New Media Workshop

Reading & resources for your photography assignment:

Journalism 2.0, Chapter 8: Shooting and Managing Digital Photos

How to take pictures for online use from the photography and graphics section of the J-Lab’s J-Learning website.

Hints from picture.com

Ten most common photographic mistakes by Andre Gunther.

Assignments:

BY TUESDAY OCT.2, 9AM: Create an account on Flickr. Join the New Media Workshop group. (NOTE this second step is VERY important!)
Identify some event or lecture on campus, an event or gathering anywhere else, or a place you were already planning to visit at some time in the coming week. Take your digital camera along and shoot some pictures as if you were going to do a news story about this subject. Upload 1-3 (one is fine – no more than three!) of the best photos to your Flickr account and be sure to add them to the NMW group, and also tag them with “jmschku”. No need to go anywhere you weren’t already planning to go this week – take advantage of an event or place that you will be going to anyway. But try to shoot it like a journalist, not like a tourist.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to retain the original versions of your photos on your camera and/or on a memory stick. When you come to class on Oct. 2 be sure to bring the cameras on which you shot the original photos and/or bring the original unedited photos on a memory stick. EITHER WAY, you will need to bring a memory stick on which to store the edited versions of your photos that we will make in class.

WEEKLY FROM NOW ON, ANY TIME BEFORE THE START OF WEDNESDAY’S CLASS: Keep an eye on the feeds and tags you have subscribed to about the district council election, and continue to update/add to them as needed. Post ONE PARAGRAPH (no need to be long) on your blog linking to and describing anything that comes up which you think is potentially relevant to our district council election coverage.
Assign this weekly post to a “District Council” category on your blog.
Based on your new discoveries make one contribution (new item on the ideas list, a note about or an addition to an existing idea, etc.) to the story ideas page on the class wiki.