WCC MMJ COMM 106

1. COMM 106:
MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
Professor Eric Luther
 TX Community College transfer student
 SMU: Dallas, TX – Bachelors of Humanities
 NYU: New York, NY – Masters in Arts & Humanities
Education
 10 years in media production (mainly TV news)
 Taught communications and media courses as adjunct at
other community colleges, but came full-time to WCC as
of Fall 2010
 Curriculum Chair; Communication & Media Arts
 Department Chair; Communication, Journalism & Media
Arts

2. COM 106: Multimedia Journalism
Students:
 Who are you and what brings you
to this class?
 What do you hope/expect to get
out of this class?

3. COMM 106:
MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
TODAY’S OVERVIEW:
 Go over Class Outline
 Discuss Journalism Basics
 Class Materials are posted on
Blackboard prior to class meeting
 GO TO THIS COURSE SECTION
ON BLACKBOARD NOW

4. COMM 109:
USING BLACKBOARD
 All assigned class work and materials can be found
in the corresponding WEEKLY CLASS MATERIAL &
ASSIGNMENTS area of the course blackboard shell:

5. COMM 109:
USING BLACKBOARD
 Click into the appropriate week of class meeting

6. COMM 109:
USING BLACKBOARD
 There you will see all the assigned work & material
for that week

7. COURSE OUTLINE OVERVIEW
 CONTACT INFO
 COURSE DETAILS
 GRADING DETAILS
 CLASS POLICIES
 GENERAL TOPIC OUTLINE

8. OUTLINE OVERVIEW
 Course Outline is subject to change
 Discussion is encouraged but please be
polite not only when talking, but listening –
communication is a two-way street
 Questions?

9. BASIC COURSE SECTIONS:
 LECTURES/COVERAGE OF CLASS MATERIAL
 CLASS BLOG POSTINGS AND
ASSIGNMENTS
 BLACKBOARD QUIZZES AND/OR
ASSIGNMENTS
 IN-CLASS & OUTSIDE-CLASS LAB TIME TO
WORK ON EXERCISES AND MULTIMEDIA
PROJECTS

10. Past Student Project Work
 LOCAL EVENT
 ENTERTAINMENT
 SCHOOL RELATED
 CULTURAL TREND
 COVERED IN CONCRETE DUST

11. What is “COMM 106: MULTIMEDIA
JOURNALISM”?
 Multimedia (dictionary)
 Using or involving several forms of
communication or expression
 For our purposes, we’re going to focus
on AUDIO and VIDEO as our primary
media forms along with text,
interactive, and photo elements

12. What is “COMM 106: MULTIMEDIA
JOURNALISM”?
 Journalism (dictionary)
 the activity or job of collecting,
writing, and editing news stories for
newspapers, magazines, television,
radio, and/or the web

13. BASICS OF JOURNALISM
 Journalists should always perform two
basic function (the 2 “I’s”):
 INVESTIGATE & INFORM
 And they should always perform them:
 As ACCURATELY & FAIRLY as they
possibly can

14. MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM PROJECT
 You will pick a Journalistic Topic to
Investigate & Inform as Accurately &
Fairly as you can
 You will build a multimedia project
around it (text – video – audio –
interactivity)
 Presented to class at end of semester

15. BLOG EMAIL SUBMISSION
 You have one assignment this week – simply
submit an email address so I can add you to
our class blog as an author
 It can be ANY email address, personal or your
WCC address
 You will receive info at this address that you
will need to post on our class blog
 You will find this assignment in WEEK #1
 Due by next class