Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Oklahoman circumvents iTunes store, keeps revenues
Posted by Damon Kiesow at 6:15 AM on Nov. 16, 2010
The Oklahoman launched a new iPad app last month, and Apple will not be getting the revenue it generates. Equally important, as David Thompson points out, the newspaper retains its direct relationship with every consumer who buys either a single copy or a subscription to the app's content.
Thompson, the president of OPUBCO Communications Group and publisher of The Oklahoman, explains in this edited e-mail interview how the newspaper developed the new app, how they are handling subscriptions and circumventing the iTunes store, and why a direct customer relationship is so critical.
Damon Kiesow: Can you briefly describe the features of the app?
 David Thompson |
Monday, November 15, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Bennett's Matched Action
This .mov file was compressed from 247MB to 16MB with QuickTime Conversion using medium quality and 400x300 size:
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Restaurant Videos
Crain's Chicago Business
Carnevale, Chicago's West Loop
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Pizza Junction, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Muslim Project Filing Instructions
Place your edited .MOV, .DOC and .JPG files in the Drop Box folder of our class file server:
afp://gcj.ou.edu/JMC3003_Vieth
(That's the icon that should show up on your desktop when you log in from the classroom.)
Here are the steps to getting videos in the right file format for ROUTES:
afp://gcj.ou.edu/JMC3003_Vieth
(That's the icon that should show up on your desktop when you log in from the classroom.)
Here are the steps to getting videos in the right file format for ROUTES:
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ray Bribiesca
Our guest speaker on Monday, Nov. 1, will be award-winning 60 Minutes producer and videographer Ray Bribiesca.
Here's a link to the latest story Ray did in Afghanistan with correspondent Lara Logan and a wonderful interview with Ray about his career:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20017555-10391709.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Here's his biography, in his own words:
"I have spent over 46 years of my life in the television world, in both news and production, and I love it! I am proud to be a member of the 60 Minutes staff and to work for CBS News.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Why Are You Voting? Tell Us in Video
By THE NEW YORK TIMES What issue is driving you to vote this year?
With just over two weeks remaining before Election Day, we’re asking you to create videos that explain, in your own words, what issue or event has the most influence on your decision at the polls (or the mailbox).
Click here for more.
With just over two weeks remaining before Election Day, we’re asking you to create videos that explain, in your own words, what issue or event has the most influence on your decision at the polls (or the mailbox).
Click here for more.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Muslims in Oklahoma: Sarah Sullivan
Sarah Sullivan is a friendly young woman. She's a senior at the University of Oklahoma, working hard toward a major in pre-dental hygeine and religious studies. She was raised Southern Baptist, having lived in both Texas and Oklahoma. She is an extrovert person who's not afraid to speak her mind but, is happy to help others. Her positive attitude is contagious, and she has a bright smile. Sarah sounds like the typical all-American. Yet, she wears a scarf around her head and neck called a Hijab, and she prays five times a day, at least. Sarah is Muslim, and people have been quick to let this fact blind them from the individual that she is.
Sarah has always had religion in her life. In Wichita Falls, Texas, she was raised Southern Baptist and was a practicing Christian for most of her life.
"When I say conservative, I mean very conservative" says Sarah of her background. "In high school I was titled a saint, angel, prude, because I was the girl that didn't agree with sex, drugs, drinking, all that stuff."
Saturday, October 16, 2010
WV Conferences
Here's the lineup for our one-on-one conferences.
Monday, Oct. 18
• 3:20 Scott Bedgood
• 3:40 Katie Hammock
• 4:00 Kalem Wedemyer
Wednesday, Oct. 20
• 3:20 Matt Gilroy
• 3:40 Lance Reaves
• 4:00 Jake McClure
Wednesday, Oct. 27
• 3:00 Page Grossman
• 3:20 Tyler Aljoe
• 3:40 Garrett Duty
• 4:00 Tyler Thomas
Wednesday, Nov. 3
• 3:20 Kasey Chapman
• 3:40 Ame Aziere
• 4:00 Michael Acker
Monday, Oct. 18
• 3:20 Scott Bedgood
• 3:40 Katie Hammock
• 4:00 Kalem Wedemyer
Wednesday, Oct. 20
• 3:20 Matt Gilroy
• 3:40 Lance Reaves
• 4:00 Jake McClure
Wednesday, Oct. 27
• 3:00 Page Grossman
• 3:20 Tyler Aljoe
• 3:40 Garrett Duty
• 4:00 Tyler Thomas
Wednesday, Nov. 3
• 3:20 Kasey Chapman
• 3:40 Ame Aziere
• 4:00 Michael Acker
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Rebecca Cooper
Our guest lecturer on Wednesday, Oct. 13, will be Rebecca Cooper, anchor/reporter for ABC 7 in Washington D.C. Rebecca is a native Oklahoman and a former aide to David Boren when he served in the U.S. Senate. She'll talk to us about the growing role of multimedia content in television news. Please take a moment to read her bio and come to class with some questions in mind.
