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Session 12

12/1

  **WEEK 12 (12/3 - 12/11)**

icon Video Lecture for Week 12

This is our 'lecture' for Week 12.

Please make time to view it early in the week!

icon ENG 208 Week 12 Task List

icon Blog Asg. #5 - Final Course Reflection- is DUE on FRI. 12/11 (11:59 pm)

On your WordPress blog, GRADED DUE FRI. 12/11 (11:59 pm)

icon Presentation: Intro. to 21st-Century Digital Journalism Careers

icon Reading: "Superpowers: The Digital Skills Media Leaders Say Newsrooms Need Going Forward"

This in-depth study of 21st-century media careers is essential reading based on an extensive study of digital (and more traditional) newsrooms.

icon Online Activity: Reading Questions on "Superpowers: The Digital Skills Media Leaders Say Newsrooms Need Going Forward"

(Link to e-text is above)

On Google Forms, GRADED, DUE FRI. 12/11 (11:59 pm)

Session 11

11/24

  **WEEK 11 (11/24 - 12/3)**

icon Video Lecture for Week 11

This is our 'lecture' for Week 11.

icon ENG 208 Week 11 Task List

icon Formal Journalism Asg. "” FINAL PROJECT PRELIM. VERSION is DUE on 12/1

This PDF describes the FINAL PROJECT "” a Profile of a Person

A preliminary version is due on your WordPress blog on TUE. 12/1 (11:59 pm)

icon Blog Asg. #4 - Responding to a Data Visualization - is DUE on THU. 12/3 (11:59 pm)

This next Blog Assignment is to look in more depth at one example of a "˜professional' data visualization and to think critically and carefully about what it does, how it works, and how it was created.

On your WordPress blog, GRADED DUE THU. 12/3 (11:59 pm)

icon Presentation: Twitter and Social Media for Journalists

icon Sample Photo for Twitter Online Activity

icon Online Tutorial: Twitter (and TweetDeck) for Journalists Quick Start

This Online Activity is NOT graded -- but the Screencast walks you through several 'use cases' for Twitter and journalism today.

icon Presentation: Citizen Journalism, Social Journalism & Hyperlocal Journalism

icon Reading: "Citizen Journalism and the Public Sphere," Ch. 6, Social Media for Journalists, Course Pack, pp. 292-316

This is e-text of this week's reading (also in the Course Pack)

icon Online Activity: Reading Questions on "Citizen Journalism and the Public Sphere"

(Link to e-text is above)

On Google Forms, GRADED, DUE THU. 12/3

Session 10

11/17

  **WEEK 10 (11/17-11/24)**

icon Video Lecture for Week 10

This is our 'lecture' for Week 10.

Please make time to view it early in the week!

icon ENG 208 Week 10 Task List

icon Formal Journalism Asg. "” FINAL PROJECT PRELIM. VERSION is DUE on 12/1

This PDF describes the FINAL PROJECT "” a Profile of a Person

A preliminary version is due on your WordPress blog on TUE. 12/1 (11:59 pm)

icon Blog Asg. #4 - Responding to a Data Visualization - is DUE on THU. 12/3 (11:59 pm)

This next Blog Assignment is to look in more depth at one example of a "˜professional' data visualization and to think critically and carefully about what it does, how it works, and how it was created.

On your WordPress blog, GRADED DUE THU. 12/3 (11:59 pm)

icon Humans of New York

Stuck for an idea for a personal profile? 'Humans of New York' can give you some ideas.

icon Presentation: Building Digital Audiences & Intro. to Metrics and SEO

icon Reading #1: "Building a Digital Audience for News," Ch. 9, Journalism Next, pp. 271-291

icon Online Activity: Reading Questions on "Building a Digital Audience for News"

(Link to e-text is above)

On Google Forms, GRADED, DUE 11/24

icon Reading #2: Franklin Foer's "When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism," Course Pack, pp. 271-291

Also available 'live' at The Atlantic here: https://theatln.tc/2wpXIzw

icon Online Activity: Reading Questions on Franklin Foer's "When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism"

(Link to e-text is above)

On Google Forms, GRADED, DUE 11/24

Session 9

11/10

  **WEEK 9 (5/11-5/17)**

icon Video Lecture for Week 9

This is our 'lecture' for Week 9.

Please make time to view it early in the week!

icon ENG 208 Week 9 Task List

icon Formal Journalism Asg. "” FINAL PROJECT PRELIM. VERSION is DUE on 12/1

This PDF describes the FINAL PROJECT "” a Profile of a Person

A preliminary version is due on your WordPress blog on TUE. 12/1 (11:59 pm)

icon Blog Asg. #3 - Final Project 'Pitch' - is DUE on TUE. 11/17

On your WordPress blog, GRADED DUE THU. 11/17 (11:59 pm)

icon Reading: "Working with Video," pp. 161-188 in the Course Pack

icon "A Beginner's Guide to Taking Great Video on Your Phone," by Terry Sullivan (NYT)

This is a how-to guide to getting started taking video with your phone from the NYT

icon Online Activity: Reading Questions on "Working with Video" and Exploring Video Examples

(Link to e-text is above)

On your WordPress blog, DUE TUE. 11/17 (11:59 pm)

icon Presentation: Introduction to Data Journalism (with Tableau)

icon Online Activity: Exploring Data Visualizations

This guided activity lets you explore a curated set of examples of data visualizations which present complex datasets using multimedia (and sometimes interactivity) that can reach readers like never before.

On your WordPress blog, DUE TUE. 11/17 (11:59 pm)

Session 8

11/3

icon Video Lecture for Week 8

This is our 'lecture' for Week 8.

Please make time to view it early in the week!

icon ENG 208 Week 8 Task List

icon Formal Journalism Asg. "” FINAL PROJECT PRELIM. VERSION is DUE on 12/1

This PDF describes the FINAL PROJECT "” a Profile of a Person

A preliminary version is due on your WordPress blog on TUE. 12/1 (11:59 pm)

icon Samples of Student "˜Profiles of Person' Pieces

You can browse these examples to see what other students have done for this class. (We realize it will be difficult to arrange for a virtual interview.) CHOOSE THE OP ED COLUMN for an easier final project.

icon Blog Asg. #3 - Final Project 'Pitch' - is DUE on TUE. 11/17

On your WordPress blog, GRADED DUE THU. 11/17 (11:59 pm)

icon Reading for the Week: "Classification of Digital News Packages," pp. 190-221 in the Course Pack

Concentrate on the sections on the Triangle of categories pp. 204+

icon Online Activity: Reading Questions on "Classification of Digital News Packages"

(Link to e-text is above)

On Google Forms, GRADED, DUE TUE. 11/10 (11:59 pm)

icon Online Activity: Exploring Digital News Packages

On Google Forms, GRADED, DUE TUE. 11/10 (11:59 pm)