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Course Overview

Room: 242

Texts:

Introduction to Online Journalism

Reporting, Writing, and Editing for New Media

Software: Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Illustrator, Audition

Colby Chronicle - The class will create and maintain an online magazine consisting of articles, photos, video, podcasts, and blogs. Issues will include school, local, national, and global issues.

The Colby Chronicle will be published on the 15th of every month commencing October 15th.

The combined power of pictures, graphics, audio, text, and interactivity available to millions of people online is the most significant change in mass communications since television.*

Each day more than 46 million North Americans obtain their news from the internet surpassing television and radio as the major source of information for individuals.

IDP 4U - Journalism and New Media, provides students with an in-depth look at this recent phenomenon through the study of all aspects of new media including on-line journalism, reporting for the web, gathering digital data, digital photography, digital video, on-line intellectual property, and future trends and careers in the field.

In addition students will obtain a variety of New Media/Journalism skills through a wealth of exciting practical work including the design and creation of journalistic web sites, photography, reporting, writing, interviewing, conducting live interviews with subjects around the world through videoconferencing, and all facets of broadcast journalism in the creation of video news stories.

*IDP4U is an interdisciplinary course with the prerequisites of ENG 3U, a Technology course, and the co-requisites of a senior level Canadian and World Studies course.

*De Wolk