Bio: http://www.abc7dc.com/talentbios/getbio.cfm?id=86
Washington Business Tonight anchor Rebecca Cooper has been based in Washington for the last two decades, covering the world of politics, national security and finance from the White House, Capitol Hill and the major federal agencies.
Bio: http://www.abc7dc.com/talentbios/getbio.cfm?id=86
Washington Business Tonight anchor Rebecca Cooper has been based in Washington for the last two decades, covering the world of politics, national security and finance from the White House, Capitol Hill and the major federal agencies.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Houda Elyazgi Bio
Houda Elyazgi serves as a senior account executive, managing several accounts, conducting research, writing and developing campaign strategies and planning special events for clients. Elyazgi also oversees Saxum’s Step Up program. In the summer of 2006, Elyazgi interned for U.S. Rep. Tom Cole in Washington, D.C. In December 2007, she interned for Saxum before joining the team full time. Elyazgi graduated with distinctions from The University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s in journalism and mass communications with an emphasis in public relations and a minor in Arabic. During her time in school, Elyazgi served as a Gaylord Ambassador for the Gaylord College of Journalism. She also served on the university’s Honor Council, where she heard cases in academic court. In 2006, Elyazgi was the first recipient of the Mary Ellen Hipp Doyle Scholarship. That same year, Elyazgi was granted the Award of Excellence in the field of Public Relations. Elyazgi is a graduate of N.E.W. Leadership, an award-winning program that educates and encourages women to actively participate in politics and public service. Elyazgi brings a strong passion for nonprofits to the Saxum team. She currently serves on the Oklahoma City Chamber’s Greater Grads committee and is a member of the board of directors of United Way of Norman. She lives in Norman.
Test Your Savvy On Religion
By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Oct. 10, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opinion/10kristof.html?th&emc=th
The New York Times reported recently on a Pew Research Center poll in which religious people turned out to be remarkably uninformed about religion. Almost half of Catholics didn’t understand Communion. Most Protestants didn’t know that Martin Luther started the Reformation. Almost half of Jews didn’t realize Maimonides was Jewish. And atheists were among the best informed about religion.
Oct. 10, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opinion/10kristof.html?th&emc=th
The New York Times reported recently on a Pew Research Center poll in which religious people turned out to be remarkably uninformed about religion. Almost half of Catholics didn’t understand Communion. Most Protestants didn’t know that Martin Luther started the Reformation. Almost half of Jews didn’t realize Maimonides was Jewish. And atheists were among the best informed about religion.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
ONA Online Journalism Awards Student Finalists
Multimedia Feature Presentation, Student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University: SyracuseDiners.com
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: A Seed is Forever
UNC School of Journalism: Living Galapagos
Western Kentucky University Fleischaker-Greene Scholars: Farm to Fork: Investigating Agriculture
Online Video Journalism, Student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University: The Fall Workshop
Knight Center for International Media, School of Communication, University of Miami: My Story, My Goal
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University: SyracuseDiners.com
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: A Seed is Forever
UNC School of Journalism: Living Galapagos
Western Kentucky University Fleischaker-Greene Scholars: Farm to Fork: Investigating Agriculture
Online Video Journalism, Student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University: The Fall Workshop
Knight Center for International Media, School of Communication, University of Miami: My Story, My Goal
Monday, September 27, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Fort Sill Interviews
• Do your troops receive adequate training on how to spot and avoid this kind of IED?
• Were all required precautions taken before embarking on this assignment?
• Are there any steps you can take to avoid similar incidents in the future?
• What can you tell us about the two injured soldiers?
• How much does the squad leader's death weigh on your soldiers as they go out on patrol? Has morale been undermined?
