INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND NEW MEDIA STUDIES

Beyond Web 2.0: Multimedia Journalism and Social Media

Date: Monday, June 14 until Friday, June 25, 2010

DW-Trainers: Guy Degen and Marcus Bösch

Programme Brief and Content

Varieties of exciting technologies that enable the messages, information and

communication being delivered on to multitude of platforms and through different media
have transformed how communications are being handled. This transformation has also
resulted in blurring the divider between the purveyor of communication and the target
audience. Enabled by such platforms as ‘Tweeter’ ‘Facebook’, ‘You ‘Tube’ etc., and
media such as ‘Blogs’, communication is poised to attain the next level wherein news,
views, opinions would increasingly be created, transmitted and disseminated at the same
time and events being modulated dynamically by the interchange of the roles by the
same individual at the same moment. Technologies that will dictate how the information
and communication would be handled are intruding in the public domain. A coherent
understanding of these technologies, media and platforms would be needed in order to
effectively participate in the increasingly activist oriented public domain.

It is only natural that after having conducted an exhaustive hands-on four weeks long
paid- for and well attended training workshop Web 2.0 and Online Media in March-April
2009, SOJNMS, IGNOU in collaboration with DW Akademie offers a follow-up training
programme viz. ‘Beyond Web 2.0: Multimedia Journalism and Social Media’ in order to
acquaint the participants with the technologies and concepts that will be tomorrow’s
web.

Summary of course concept

The two week course (10 training days) aims to provide participants with the necessary
skills to produce multimedia content and use social media platforms for research, news
gathering, networking and distribution.

The course is designed for online journalists seeking to broaden their multimedia and
social media skills, and journalists working in print or broadcast media who are making a
transition to online multimedia journalism, yet already have a solid working knowledge of
online platforms such as blogs and regularly use social media.

The course seeks to not only harness current Web 2.0 tools, but also show participants
how they can adapt in an era of fast-paced digital development in journalism and move
beyond Web 2.0.

The course strongly focuses on practical training in parallel with building upon the prior
online journalism and digital knowledge of participants.

Throughout the course participants will learn:

- how to produce and present a multimedia project for the web;

- how to effectively use social media during their whole working processes;
- new ways of using tools such as digital cameras and mobile phones for producing
multimedia journalism; and,
- about new online and social media tools that can be practically applied to journalism.

The course will be split into two sections. The first week will concentrate on introducing
participants to new skills and digital tools as well as providing the opportunity for
practice and skills development. The second week will focus on the gathering of digital
audio and visual materials and production of a group multimedia journalism project.

Room No. 8, Block-I, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
Tel: 011-2957 1108, 011-2957 1127; Email: soj@ignou.ac.in
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Course programme

Week 1 (Days 1 to 5)

Introduction

- present workshop programme;

- discuss participants' prior knowledge and expectations of course.

State-of-Now

- multimedia, social media and implications of the "real-time web" with for
journalists;
- getting acquainted with Web 2.0 for journalism and moving beyond;
- practical application of Web 2.0 tools at work;
- engaging with your audience and crowd sourcing information;
- visualising data;
- practical social media exercises for journalists using Twitter and Facebook; and,
- personal digital notebook: using blogs such as Tumblr.

Digital photography for the web

- digital photography basics;

- essential technical knowledge for production, editing and uploading photographs;
- framing, composition and the rule of thirds;
- copyright, Creative Commons and user-generated content (UGC);
- thinking visually: telling stories with pictures;
- using a mobile phone to take photographs and upload to the web; and,
- using Picasa integrating photo sharing sites into multimedia workflow.

Audio for the web

- recording, editing, uploading and presenting audio

- using ambient sound in multimedia,
- practical audio exercises for the web including producing interviews and sound
collages;
- using audio recording and production tools such as flash audio recorders, Audacity;
- using Audioboo for recording audio with a mobile phone and distributing audio
podcasts; and,
- where to find Creative Commons music to use in multimedia.

Video for the web

- essential technical knowledge for production, editing and uploading video;

- filming sequences, filming interviews
- trying new stuff: live streaming video from a mobile phone using Qik, Bambuser and
UStream;
- using small handheld video cameras such as the Flip and Kodak Zi8;
- basic video editing using Windows Movie Maker;
- distributing material on video sharing platforms such as Vimeo, Youtube and
12seconds.

Introducing the multimedia project blog: "Delhi 24"

- Editorial team meeting and planning;

- Hands on: About-Section, uploading Video-Interviews, user Twitter and Facebook,
Wordpress, Vimeo, YouTube

Week 2 (Day 6-10)

Room No. 8, Block-I, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
Tel: 011-2957 1108, 011-2957 1127; Email: soj@ignou.ac.in
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This second week will be conducted as a realistic newsroom project to produce a

multimedia blog.

Producing Delhi 24

- daily editorial meetings

- working in small groups
- assigning participants stories and production responsibilities
- gathering digital multimedia materials
- producing journalistic content for the blog
- meeting production and editorial deadlines

Presentation and review of Delhi 24 and course evaluation

- going "live" and publishing Delhi 24;

- presentation and review of project;
- participants' course evaluation; and
- review participants' course expectations.

Prior Online Journalism Knowledge and Experience

- How to use e-mail and RSS feeds;

- Digital photography and video: experience of uploading and sharing;
- Basic knowledge of Twitter and Facebook; and,
- Basic knowledge of blogging platforms and / or using a website CMS

Pre-Course Preparation

Participants must open accounts on the following online and social media platforms
before the commencement of the course:

- Google Mail
- Wordpress blog
- Twitter
- Facebook
- YouTube
- Picasa

Trainers

Mr. Guy Degen is a freelance journalist and is based in Germany. He travels widely
contributing stories to international broadcasters and is regularly commissioned by UN
agencies as a multimedia producer. Guy writes for the Frontline Club blog and tweets via
@fieldreports. Guy also trains journalists in multimedia skills and mobile journalism.

Mr. Marcus Bösch is a freelance producer and reporter with the German International
Broadcaster Deutsche Welle. He does a weekly radio show about blogs and teaches
Online Journalism at the DW-Akademie and the Akademie für Publizistik in Hamburg. His
interest is to improve multimedia-storytelling for mobile devices. Together with Steffen
Leidel he is responsible for the DW-Akademie´s lab-Blog: http://training.dw-world.de/lab.

For information and queries please contact:

Mr. G.N. Prasad,
Assistant Registrar,
Room No, 8, Block-I, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi – 110 068.
Tel: 011-2957 1108, 2957 1127,
Email: soj@ignou.ac.in

Room No. 8, Block-I, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
Tel: 011-2957 1108, 011-2957 1127; Email: soj@ignou.ac.in
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SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AND NEW MEDIA STUDIES

The School of Journalism and New Media Studies, IGNOU

in collaboration
with
DW-AKADEMIE Academy, Germany
Offers

Beyond Web 2.0: Multimedia Journalism and Social Media

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Date: June 14 - June 25, 2010

Venue: IGNOU Campus, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068

DW-Trainers: Guy Degen and Marcus Bösch

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Room No. 8, Block-I, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi – 110 068
Tel: 011-2957 1108, 011-2957 1127; Email: soj@ignou.ac.in