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JOUR 4872-002

8 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. F

Armory #201

JOUR 5872-001

Spring 2009

J. Richard Stevens, Ph.D.

Schedule

Class

Day

Date

Topic

Readings

Due?

1

F

1/16

Course Introduction/Syllabus

 

First Blog Due

 

 

 

Lab: Ethical Examples

 

First Day Survey

2

F

1/23

What is the Web?/HTML

Foust 2 & 3

Ethics Blog Due; Extra Credit Obama coverage due

 

 

 

Lab: HTML 1.0

 

 

3

F

1/30

Digital Journalism/ Multimedia Practices/Blogging a story

Foust 1& 4; McAdams 1

 

 

 

 

Lab: HTML 1.0

 

 

4

F

2/6

Online Reporting/ Writing for the Web

Foust 5 & 7, McAdams 1

 

 

 

 

Lab: HTML/FTP/Tables

 

 

5

F

2/13

Links, Pages and Text

Foust 8; McPhee

Personal Web Site Due

 

 

 

Lab: HTML Exercises

 

 

6

F

2/20

Multimedia Design & Interactivity

Foust 9 & 10; McAdams 2

Project Proposals Due

 

 

 

Lab: Photoshop Gallery

 

 

7

F

2/27

Usability Testing, WYSIWYG design

Neilsen's Usability 101;
Bad Designs; Interaction terminology

 

 

 

 

Lab: Embedding A/V, Online forms, Graphic Rollovers

 

 

8

F

3/6

Mid-Term Exam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

F

3/13

ImageMaps, CSS, Audio/Video

 

Extra Lab poll;

 

 

 

Lab: Final Cut 101

 

 

10

F

3/20

Mobile Journalism;
Geographic Journalism

Honan; Smithee; Cumming;

Personal Web Modifications Due; State of the News Industry blog due

 

 

 

Project Meetings

 

 

 

F

3/27

No Class - Spring Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

F

4/3

Interactive Media

 

 

 

 

 

Lab: McAdams Lesson 1, 2 & 3; Project Meetings

 

 

12

F

4/10

New Media Law

Foust 11; Brodsky

 

 

 

 

Lab: McAdams Lesson 3, 4, 5 & 6;

 

 

13

F

4/17

Flash Training

Foust 11

Brodsky Blog

 

 

 

Lab: McAdams Lesson 7 & 8;

 

 

14

F

4/24

New Media Ethics

Foust 11

 

 

W

4/29

Project Deadline - midnight

 

Projects Due, Source Solicitations Due

15

F

5/1

Project Presentations;
Industry Challenges and Opportunities

 

Project Reports Due

 

 

 

Lab: McAdams Lesson 9 & 10

Foust 12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

5/6

Final Exam, 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

 

 

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