classroom CR 207 on Monday May 6 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. to help you finish up.*** As you put the finishing touches on your website, consider these tips: Review the assignment guidelines and grading rubric to ensure [...]

Getting Started Editing Adobe Premiere Elements has been installed our classroom, CR 207, as well as the IT building. But that’s it. Keep in mind that the IT building is open 24 hours. I am giving you the rest of the class to work on your video projects. Attendance is still required, unless you’ve already [...]

There are some major problems with Adobe Premiere Elements, the video editing software that I will cover in class. These problems should be resolved by next Mon. Apr. 29, but until then, I cannot instruct you on video editing in Adobe Premiere Elements. Today we will get into pairs and brainstorm about story ideas. The [...]

Video Storytelling The ability to tell a good story with video is a difficult yet important skill for journalists and communicators to learn. Video is not just on TV anymore — you can find video stories online and on mobile devices as well. You’ll work in teams of two for this project. Let’s partner up! [...]

Now that you know more about how to use social media for storytelling, we are going to live-report a newsworthy event using Twitter. Let’s take a look at the Social Media Project assignment guidelines. It will be helpful to do a practice run first. Let’s watch Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech. First, open a [...]

Twitter and social media are not only for self-absorbed celebrities, social-butterfly teenagers, and teaching-absorbed professors communicating with their students (like me). Twitter and social media are for you. The aspiring journalist, sports commentator, marketing executive, advertising director, public relations manager. You can use Twitter and social media to help you create a presence and garner [...]

Nikki Finnesand and Jamie Hageman Hannah Cox and Kelsey Tramp Alex Barrett and Clinton Boutelle John Denega Hailey Hawkes and Jessica Romero Josh Geiger and Chris Anselmo Chase Harmelink and Mady Gerard Ashlee Williams and Andee Novotny Nikkita Miller and Edward Timmons Kelsey Brinkerhoff and Lillian Palmer Trevor Andersen and Brittany Rehm Marqueston Huff and [...]

Creating an information graphic requires the coordination of many experts — reporters, editors, illustrators and design artists, statisticians, and even people who are computer scientists and understand databases. As a reporter, you should be thinking about if your story is appropriate to visualize. Are there any concepts or data that you address in your story [...]

Because most of you expressed interest in creating a photo gallery for your websites, this is the next topic we’ll cover. I have created three examples of a photo gallery that use HTML5 and CSS3. There is no knowledge of HTML5 programming necessary, it only uses HTML5 and CSS3, which you all should know. Let’s [...]

Thank you for your feedback about what you’d like to learn. Here are the results: There was an overwhelming response to learn how to create photo slideshows. I will find a way to teach that. Next, there was a tie to (1) draw, paint, and write text using the canvas feature, and (2) embed video. [...]