Week 7: Lab 1

Just a reminder to turn in your Three Photos Finals before class tomorrow. I am reading through your blogs and tweets, remember you must tweet on two different days in order to receive credit for both your tweets.

Tomorrow there will be a Twitter Current Events quiz and I can promise one question will pertain to the Oscars. 

For this week:
Continue watching Lynda.com tutorial on Final Cut Pro X ( Chapters 1-7, 9 and 10 chapter one “Managing Media Files” tutorial by end of Week 9) and for PC users watch Adobe Premiere Elements (Chapters 1-5 by the end of Week 9)
and take the Week 8 reading’s quiz due by 11:59 p.m. Friday

In class tomorrow we will talk about shooting video with the five shot method for your short video assignment. You do not need to check cameras out for class.

Wednesday we will do an in class critique of your audio slideshow assignment. Remember to post this to Blackboard before class if you want feedback in class. 

I'll also pass back feedback on your audio assignments.

Week 4: Lab 1

I see that you are all beginning to turn in your Seeing Red assignments. Do not forget to turn them in before 5 p.m. tomorrow.

Also we are going to begin our audio unit tomorrow. Make sure you go down and check out an audio kit before class so we can use them for a few exercises/training. You will also have a Twitter Current Event's quiz tomorrow.

Review the Audio Assignment, and the Audacity basics tutorial before class so we can hit the ground running. We'll be going over this in class. We'll talk about audio editing in class Thursday as well.

Week 2: Lab 1 Preparation Post

Make sure you have read over the assignments and readings for Week 1 and at least started on Week 2. Also read over Lab 1 on Week 2.

You should be following my Tweets and Twitter handle @mediatingmimi. Please send me your blog web address and twitter name. Always tag your tweets with #J2150C so I can find them and grade them weekly. If you do not tag it you will not get credit.

Just a note
My office hours are Monday from 4 to 5 p.m. (right before this class in 221B Lee Hills).  Please email me if you need to meet with me. I have other office hours available by appointment. Email is best. If you Email me before noon I will get back to you by noon the next day with the exception of Friday and Saturday. Emails I receive after midnight on Thursday will not be answered until Monday morning. Make sure you read everything on the course site, what I have emailed you or posted here on the blog before you send me an email asking questions. My email address is perreaultm@missouri.edu.

Please Read over your first assignment before class: Link to Seeing Red Assignment

This class will focus on the basics of the DSLR Nikon 7000. You need to check out your camera in Walter Williams 11 before class and return it after class. Hours are listed under week 1. We will do some warm-up exercises in class with a partner after the short introduction. You should have read the readings for LAB 1 before class.

You might also want to try out the Camera Simulator before class:

Camera Simulator

To turn in this week: 

There is a Twitter Current Events Quiz today at the beginning of class. You can have your computer open and search for Twitter. The current events will come from noon Sunday until noon today (Monday January, 23).

First Lynda.com quiz should be completed (on WordPress.com). 

Your first Photo assignment: Seeing Red photo assignment. Due into Blackboard before your first lab session next week. 

Make sure to begin researching your Half-semester community project: Continue your research on a community story that you want to work on for the first half of the semester. Each weekly assignment over the next seven weeks will be used to develop this story into a multimedia project. You'll want to come to class with three ideas just in case the first one or two do not work out. 

Week 2-3 reading quiz due by 11:59 p.m. Friday, you will receive information about this on Tuesday in lecture. 

One blog post and two tweets due before 5 p.m. Saturday. These posts should have to

do with multimedia in some way. I will provide an optional question in class for you to

answer on your blog. 

 

First Blog Assignment

Make sure to post your first blog by 5 p.m. Saturday after watching the WordPress Tutorial on Lynda.com.
Also you should be following me @mediatingmimi on Twitter.  See the below blog examples.

Blog Examples, Twitter Quizes

Here are a few blog examples to give you ideas about what to blog about:


Multimedia Blogs

The Newshouse blogs- At Syracuse

Mastering Multimedia

DUCKRABIT

10,000 Words

Here's some other Blogs I read on a regular basis:

Young House Love 

Chris Moody

On Parenting

GetReligion

On Faith



If you have any others you would like to share please leave links in the comments section or tweet them to me at @mediatingmimi.

TWITTER CURRENT EVENTS QUIZES

Also FYI make sure you are following those Twitter feeds suggested by Steve Rice on the Convergence main website. I'll be quizzing you every Monday with a five-question quiz concerning current events from these Twitter sites. You'll get to use your computer to answer the questions, but you'll have to be following them all on Twitter to know the answers. These quizzes will be emailed to you at the start of class (5 p.m. sharp). You'll then email them back to me when you are done.