Class Syllabus

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism – Fall 2011
Interactive I: Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism

Instructor: A. Adam Glenn
Teaching Assistant: Celia Gorman

Class time: Thursdays, 1:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
Room: 438

Instructor office hours: Tuesdays 12:30-1:30 and 4:30-5:30; Thursdays 12:00-1:00 and 5:00-6:00; Wednesdays by appointment. Office: Room 421C. NOTE: Specific office hours are subject to change, and posted on my regularly updated Google calendar at http://bit.ly/Glenn_CUNYCalendar

Contact Info: adam.glenn@journalism.cuny.edu, cell: 914-409-8795, Home: 914-333-7578
gchat: aadamg@gmail.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/aadamglenn, LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/aadamglenn, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aadamglenn

TA office hours: Mondays 4:00-7:00, Thursdays 4:00-7:00 in the newsroom
Contact Info: celia.gorman@journalism.cuny.edu, 914-263-0112

Resources
Class Blog URL: http://glennthuinteractive.journalism.cuny.edu
Interactive I Wiki Page: https://wiki.journalism.cuny.edu/Interactive-I (to be updated)
Interactive I Blog URL: TBD

Course Outcomes

This introductory survey course will provide you with a thorough grasp of and hands-on experience in interactive journalism. You will receive a broad-stroke understanding of how the Internet has changed the way news is gathered and presented on the Web, including the techniques of collaborative journalism, user-generated content, and social media sourcing and reporting. You will learn the basics of Web tools and techniques for your journalistic endeavors, such as blogging, social media, search engine optimization, mapping applications and others.  And as a multimedia producer, you will learn how to conceive, develop, pitch and tell a story using web tools for photography, audio and video.

Course Outcomes:

  • Students gain hands-on experience in multimedia and interactive journalism.
  • Students learn tools and the best practices in visual and audio storytelling for the web.
  • Students learn tools and the best practices in writing and producing interactive storytelling.
  • Students are taught the journalistic uses for professional software like Final Cut Pro and Photoshop.
  • Students learn the basics of using Web tools and techniques like blogging, search engine optimization and mapping applications for journalistic endeavors.
  • Students receive a broad-stroke understanding of how the Internet has changed the way news is gathered and presented on the Web, as well as changes in the business of news and the growth of a new “entrepreneurial” journalism.
  • Students learn the basic techniques of collaborative journalism, user-generated content, social media sourcing and reporting.
  • Students learn to use all these tools and techniques to report and produce multimedia short features or pieces in class exercises.

Part I: The state of news

Orientation Week – Seminar on the State of News
The stage will be set with an examination of the state of the news business and journalism: declining audience; declining trust; declining revenue from advertising, particularly classifieds, leading to declining resources; new competition from cable, citizens’ media, online services, and even foreign sources; the high cost of professional journalism. Having examined this from the perspective of the business, the students will then look at these changes from the perspective of the public: audience control and the growth of niches and targeting; the explosion of new tools for both creating and consuming media; the added difficulties of finding and verifying trusted sources. They will discuss their own definitions and uses of news and their relations with established brands and peers. The class will discuss professional standards and ethics of journalism in an age of new media, including plagiarism in a remix society, the growth of opinionated journalism and decline of the ethic of objectivity, and other topics.

Part II: What’s next?

The class itself explores the many new opportunities, tools, and partners to help in gathering and sharing news. How does journalism move into the next generation? What will your roles be? We will share examples of successful new models (success defined by quality and business sustainability). We will examine how the changes in technology and communication can extend the reach of journalism in communities and how it can improve its quality. We will also catalogue the issues these changes raise regarding quality, reliability, and sustainability. We will discuss the impact of new forms of journalism on an informed society.  We will discuss the standards, skills, and verities of journalism that you are learning in other classes, particularly Craft, and how these carry over in new media ( i.e., a blog post still needs a good lead). We will discuss the impact of all this change on your own careers and job prospects: Will some of you end up working independently? This seminar is intended to get you excited about the many possibilities and choices you face while also understanding how you must retain and adapt the essentials of journalism.

