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If you are landing on this page, please spend some time on the blogs of these student journalists. They are mainly sophomores and juniors; all of them began the work of being multimedia, visual storytellers this summer of 2010. Leave a comment, send them feedback, give them encouragement. Their journey telling digital stories has just begun.

From left to right: Lindsay Whelchel, Christine Whitten, Josh Kopelman, Matt Mozek, Sabrina Prosser, Julie Jones, Katherine Borgerding, Victory Reneau, Chris Miller, Colin Mullens, and Emily Summars

From the man himself

Hi all,
I thought I would share this with you given our discussion on "WWGD?" Seems the new iPhone is not up to calupa status due to problems with the antenna. The blogs are reporting Steve Jobs' response to the criticism. His response seems un-Google like, right?

From our intrepid Mark Potts

Hi all,

If you know the movie Citizen Kane you will find this clip hilarious. When you see Mark at the lab check out, let him know you saw the clip - he wrote and directed it. Nice!

From the news of the day

Hi all

The Knight Foundation has announced its 2009 grants. For five years the organization has awarded seed money for innovative journalism proposals. When you have a chance, take a look at what they are funding. I am center our presentation assignment around this instead. Don't worry, I know you have your hands full with the midterm right now.

On that front, I will post more detail information about the midterm on D2L later today. For now, though, remember it is a natural sound story, should be around 1:30 - 2:00 minutes, and have a lead in. I have not given you the instructions for posting video on your blog, so by Tuesday follow the directions on D2L and we will post your midterm in class. Have your story exported (in a .mov file not a .fcp file) and the lead in when you come to class.

Also, if you have a chance before Tuesday visit your classmates' blogs and click "Follow." You will see that Christine and I are already following you.

Finally, Emily emailed me the link to Nicolas Kristof, the New York Times journalist who travels Africa telling the personal stories of the big stories. Here is his multimedia page. I have not dived into those stories yet, but they look very interesting.

Alright everyone - here is wishing you good karma on the shooting front!

julie

Examples from other classes

Hi all,

Christine asked for examples from other midterm projects - so here you go. These stories were chosen in no particular order, so do not think I am showing you examples of getting an A. Each has things they did well and things they could have done better. Take a look and we will talk in class tomorrow.