Katie Birecki, student of Taking your Website to the Edge, has been enjoying her time learning how to create multimedia stories. The class, led by Natalie Sekicky, has dove head first into learning the importance of a multimedia story has on your site. With a combination of pictures, videos, maps, ect., the presence of visual art can supply a whole new world of understanding … [Read more...] about Multimedia stories help take websites to the edge
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Pinterest comes to the rescue for yearbook students
Student of Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge, Hope Ma, enjoyed her time in class this morning perusing Pinterest for the latest and greatest yearbook ideas. Each student worked on a personal Pinterest board to gather and share ideas for their final projects. By the end of the week, each student will have constructed a power point to develop themes and construct new templates. … [Read more...] about Pinterest comes to the rescue for yearbook students
Passionate MIPA students in Yearbook Editors-In-Chief class
A classroom full of leaders hunch over their desks jotting down ten ways to describe their school. Future Editor-In-Chief's prepare for the nearing school year, brainstorming ideas, planning covers and creating themes for their upcoming book. "We try to cover a whole bunch of different ideas, there's no exact focus here." Brian Wilson, the class's instructor, said. The … [Read more...] about Passionate MIPA students in Yearbook Editors-In-Chief class
Rau’s Digital Storytelling students use Storify to cover concussion panel
Students in Betsy Rau's Digital Storytelling class used an online tool called Storify to consolidate various online coverage of the Aug. 4 concussion panel. Storify is a free service that allows users to consolidate elements from all sorts of online resources from Twitter to Facebook to Instagram and FlickR. Below are links to some of those Storify articles. Student … [Read more...] about Rau’s Digital Storytelling students use Storify to cover concussion panel
Writing & Designing the News
Cammie Hall is the instructor of Writing and Designing for News which is an introductory course for learning the basics of putting together a news story. Students learn to write news and feature type stories and then take them and put them into packages to expand it to newspaper, yearbook and even online and social media. “I’m trying to give them everything … [Read more...] about Writing & Designing the News