Week by Week

  • Week One (Sept. 1): Overview/blogging and interactivity
  • Week Two (Sept. 8; 12:30-4:20p): Writing for search engine optimization
    • Assignment No. 1: Blog post No. 2. List-style blog (250 words max) based on theme. Include minimum of 3-4 links, and multimedia, where appropriate. Category = List.
  • Week Three (Sept. 15): Harnessing social media for reporting/branding
    • Assignment No. 1: Blog post No. 3. Question blog w/reported intro (300 words max) based on theme. [NOTE: Question-style blog posts ask a question and solicit user comments. See examples of “question posts” on Interactive Blog Examples page]. Include minimum of 3-4 links, and multimedia, where appropriate. Post on your personal blog, then post one-sentence tease on class blog, under category “Questions.”
    • Assignment No. 2: Promote your own post using at least social media tool. Make 2 comments on your colleague’s posts. Post URL for post, links to comments and link to promotion on class blog under category “Questions” (if you like, you can share this info in the teaser post for your Question blog, outlined above). Due Date: Week 4. Comments and social media promotion by end of same day.
  • Week Four (Sept. 22): Cool web tools for interactive storytelling
    • Assignment: Social Media Diary – a) on one of your chosen social media platforms, post at least two items promoting your Blog Post No. 3 (the “question” blog), using specifics to drive users to the post, and b) post on social media platforms two items soliciting ideas for your upcoming Blog Post No. 4 (your “survey” blog). In a blog entry on the class blog (under category “social media”), share the links or full text of those four social media posts. Due Date: Week 5.
  • Week Five: (Oct. 6) Capturing photos for visual storytelling
    • EXERCISE: Themed Photos: Using an advanced point-and-shoot camera (school’s or your own) and experimenting with settings in “program” mode, collect 50-100 images based on a “theme” of your choosing. Upload the images (following instructions provided here). Cull your five best photos. Create a blog post on your blog with a sentence describing your “theme.” Post the five pictures in full column width. Post link on class blog using “Photo Exercise” category. Due Date: Start of Week 6 class. NOTE: No captions or additional reporting are necessary for this exercise, but keep in mind that that could be useful if you later decide to use some or all these images for your photo essay, to be assigned next week and due Week Seven.
    • ASSIGNMENT: Blog Post #4: Create survey using Google forms (or similar tool) and embed with reported intro (250 words max). Post on class blog (under category “survey”). Note that the responses to this survey will be used later in the term to fulfill your blog post #5 assignment, displaying survey results using Google Gadgets, to be assigned Week 11. Due Date: Start of week 6 class.
  • Week Six (Oct. 13): Photo essays on the web/caption writing
    • Assignment: Photo Essay: Produce 8-10 photos in a photo gallery with captions of 25-50 words, embedded in a blog post with 200-300 words of reported lead-in text. Photos must tell a story (with a narrative arc) or portray an issue through portraits, interaction, places, etc. Strong captions are a must. Post on class blog (under category “Multimedia Assignments – Photo Essay”). Due Date: Start of week 7 class. NOTE: Subject matter for this assignment is not limited to the blog theme. NOTE: In addition to the WordPress photo gallery function, you may also use a “big picture” approach, or embed a Flickr slideshow. NOTE: The purpose of this assignment is to teach basic proficiency in shooting, editing and telling stories using still photos, and posting to blogs; and to give an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of what makes a good picture, what makes a good journalistic picture, visual variety, and what makes a good sequence. Demonstrate skills at writing journalistic photo captions for this assignment, as well as using Aperture to manage and edit photos.
  • Week Seven (Oct. 20): Audio storytelling on the web
    • Assignment: Produce four (4) thematically related audio clips of no more than 1 minute apiece, three from an interview or interviews and one of relevant natsound that adds context to the reporting. The clips should be embedded into a single blog post on your personal site with a brief (150 words) introduction, and with each clip having its own brief (1 sentence) explanatory caption. Post URL on class blog under “Multimedia Assignments-Audio Clips.” Due Date: Week 8 start of class. NOTE: The following WordPress tag allows you to place your audio clips into your blog post with an embedded player: bracket audio:URL close bracket. [“audio:your URL here but without the quotation marks in the code”] You may also use the Soundcloud player (watch 3-minute intro video or take the tour. Also see, the basics).
    • NOTE: Mandatory Final Cut Training (Sat-Sun, Oct. 22-23)
  • Week Eight (Oct. 27): Audio slideshows: Combining audio & photos for powerful storytelling
    • Assignment: Audio slideshow pitch: Submit story pitch for upcoming assignment, per requirements on shared pitch doc [http://bit.ly/int1audiopitches]. Be prepared to present in 60 second newsroom-style pitch during class during Week 9 session. Due Date: Thursday, Nov. 3, 10 p.m.
  • Week Nine (Nov. 3): Using Soundslides
