If you ever wonder why I teach, and why I do the things that I do…this is the best explanation I can give. Since I approve this message, you can be sure the language is not anywhere near safe for work:

This is Taylor Mali, a teacher and slam poet. You can visit his website here.

 

Greetings Programs:

Here is the Vimeo Channel with all of your Digital Story trailers. (The one not shown: The Red Seal, which you can visit here.)

Careful, though. I keep watching and re-watching them. Also: play with the desk at The Red Seal. And watch for the Scott Pilgrim reference at The Alias, with Keith pointed me towards after I tweeted about Pilgrim a million times.

What other little gems did you hide?

 

If you’d like to experience the entire story, you can begin here.

The Art of the Trade Video Synopsis from Adrian Kessler on Vimeo.

This video is a walkthrough of the The Art of the Trade story. It is to help the viewer understand and follow the different media used throughout.

 

You can download an interactive PDF of today’s presentation or you can access the SWF file online. It’s up to you.

After the talk, I’ll add whatever other topics came up during the discussion. So if you wait until Tuesday, you’ll have a more complete view about what we’ve discussed.

Otherwise: well, you won’t.

 

 

Ball State University College of Science and Humanities highlights a project Matt Mullins, Brian McNealy and I did last year called The Object.

 

Greetings Programs:

If you haven’t watched this, I encourage you to do so:

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Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.

Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualization techniques from computer scientists, researchers and artists. Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium. But how do we communicate with data, how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays?

Watch the full version with annotations and links at http://datajournalism.stanford.edu.

Produced during a 2009-2010 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.

 

The last of the video lectures (the next week’s are yours). This covers The Final Project, student responses from last week and some highlights from the Google and curated computers pieces.

JOU 299: Week 4 Wednesday Lecture from Brad King on Vimeo.

 

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