Week 9 Class Notes
Please check the wiki page listing your project deadlines and a breakdown of your topics according to subject-related sections.
In class today we will familiarize ourselves with Joomla and learn how to do the basic things necessary to complete your HKStories final project. We have some custom tutorials tailored to the exact setup of our website. Be sure to review them if you need to reminding about how to do anything you learned in class today:
- Posting on HKStories
- Page continuations
- Uploading Photos
- Adding and Formatting Photos
- Audio in HKStories
- Smoothgallery
The following are extras which we will discuss more in future classes:
(Note: In class when we create “practice” entries we will use lipsum.com to generate dummy text and use the photos and audio at hkstories.net/nmw/)
A more general reference on Joomla is the Joomla! User Manual Chapter 4 (PDF – generic instructions written by the Joomla developer community for posting content from the front-end)
Before you make further plans for your multiple-media online story for your final HKStories project any further be sure to review the following resources from Mindy McAdams at the University of Florida:
The Elements of Digital Storytelling breaks down the different kinds of elements used in online journalism. It also includes some very useful examples. This class doesn’t cover all the skills needed to create the advanced multimedia examples, but reviewing these examples helps you think about online storytelling, and how the approach differs from print or TV. Berkeley’s multimedia story planning tutorial focuses on how to plan a story for a stand-alone website, rather than the contributions you’ll be making on a group website, but many of the concepts in terms of mapping out your elements still apply.
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