    • Assignment: Soundslides audio slideshow. Goal of assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to teach the creation of journalistic audio slideshows – your work should demonstrate the ability to marry audio, visuals and text to tell a story, and show basic proficiency using Soundslides, and posting a completed Soundslides project to a blog. NOTE: Subject matter for this assignment is not limited to the ToilTown jobs/joblessness theme.
      • The piece must have a minimum of 8-10 photographs (probably more like 15-20), showing a variety of shots, with 10 seconds max (preferably 3-7 secs) on each photo, with fade in and fade out
      • Resulting piece will likely be 1:30-2:00 long
      • Audio should be natural sound OR interview segments with natural sound
      • Text must include a brief (up to 150 words) introduction to the piece, and headline, as well as at least 1-2 title cards or lower thirds in slideshow itself. Captions are optional.
      • DEADLINE: Week 10, Nov. 10, start of class. Slideshow should be embedded in your personal blog, and a teaser post linking to that URL should be added to the class blog (category = “Audio Slideshow”)
  • Week Ten (Nov. 10): Telling stories with video (Part 1)
    • ASSIGNMENT: Blog Post #5 – Survey Results:Using the results of the Google survey you created for Blog Post #4, create a blog post of 150-200 words reporting on and analyzing those results and presenting the data in an embedded interactive infographic using the Google Gadgets tool (Tutorial: Data Visualization: Basics (Google Gadgets). Post on class blog (under category “survey results”). Due Date: Start of week 11 class. Extra Credit: Include at the bottom of the the blog post any additional social media promotion of the survey, other than that already filed in earlier social media diary assignment.
    • ASSIGNMENT: Video pitch:  Post pitch on shared Google Docs (link | http://bit.ly/int1videopitches). Due Date: Wed, Nov. 16 @ 11:59 p.m. See the shared docs for the elements the pitch should address and for pitch formatting requirements. NB: Be prepared to present a persuasive video pitch orally in 60 seconds in class on Nov. 17.
  • Week Eleven (Nov. 17): Telling stories with video (Part 2)
  • Week Twelve (Nov. 22/Tuesday): Collaborative journalism
    • ASSIGNMENT: Multimedia material gathered for Toiltown.com live coverage project: Each student gathers minimum of six raw multimedia clips (video or audio/stills) from his/her CD using smartphone, and asking: “How will the economy affect your holiday plans?” as well as related questions, two survey questions and biodata.  Best two clips pitched during class session, and top clip then produced into 60 second multimedia package on ToilTown.com site. DEADLINE: 1) Wed 11:59 p.m. – Bulleted list of six or more clips (including subject name, age, borough and sentence on editorial and technical strength of interview material). List should highlight the top two clips. Post list on this shared doc. 2) Start of class Week 13 – All raw multimedia material and data from interviews for final in-class production. Input survey response and data on this Google form. See complete project details here
  • Week Thirteen (Dec. 1): Newsroom Simulation
    • ASSIGNMENT: Web Video: Video script/storyboard & raw material. DEADLINE: Start of Week 14 class
  • Week Fourteen (Dec. 8): Cool tools; Story workshop. Lab: FinalCut
    • ASSIGNMENT: Web Video: A single 1:30-2:30 minute video, or two related videos with a combined total time of 2:30-3:00 minutes, without standups or voice-over narration, using sound-on-tape combined with natsound, a minimum of one title cards and/or lower third. Video uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo and embedded into post on class blog with 100-150 word intro text (under category “video”). Due Date: Start of week 15 class.
  • Week Fifteen (Dec. 15-16): Video Screening; Entrepreneurial journalism: The future of news
    • SCHEDULING NOTE: Session on Dec. 15 will be from 1-3 p.m. Session on Dec. 16 will be from 1-2:30 p.m. in Room 308.
    • EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT: Prepare entrepeneurial journalism concept for Dec. 16  session with Prof. Jarvis. You’ll bring to that session an idea for a journalistic service, site, product or app. Extended research is not necessary, but for brainstorming with Prof. Jarvis, you’ll want to think about how the idea might make money, what the market for it might be, what the competition is and what’s unique about it. You may share your idea on this Google doc.
    • OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT FOR EXTRA CREDIT: Blog Post No. 6 – Open as to topic and media (infographic, video, audio, audio slideshow, photo essay). Grade on this assignment will replace lowest grade on other muultimedia assignments (photo essay, audio, slideshow, video).
      • Deadline: Notify instructor by email of plans by 11:59 p.m., Friday Dec. 16. Deadline for submission by 11:59 p.m., Friday Dec. 23.
    • OPTIONAL REVISION: Revised Web Video – Re-shoot and/or re-edit to improve your initial video assignment, based on edit notes provided during our classroom screening. The revised video should replace the video in your initial blog post. In addition, please email the instructor with links to the blog post and to the original video. Please keep the original parameters of the assignment, i.e. max 2:30 for a single video w/o narration or standups. NOTE: The final grade on the video will be a combination of the grade for the first submission and the revised submission.
      • Deadline: Notify instructor by email of plans by 11:59 p.m., Friday Dec. 16. Deadline for submission by 11:59 p.m., Friday Dec. 23.