• What action has been taken in response to the Wikileaks disclosure that Staff Sergeant Floyd shot and killed three Afghans?
• Recent reporting has called attention to widespread corruption within the Afghan army and police. How has that affected morale among your soldiers? How can the U.S. hope to prevail in Afghanistan under those circumstances?
• Recent polls show that Afghans in your district have negative opinions about the U.S. mission. Have those feelings complicated your job or endangered your soldiers?
• Recent reports indicate that the Taliban is responsible for increasing opium production and that the profits are being used to provide basic services to citizens. What are your soldiers seeing on the ground, and how badly has this undermined the mission?
• What about reports that marijuana use is widespread among Afghan soldiers and police?
• Why do we need 120,000 troops in Afghanistan?
• Are even more troops needed to prevent incidents like this?
• Do your soldiers support President Obama's policies in Afghanistan?
• Based on what you've seen within your units, is the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy effective?
• Were all required precautions taken before embarking on this assignment?
• Are there any steps you can take to avoid similar incidents in the future?
• What can you tell us about the two injured soldiers?
• How much does the squad leader's death weigh on your soldiers as they go out on patrol? Has morale been undermined?
• What action has been taken in response to the Wikileaks disclosure that Staff Sergeant Floyd shot and killed three Afghans?
• Recent reporting has called attention to widespread corruption within the Afghan army and police. How has that affected morale among your soldiers? How can the U.S. hope to prevail in Afghanistan under those circumstances?
• Recent polls show that Afghans in your district have negative opinions about the U.S. mission. Have those feelings complicated your job or endangered your soldiers?
• Recent reports indicate that the Taliban is responsible for increasing opium production and that the profits are being used to provide basic services to citizens. What are your soldiers seeing on the ground, and how badly has this undermined the mission?
• What about reports that marijuana use is widespread among Afghan soldiers and police?
• Why do we need 120,000 troops in Afghanistan?
• Are even more troops needed to prevent incidents like this?
• Do your soldiers support President Obama's policies in Afghanistan?
• Based on what you've seen within your units, is the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy effective?
Saturday, September 18, 2010
"When a Fringe Figure Becomes News"
In the age of Facebook and YouTube, how should the news media have responded to Terry Jones and his plan to burn the Koran?
By Rick Perlstein
New York Times, Sept. 10, 2010
The problem is not the Web. Anti-JFK rallies "revealing" to every school child in Orange County, California that Communists planned to colonize the United States by the year 1970 drew bigger crowds than Tea Parties today, with nary a blogger among them.
The problem is that elite media gatekeepers have abandoned their moral mandate to stigmatize uncivil discourse. Instead, too many outlets reward it. In fact, it is an ironic token of the ideological confusions of our age that they do so in the service of upholding what they understand to be a cornerstone of civility: the notion that every public question must be framed in terms of two equal and opposite positions, the "liberal" one and the "conservative" one, each to be afforded equal dignity, respect — and (the more crucial currency) equal space. This has made the most mainstream of media outlets comically easy marks for those actively working to push public discourse to extremes.
Don't blame the minister and his bait-and-switch bonfire either. Once upon a time anticommunist book burnings and threats of book burnings were not unheard of. The difference is that Associated Press reporters did not feel obliged to show up. That shift in news values, not the rise of the Internet, is the most profound way that times have changed.
In 1961 Time magazine called these "Ultras" alien and strange, and pronounced, "Wherever [they] arise, they cause domestic acrimony," and judged they should be "wooed back into normal channels of political expression." That last clause was perhaps a bit too much editorializing.
But by 1995, however, any hint of stigma had devolved into slack perplexity: "Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America?" was a cover headline that year. Fifteen years later a bedazzled Time dropped the skepticism, crowning Glenn Beck as "the hottest thing in the political-rant racket….A gifted entrepreneur of angst….tireless, funny, self-deprecating," who "has lit up the 5PM slot in a way never thought possible by industry watchers." Such treatment of people who distort things for a living cannot but push the bounds of permissible ideological performance art in ever more extreme directions.
There are responsible news stories to be written about people like this. On February 24, 2009, President Obama delivered the speech unveiling his economic stimulus package, renewing his promise for middle class tax cuts. The next day Rush Limbaugh reviewed it, introducing his now-frequent proposition that whatever the president says he "means the opposite in most cases." Rush Limbaugh has 20 million listeners every day, many of whom call themselves Limbaugh's "dittoheads." He teaches one of every 10 adult Americans to automatically disbelieve anything their nation's chief Constitutional officer says, as an axiom. This is news, maybe front page news.
