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IMPORTANT: YOU NEED TO USE FIREFOX BROWSER IN ORDER TO SEE THE RIGHT CODE TO EMBED BOTH VIDEO AND AUDIO!



This is not quite as tricky as it might first appear....honest!

Step 1 - Convert your .wav audio files to MP3s.

a, Upload your audio file to your PC/Mac using a USB or bluetooth connection.

b, Then open iTunes (you'll find it in the applications folder on the hard drive).

c, Open preferences in iTunes (under the main iTunes tab) an… Continue

The second assignment is a piece on online journalism.

The DEADLINE is Friday, December 21st.

It should be 700-800 words long and it needs to be a piece of reporting/short feature writing. Pure opinion or criticism is not permitted.

The story should be written as an online magazine feature - incorporating a news angle with feature writing techniques.

The theme of the assignment is "Capturing Cardiff" and your story can cover the following beats:
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Have just come out of a meeting with Nokia Trend Labs to do a debrief about last Thursday's workshop day.

I conveyed the comments and feedback that you have been putting up here on Ning. They, and I, agree that we will need to better explain how Nokia Trend Labs can offer a forum for experimental mobile journalism the next time they work with a school of journalism.

This is an experimental collaboration for all of us so we're going to make mistakes along the way.

Hopef… Continue

Hey all,

So Nokia Trend Labs came to us yesterday and some of you probably thought it was worthwhile and a number of you have already blogged and commented that it was a not a good day.

Let me throw my thoughts out there so they can act as a lightning rod seeing as I arranged this Nokia collaboration.

First up, Stanley Paris theatre sucks and if you can't get sound to work properly in multimedia presentations then you lose your audience.

That said, the first p… Continue

As a minimum, include a post after each lecture presented by visiting
speakers.
Posts should NOT be a summary of the lecture, but should be your
commentary upon what you consider to be the key issues arising, and
should be no longer than 250 words.

Three posts will be assessed for marking purposes.

Assessment Criteria

• Quality of commentary


• Tightness and clarity of writing


• Use of links


• Accuracy (factual, grammar, spelling a

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