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This document provides lessons and tips for teaching online journalism skills to students. It discusses creating mobile-first news sites that are constantly updated with social integration and multimedia. It provides ideas for mobile, 24-hour news, multimedia, experimental, and social media lessons. Some examples include having students report remotely using apps, editing short news updates, shooting and editing brief videos, finding new platforms to cover news, and writing mock tweets about events. The document also offers tips for shooting and editing video and audio interviews, such as planning ahead, testing equipment, capturing b-roll, and editing tightly. Overall, it aims to teach students the skills needed to engage in digital and mobile journalism.
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- 2. What do good sites do? I’m asking ...
- 3. A modern news site • Mobile first, not just mobile friendly ... or mobile maybe • Constantly and consistently updated • Social integration • Multimedia - video, photos, audio and design • Experimental with new tools/ideas • Reporters who understand what digital means
- 4. Mobile lesson ideas • Have students examine mobile apps and write essay or a just a list on what they like and dislike and why • Have students create a free app: http://mobile.conduit.com/ • Have students report remotely using WordPress App, camera app that comes with phone, social media • Have students come up with a paper “wireframe” of an app - work in groups and have them present.
- 5. 24-hour news lessons • Run a mock news event usingYouTube videos and have students blog from them.They should update with time stamps and fake Twitter updates. • Throw students ethical questions and see how they react as a group.Would they post scanner traffic? • Have student edit each other’s short news-alert-style updates. • Time students on writing. Give them 5 minutes to write three paragraph news stories. Speed and accuracy.
- 6. Multimedia lessons • Have them shoot and edit a short video - less than 1:30. • Have them dissect the printed newspaper and discuss what types of multimedia could go with each story • Have them do an NPR-style audio story • When they do photos, have them put together a story arc. Soundslides is good for adding audio component to it. • Critique news websites (and non-news sites)
- 7. Experimental lessons • Have students find a social or news platform (non- traditional) and have them write an essay on how they could use it to cover a topic in the news. How could Pinterest be used to cover the Olympics? Is there a good audio program for sharing news about the school football team? • Have them make a podcast using SoundCloud
- 8. Social lessons • If you don’t have access to Twitter in your school, they are just 140-character sentences. Have them write mock tweets surrounding a press conference or a sporting event, etc. • Encourage them to share news on their own Twitter accounts.Teach them the importance of a serious social presence. • Have discussions about how they get their news, what they trust and why. • Ethical debate on when it’s OK to share information.
- 9. Questions for you • Have you watched any web video in the past 24 hours? • How about an online video by a news organization? • Why not? Is it because we get this? • 60 percent of all online web traffic is viewing video • 37 billion video minutes per month
- 10. Why so bad?
- 11. The importance of audio
- 12. Preparing to shoot • Plan first - come up with a goal for your video • Write out an outline - what do you need, who should you interview? What equipment do you need? • Plan for b-roll - a lot of b-roll. Six minutes for every minute you use of film. • Test equipment ahead of time - get a friend to help • E-mail/call subjects if possible - be clear what you’ll do
- 13. The interview • Dress appropriately • Hook up mic early and test again • Find a quiet area - be mindful of echoes, wind, cars, etc. • Talk to the subject for a while with camera set up but not rolling. • Ask people to repeat information - it’s OK!
- 14. Shooting • Use a tripod or a monopod - or a wall or a fence ... • Be sure lighting is how you want it - film makes shadows deeper, overexposures brighter • Use natural, diffused light if possible • Capture that audio - lavalier mic is often the way to go • Use the rule of thirds
- 15. Editing• Don’t use sparkles! • Professionals use Avid or Final Cut Pro. Use what works • Keep them short - less than two minutes if possible • Edit tightly even within those two minutes • Edit with pacing in mind • Professionals use Avid or Final Cut Pro. Use what works • Keep them short - less than two minutes if possible • Edit tightly even within those two minutes • Edit with pacing in mind
- 16. Examples • Now THIS is watchable • Local story - note use of audio and b-roll • Captures audio, lighting, storyline together to tell a complete story: The natural light bulb • Newspapers as TV studios
- 17. photos • For a photo series, you need at least five photos, and a story • It should contain a beginning, a middle and an end • Get a variety of shots - details, wide shots, scene-setters • Take more photos than you will use • Take your time to write great captions - a lost art. ID subjects! • Again, get the subject comfortable before shooting
- 18. Techniques • Again, lighting, shakiness (need a tripod!) and rule of thirds • Planning ahead works well for a photo series • You can use software to put photos into a slideshow, but great photo series should be able to stand without fancy effects • Audio slideshows can bring them to life • Smartphones are getting pretty good
- 19. AUDIO • Storytelling is king - people aren’t going to listen unless you really make it worth their time, but you can get their time • Audio can be captured via smartphone or through a digital audio recorder • A quiet room, a comfortable conversation • Edit in audacity - add bumper music/intro • Awesome software - SoundCloud, iTunes, audioboo