Likewise, just the other day, talker Steve Malzberg of WOR — a 50,000 watt heritage station with a weekly program hosted by Mayor Bloomberg — carried out a sympathetic interview with the book-burning pastor himself, with callers chiming in with approval for the spirit of his proposed act. That broadcast in itself is more newsworthy than whatever it is the minister's 50 followers did or didn't end up doing down in Gainesville — even if presented, as the AP promised to its client papers, "in a clear and balanced context."
The coverage is already the context -- and was a priori unbalanced. The genie is of course already out of the bottle; after a certain point, news is news. Editors should reflect, though, for the future. "We're sick and tired of being ignored," a Beck follower was quoted in a cover story in Time magazine. Yet a Time/CNN poll found only 5 percent of a nationwide sample had participated in Tea Party events. This is not balanced coverage. It is coverage distorted grotesquely beyond measure.
By Rick Perlstein
New York Times, Sept. 10, 2010
The problem is not the Web. Anti-JFK rallies "revealing" to every school child in Orange County, California that Communists planned to colonize the United States by the year 1970 drew bigger crowds than Tea Parties today, with nary a blogger among them.
The problem is that elite media gatekeepers have abandoned their moral mandate to stigmatize uncivil discourse. Instead, too many outlets reward it. In fact, it is an ironic token of the ideological confusions of our age that they do so in the service of upholding what they understand to be a cornerstone of civility: the notion that every public question must be framed in terms of two equal and opposite positions, the "liberal" one and the "conservative" one, each to be afforded equal dignity, respect — and (the more crucial currency) equal space. This has made the most mainstream of media outlets comically easy marks for those actively working to push public discourse to extremes.
Don't blame the minister and his bait-and-switch bonfire either. Once upon a time anticommunist book burnings and threats of book burnings were not unheard of. The difference is that Associated Press reporters did not feel obliged to show up. That shift in news values, not the rise of the Internet, is the most profound way that times have changed.
In 1961 Time magazine called these "Ultras" alien and strange, and pronounced, "Wherever [they] arise, they cause domestic acrimony," and judged they should be "wooed back into normal channels of political expression." That last clause was perhaps a bit too much editorializing.
But by 1995, however, any hint of stigma had devolved into slack perplexity: "Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America?" was a cover headline that year. Fifteen years later a bedazzled Time dropped the skepticism, crowning Glenn Beck as "the hottest thing in the political-rant racket….A gifted entrepreneur of angst….tireless, funny, self-deprecating," who "has lit up the 5PM slot in a way never thought possible by industry watchers." Such treatment of people who distort things for a living cannot but push the bounds of permissible ideological performance art in ever more extreme directions.
There are responsible news stories to be written about people like this. On February 24, 2009, President Obama delivered the speech unveiling his economic stimulus package, renewing his promise for middle class tax cuts. The next day Rush Limbaugh reviewed it, introducing his now-frequent proposition that whatever the president says he "means the opposite in most cases." Rush Limbaugh has 20 million listeners every day, many of whom call themselves Limbaugh's "dittoheads." He teaches one of every 10 adult Americans to automatically disbelieve anything their nation's chief Constitutional officer says, as an axiom. This is news, maybe front page news.
Likewise, just the other day, talker Steve Malzberg of WOR — a 50,000 watt heritage station with a weekly program hosted by Mayor Bloomberg — carried out a sympathetic interview with the book-burning pastor himself, with callers chiming in with approval for the spirit of his proposed act. That broadcast in itself is more newsworthy than whatever it is the minister's 50 followers did or didn't end up doing down in Gainesville — even if presented, as the AP promised to its client papers, "in a clear and balanced context."
The coverage is already the context -- and was a priori unbalanced. The genie is of course already out of the bottle; after a certain point, news is news. Editors should reflect, though, for the future. "We're sick and tired of being ignored," a Beck follower was quoted in a cover story in Time magazine. Yet a Time/CNN poll found only 5 percent of a nationwide sample had participated in Tea Party events. This is not balanced coverage. It is coverage distorted grotesquely beyond measure.
Rick Perlstein is the author of "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" and "Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
State Fair Assignment
For Blog Post 5, due midnight Sunday, Sept. 26:
Check out a camera.
