Several of the participants have gone back into their classroom this year and make direct use of the multi-media tools they learned at the institute.
Some of the participants changed their curriculum and/ or syllabus to reflect the knowledge they gained in the area of mutli-media, while others created new webpages for their students to use and now require their students to create their own blogs and webpages.
Dmitrijs Petrenko, Latvia, has created such a site for his students and is requiring his students to create their own webpages. As a result of his experience at the institute, the department has asked him to teach online media now to all the print journalism students.
Le Than Trieu, Vietnam, is also teaching a course on online media and has updated her syllabus after her experience with the institute. It appears below.
OJ 1: INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE JOURNALISM
PERIOD: 30 (50 MINS/PERIOD)
Part 1: Online Journalism background
- History
- Definitions
- Main characteristics (strong points and weak points of OJ)
- Roles and trends of development (international and national)
Part 2: Online Newsroom
- Online newsroom’s staff and their roles
- Online workflow
Students visit an online newspaper
Part 3: Working with online newspapers
- Online newspaper’s interfaces
- Popular topics/columns
- Online skills: nose for news, interviewing, writing and editing articles, shooting photos, making slideshow, video, audio clip (Window Movie Maker, Audacity, Soundslides…)
Part 4: Other issues
- OJ’s future (social networks)
- OJ’s business and advertisements
- Citizen newspapers (blog, personal websites)
- OJ’s management (government’s management and a business management…)