The HK101 project has ended its two-year experiment and this mock blog demonstration will no longer be updated. I have a real, active course blog, however, and it’s at http://masatoblog.wordpress.com.
This site will be taken down by the end of this year.
I have been using delicious to organize and tag my bookmarks for my teaching, but I recently created an account with Publish 2 , a free web service for “link journalism,” and like it very much (the latest five links I added to my account now appear on this blog as a widget at the top of my right-hand sidebar). Let’s see how my students would like it next semester.
My students in Broadcast Journalism 2 course produced three TV documentaries at the end of this semester. On top of producing daily TV news shows, we have been discussing different forms and styles of news story narratives this semester; and they have experimented with some here. Admittedly, many stories are rather crude and very choppy, but I see a potential. I hope my students have learned more than just a conventional way of doing TV news and enjoyed this assignment (and of course I also hope they enjoyed making and broadcasting a TV news show, which was their first assignment).
HKBU News Magazine: Life in Hong Kong (Note: This image is linked to another web page and it will open a new window)
If you are interested, here are the details about the workshop I menioned in the previous post. We had one-day extra session for the students and Hong Kong journalists as well and it was great.
HKBU School of Communication
School of Communication launches Asia’s first world-class International Multimedia Training Series
Knight Center for International Media
Multimedia journalism workshops focus on telling the world’s most underreported stories
Our university recently organized a multimedia workshop for journalism educators in Asia in collaboration with the University of Miami and the Knight Center for International Media. I was a “task force” member on our side and participated in the week-long session as a half assistant/half participant.
Below is the video I shot and edited during the workshop. The assignment was to simply go out and shoot a one to two minute video story. I would say, all in all, I spent about five hours from the beginning to the end, i.e., from finding a story and people to interview to capturing the tape, editing video, compressing the file and dressing up the video with flash for the workshop’s group blog (mind you that at the same time I was also helping other participants, especially when shooting video as my partner had no experience in this kind of thing before).
I am not entirely satisfied with the result, but given the short amount of time I had and the nature of this video (it’s not really a news story but just a practice in a workshop), I don’t think it’s too bad, but it’s been a while since I last shot and edited video in the newsroom; so I felt my skills were a bit rusty during the time I was working on this, which reminded me once again that coaching someone (which is my job now) and actually doing things (that is what my students mostly do) require two different skill sets.
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Another eight students in my Online Journalism course worked on the theme “Collective Memory” for the slide show assignment. Again, please note that each image is linked to an independent slide show (so that the students can modify and decorate the page in anyway they like later) and it opens a new browser window. Enjoy.
Ten students in my Online Journalism course created these slideshows on the topic, “Arts in Hong Kong.” Please note that each image is linked to an independent slide show (so that the students can modify and decorate the page in anyway they like later) and it opens a new browser window. Enjoy.
When I was a college student, my best friend and I drove a car form Tennessee, the United States, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a very memorable trip and here are some of the photos we took during that trip. We only had a cheap point and shoot compact film camera (or a fool-proof camera, as it was called in Japan); so the images are not that great. But nonetheless, I believe you can imagine what the trip was like. And, oh yes, I was much much much younger, then, huh huh huh.
CNN is now capable of “beaming” correspondents to a studio (see the video in this article). My initial reaction was “Wow! Star Wars came to reality!” But then, come to think of it, what’s the point? The traditional live feed is much more effecitve in telling a story from the scene.
Seems like this website called multimediamuse.org is a good place to start.
My Publish 2 Links