Go to the State Fair.
Find a news or feature story.
Produce a 2-minute video story consisting of one or more interviews.
Include lots of B-roll shots.
Convert your finished video to QuickTime format and post on your news blog.
The State Fair begins Thursday, Sept. 16, and ends Sunday, Sept. 26, the same day your video is due. Gate admission is $8, but it's reduced to $1 on Thursday, Sept. 16, and $2 on Tuesday, Sept. 21. If any of you absolutely cannot make it to the fair, please let me know soonest.
For more information on the State Fair, see http://www.okstatefair.com/.
Check out a camera.
Go to the State Fair.
Find a news or feature story.
Produce a 2-minute video story consisting of one or more interviews.
Include lots of B-roll shots.
Convert your finished video to QuickTime format and post on your news blog.
The State Fair begins Thursday, Sept. 16, and ends Sunday, Sept. 26, the same day your video is due. Gate admission is $8, but it's reduced to $1 on Thursday, Sept. 16, and $2 on Tuesday, Sept. 21. If any of you absolutely cannot make it to the fair, please let me know soonest.
For more information on the State Fair, see http://www.okstatefair.com/.
Photo Package Assignment
For Blog Post 4, due midnight Sunday, Sept. 19, you will post a photo package consisting of at least three photos illustrating a news event or feature subject. The three photos should include a wide-angle (establishing) shot, a medium-angle shot, and at least one close-up. Try to incorporate the photo composition techniques presented by Julie Jones. Use PhotoShop to retouch and resize your photos to 720 pixels for the longest dimension and 72 dpi for the resolution. Write a fat paragraph summarizing what the photos are about. Be sure to include cutlines and a credit line (Photos by Mr. X).
You DO NOT have to report and write a First Five Graphs news story for this blog post. Sources and quotes are optional. Photos with identified human subjects will receive higher grades than photos of buildings and unidentified people.
You DO NOT have to report and write a First Five Graphs news story for this blog post. Sources and quotes are optional. Photos with identified human subjects will receive higher grades than photos of buildings and unidentified people.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Revised Schedule
Sunday, Sept. 12
Due midnight
• Blog Post 3 (FFG & photos)
WEEK 4
Monday, Sept. 13
Discussion/Activity
• Blog Post 3 feedback
• AP Style: numbers, its & it’s
• Final Cut
Wednesday, Sept. 15
Due by class
• Elements Chapter 4 summary
Discussion/Activity
• Presentation 1
The Evolution of Online News: Past, Present, Future
o Team 1—Michael Acker, Tyler Aljoe
o Team 2—Kasey Chapman, Katie Hammock
• Quiz 3
• Elements Chapter 4
• Final Cut
Due midnight
• Blog Post 3 (FFG & photos)
WEEK 4
Monday, Sept. 13
Discussion/Activity
• Blog Post 3 feedback
• AP Style: numbers, its & it’s
• Final Cut
Wednesday, Sept. 15
Due by class
• Elements Chapter 4 summary
Discussion/Activity
• Presentation 1
The Evolution of Online News: Past, Present, Future
o Team 1—Michael Acker, Tyler Aljoe
o Team 2—Kasey Chapman, Katie Hammock
• Quiz 3
• Elements Chapter 4
• Final Cut
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Syracuse Diners Project
This multimedia package was produced by journalism students at Syracuse University.
Click here to see the student project.
Click here to read a story about the project.
Click here to see the student project.
Click here to read a story about the project.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Blogger Tutorial
This online aid will help you set up a Blogger account and set up your News Blog. On the first page, click the "Create a Blog" button:
http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g
http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g
Sample Blogs
Here are a few news blogs created by students in previous classes:
http://www.haileybranson.blogspot.com/
http://boomerbloggin.blogspot.com/
http://ounews.blogspot.com/
http://ashleybody.blogspot.com/
http://lillychapa.blogspot.com/
http://www.haileybranson.blogspot.com/
http://boomerbloggin.blogspot.com/
http://ounews.blogspot.com/
http://ashleybody.blogspot.com/
http://lillychapa.blogspot.com/
Elements Chapter 1
You can download a poorly-scanned copy of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of Elements of Journalism from the Contents section of D2L.
Textbooks
I have only two required texts in the class: "Elements of Journalism," by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, and the Associated Press Stylebook.
You probably already have an AP Stylebook. Any edition will do.
