Essentials
- Instructor: Ed Peaco
- E-mail: epeaco@missouristate.edu Home phone: 417-882-5749
- Office hours: By arrangement. Call or e-mail me, and we’ll find a time
- within 1-2 days, and a place that is convenient and appropriate.
- Class meets: 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., MW, in Craig 338
- Final exam: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, May 11
- The Bear Claw: Online magazine created for this course.
- JRN300 Resources: Blog with course documents and assignments. You are reading it now!
About this course
Objectives
- Understand the writing techniques that work best on the Web.
- Learn multimedia skills that writers use today at newspapers and magazines.
- Attempt to create an interactive environment that will pose challenges more meaningful than mastering any device or software.
Learning activities
- Use journalistic values to make sound decisions about how to craft stories online. Use the right tools for each job.
- Become a versatile writer, creating stories, updates and opinion posts.
- Report a story using interactive resources that exist only online.
- Shoot photos with a digital camera. Edit with Photoshop and iPhoto.
- Add photos to blog posts. Create photo galleries.
- Gather audio with a digital recorder. Edit in Audacity. Create clips and podcasts.
- Combine photos and sound using iMovie. Create audio slideshows.
- Create your own niche for digital storytelling throughout the semester.
- Experience a collegial atmosphere among contributors to The Bear Claw.
- If you discover something, share it. Others will prosper; you’ll lose nothing.
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