Materials Fall 2009
Week 11:
- Sample audio slideshows:
- Narration by reporter
- String of soundbites
- Audio story
Week 10:
- Dreamweaver Training #7 inserting text, images and plugins (28 minutes)
- Dreamweaver Training #8 starting your IS site (10 minutes)
- Both these trainings need to be completed by the start of Lab 2, Week 10, so your lab can get rolling on its own site and you can ask questions about your IS site
- Practice exam for Grammar and Style Exam 2
- Practice exam answer key
- Tip Sheet: Web
UPDATED: Dreamweaver Training
- Grrr, I did have to record large chunks of this week's Dreamweaver training, so you'll find it a bit choppy in parts but it gets the job done
- Here's the training
- here's the pdf of the stylesheet mentioned in the end of the training
- Deadline: midnight Friday, Oct. 30
- Tip Sheet: Broadcast
Week 9:
- link to MP3 of speech for Assignment: Informative Audio Story (if you want to listen online)
- download file of speech (if you want to save to your computer and open in iTunes, QuickTime or other player to get timecodes -- huge file, don't move over wireless)
- link to speaker's site
- sample script to show you how to format
Week 8:
- Dreamweaver training #5 (55 minutes, complete by end of day Wednesday, Oct. 21)
- Tip Sheet: Print Layout
- Link to PDF of images and text available for use in your CPV newsletter assignment
- samples of weak and revised newsletters
For your IS assignment this week, you turn in an interview story and a complete set of typed notes. Details on this are available in the assignment sheet. We also would like you to submit a typed, one-page outline of how your story is shaping up to this point. The outline is should be brief and include:
- specific angle your story will take
- structure you expect
- information in roughly the order you think makes sense
- other angles you find interesting but may not fit in your main story (this will be of use for your audio, slideshow and video pieces)
You are not locked into this outline permanently. It's merely a prompt for you to keep your thinking organized and a guide for your TA to help point out potential problems.
Week 7:
- Dreamweaver training #4 (42 minutes, complete by end of day Wednesday, Oct. 14)
- Tip Sheet: Choosing and Using Quotes
- Major Stories background information (see packet for details):
- Wikipedia info on EPA Superfund (for general overview not for citation)
- NYT on Superfund
- Superfund case
- Brockovich effect
- NYT on Love Canal
- Buffalo News on Love Canal
- NYT on Brownfields development
- Chester racism 1
- Chester racism 2
- NYT on Stringfellow
- SF Chronicle on Stringfellow
- Stringfellow settlement
- Ottawa Citizen on lawsuit
- This week your Individual Story assignment involves creating "alternative story forms." Please refer directly to the assignment sheet for full details. Please note that your work must be original. You can draw data from a source, but you cannot do things such as simply recreating a chart in a previously published piece. Some resources that might be helpful:
- a blogger interviews a Poynter expert on ASF
- a presentation on multimedia with lots of links to samples of graphics, charts and timelines (as well as other multimedia)
- quikmaps, a tool for creating annotated maps
- xtimeline, a free tool for creating timelines
- beedocs, a better timeline tool that costs money but may allow you a free test download (Mac only)
- free chart tools
- dippity, a multimedia timeline tool
- html table-generator
These are not exhaustive. You have many options for creating the forms allowed in the assignment sheet. Don't forget the importance of attribution. Your audience needs to know where your information came from. For instance, if I were creating a chart on how Dane County residents voted in the presidential election by age, I might put a label beneath the chart, reading "Data Source: Dane County Clerk Voter Analysis Fact Sheet, November 2009." Please remember that you are just beginning. Do not attempt things that are too complicated because you'll spend a lot of time on the technology. You are graded on substance, more than you are on style. Think first and foremost about the content you want to provide. Then find an interesting way to display it.
Week 6:
- Dreamweaver training # 3 (29 minutes, complete by end of day Wednesday, Oct. 7, and upload to server, overwriting your last set of files)
- Data file for Assignment: Survey Newsletter Story
- Tip Sheet: Executive Summaries
Week 5:
- Tip Sheet: Info Sources
- Dreamweaver training # 2 (35 minutes, complete by end of day Wednesday, Sept. 30, and upload to server, overwriting your last set of files)
- Download second set of Dreamweaver training files
- Please don't forget your weekly readings on e-reserve through UW Libraries. At least one quiz question Monday will come from those readings.
- New alumni podcast posted in our course podcast through Learn@UW. This week's guest is John Keefe from WNYC public radio (this is not required listening but he's a fun dude)
Week 4:
- Annotated PDF of varying story types
- Dreamweaver training #1 (complete by Wednesday, Sept. 23)
- Download Dreamweaver training files to go with the first training
- Tip Sheet: Strategy Memos
Week 3:
- Lead samples to accompany lecture
- Tip Sheet: Leads
- Possible rewrites for leads in Assignment: Group Lead Rewriting (posted after labs are complete)
Week 2:
Assignment materials will be posted after the last lab of the week has completed its work, so some students don't have access before submitting assignments.
- Suggested leads for Assignment: Ranking Information
- Individual Story assignment sheet
- Individual Story sample audio slideshow
- Tip Sheet: Writing Well
Week 1:
- Link to student information survey: Please complete this by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1
- Sample J202 quizzes and quiz keys: These will help you study for our quizzes, which begin in Week 3
- Tip Sheet: Story Types: Each week, I'll post a Tip Sheet relevant to that week's lecture and lab assignments. They'll be in these weekly materials.
- Advice from past students: I often find past students' experiences help you succeed in your own J202 work. Here is how a set of students answered the question, "What is the one thing next semester's class should know coming into J202?"
- Grammar Workbook Key: You're not required to do the workbook, but if you need the practice, this key will let you know how you did.
- Understanding Grading: refer to this sheet for info (and some stress-relief) regarding your 202 grades.
- Assignment Formatting: here's how to submit all your work.
- Professional Practices and Extra Credit: You'll receive hard copies of these in lab, but refer to these postings if you lose the sheets. If you see the adviser for resume review, bring this form with you.
- Here's the sheet for Assignment: Online Grammar Exams, covered in the first online lecture.
- Our first Alumni Podcast is available in the 202 podcast. This week you'll hear from Katie Harbath, a J202 graduate (first class of J202, actually) who works as chief digital strategist for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. She gives you about 12 minutes on how to ready yourselves to compete in a digital age.
- Identifying Writing Problems Key
- Revision of Assignment: Critique Sample Story
- view revision in PDF
- visit 202 podcast in Learn@UW for narrated video of revision