You will need to purchase "Elements" as soon as possible. I will ask you to read the first chapter and prepare a short summary of its contents by next Wednesday's class session. For those of you who cannot obtain the book that quickly, I will post a scanned copy of the first chapter online. But you will need to get the book as soon as you can. I suggest you order one today, unless you prefer to buy it at the OU Bookstore.
Here's Amazon.com's link for the book. It goes for $10 new. Used copies are available, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Journalism-Newspeople-Completely-Updated/dp/0307346706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282071952&sr=8-1
You probably already have an AP Stylebook. Any edition will do.
You will need to purchase "Elements" as soon as possible. I will ask you to read the first chapter and prepare a short summary of its contents by next Wednesday's class session. For those of you who cannot obtain the book that quickly, I will post a scanned copy of the first chapter online. But you will need to get the book as soon as you can. I suggest you order one today, unless you prefer to buy it at the OU Bookstore.
Here's Amazon.com's link for the book. It goes for $10 new. Used copies are available, too.
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Journalism-Newspeople-Completely-Updated/dp/0307346706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282071952&sr=8-1
Self-Bio Assignment
Assigned Aug. 23, 2010
Due midnight Aug. 29, 2010
Write a Self-Bio of 500 words or more. Write it like a feature story. Use a creative lead. Make it revealing. Tell me something distinctive about you. Your story doesn’t need to focus exclusively on your interest and experience in journalism or your career goals, but mention them in passing so I’ll know where you’re headed. Format your story as a Word document. The filename should start with your last name, like this: ViethSelfBio.doc. Double-space the text. At the top of the first page, include the following information, substituting your name, etc.:
Self-Bio
Warren Vieth
wvieth@ou.edu
Aug. 20, 2010
523 words
I rue the day I was born…
Upload your Word file to the Self-Bio Dropbox in D2L by midnight Sunday, Aug. 29.
Due midnight Aug. 29, 2010
Write a Self-Bio of 500 words or more. Write it like a feature story. Use a creative lead. Make it revealing. Tell me something distinctive about you. Your story doesn’t need to focus exclusively on your interest and experience in journalism or your career goals, but mention them in passing so I’ll know where you’re headed. Format your story as a Word document. The filename should start with your last name, like this: ViethSelfBio.doc. Double-space the text. At the top of the first page, include the following information, substituting your name, etc.:
Self-Bio
Warren Vieth
wvieth@ou.edu
Aug. 20, 2010
523 words
I rue the day I was born…
Upload your Word file to the Self-Bio Dropbox in D2L by midnight Sunday, Aug. 29.
Handycam Manual
(Warning: Don't try to print it at home. It's 128 pages.)
Required Equipment Purchase
You must purchase an external hard drive by the third week of class. You'll need this drive to store and manipulate the massive files your video projects will generate. Unedited video files are far too large for storage on flash drives, cheap hard drives or Gaylord College's overtaxed file servers.
We recommends that you buy an OWC Mercury On-The-Go, 7200-rpm “Combo” (FireWire 400+USB 2.0). This is a reasonably priced and extremely versatile drive that can handle the heavy demands of video editing. It should suffice for all of your future video coursework at Gaylord College. The cheapest model provides 250 GB of storage for $90. Here’s the website link:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MS4U7250GB16/
You’ll also need a FireWire 800-to-400 adapter so you can use the drive with the iMacs in the new wing of Gaylord Hall. The adapter costs $10. You can order it at the same time you order the drive. Here’s the link:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/FIR1369AD/
If you’d like to compare prices of bigger drive configurations, check out the next link. But make sure you’re getting a 7200-rpm model with FireWire capability.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/on-the-go
In addition, you will need at least three mini-DV tapes by the third week of class. You may purchase them anywhere. They cost about $5 each if you buy several at a time. Here are Web links for two reasonably priced options at Wal-Mart:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/TDK-3-Pack-60-Minute-MiniDV-Tapes/14015251
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sony-60-Minute-MiniDV-Tapes-6-Pack/10262875
Class Syllabus & Schedule
Click "Syllabus" and "Schedule" under the "Pages" heading in the right-hand column.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Welcome Aboard!
This is the official class website of JMC 3003 Multimedia Journalism, Section 002, for the fall semester of 2010. It will serve as our class bulletin board, message center and publication site. Please check it frequently for new information about class assignments and activities.
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