ASSIGNMENTS

In assessing students’ work, the instructor will focus on the following factors applicable to all assignments (see below for more specific criteria for each assignment):

  • Quality and Shine: Is it executed with skill and subtlety, and has it been edited well and polished?
  • Organization and Presentation: Is it presented clearly and in a professional manner suitable for an audience?
  • Effort and Application: Has the work been prepared with careful thought and attention to detail, and does it take appropriate advantage of the relevant tools?
  • Punctuality and Completeness: Is it on time and complete, and does it fulfill the assignment?

Students will be given feedback on each blog assignment by the next class period following the deadline, and on other assignments within two class periods following the deadline or sooner. There will also be frequent short critiques and show-and-tells of student work during each class period.

Assignment Calendar
Assigned–>Due

  • Week 1–>2: Blog Post. No. 1 (Curation)
  • Week 2–>3: Blog Post No. 2 (List) & Writing for Search
  • Week 3–>4: Blog Post No. 3 (Question) & Social Media Promotion
  • Week 4–>5: Social Media Diary for Blog Post No. 3 & 4 (upcoming)
  • Week 5–>6: Blog Post No. 4 (Survey)
  • Week 6–>7: Photo Essay Assignment
  • Week 7–>8: Audio Clip Assignment
  • Week 8–>9: Audio Slideshow Pitch
  • Week 9–>10: Audio Slideshow
  • Week 10–>11: Video Pitch; Blog Post No. 5 (Survey analysis/infographic);
  • Week 11–>12 (Tuesday): Video pitch updates: shot list, sources
  • Week 12–>13: News Simulation
  • Week 13–>14: Video Script/Storyboard & Raw Material
  • Week 14–>15: Web Video; Entrepreneurial Concept;
  • Optional Extra Credit: Blog Post No. 6 (Open, multimedia). Revised Web Video, or other multimedia assignment. Deadline for optional extra credit assignments: 11:59 p.m., Friday Dec. 23
    • NOTE: If you’re planning on doing any of these optional, extra credit assignments, student must inform the instructor by the day of the last class, 11:59 p.m., Friday, Dec. 16. The optional assignment would then be due a week later, 11:59 p.m., Friday, Dec. 23. Consider this a firm commitment; failure to file a promised revision will result in an “F” for that assignment or that part of a revision assignment. For those doing a video revision, expect edits by Monday, Dec. 19, or earlier, for use in completing your revisions. Others will have notes within the usual one-week edit cycle.

Blogging Assignment
Produce six blog posts.
Goal of assignment: The purpose of this semester-long blogging assignment is to teach you the importance of conceiving short posts on a consistent basis – a critical component of working in any modern newsroom – and to practice different formats that typically appear on journalistic blogs. The exercise will also provide practice writing for a platform that is different than traditional journalistic writing. The aim is conversational tone, concision, use of links to add value and reporting, good SEO hygiene, good topic selection, and journalistic approach (in other words, these are not opinion blogs).

  • Six posts total, per the formats listed below
  • Posts should include links and, where appropriate, visual material and/or multimedia
  • Students must post 2 comments on other blogs and link back to their current posts
  • You must submit the assignment by providing a link to the post on the interactive wiki or other group site set up by the instructor

Blog post #1:
Due Date: Week 2
Format/word limit: Curation w/ intro (250 words max)

Blog Post #2:
Due Date: Week 3
Format/word limit: List w/ intro (250 words max)

Blog Post #3:
Due Date:  Week 4
Format/word limit: Ask a question/solicit comments – include reported intro (300 words max)

Blog Post #4:
Due Date: Week 6
Format/word limit: Create Google Doc survey w/ reported intro (250 words max)

Blog Post #5:
Due Date: Week 12
Format/word limit: Report on/analyze Google Doc survey – embed w/ intro (300 words max)

OPTIONAL: Blog Post #6:
Due Date: Dec. 23
Format/word limit: Use one of the web tools taught in class (w/ intro (250 words max)

Photo Assignment
Produce photo essay
Goal of assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to teach basic proficiency in shooting, editing and telling stories using still photos, and posting to blogs; and to give an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of what makes a good picture, what makes a good journalistic picture, visual variety, and what makes a good sequence. Demonstrate skills at writing journalistic photo captions for this assignment, as well as using Bridge and Photoshop to manage and edit photos.

  • 8-10 original photos with captions
  • Photos must tell a story (with a narrative arc) or portray an issue through portraits people, places, etc.
  • Photos may portray action, interaction, portraits
  • Photos must have strong captions
  • Photos must be embedded in 200-300 words of text
  • You must submit the assignment by posting the photos and text to your blog and providing a link to the post on the Interactive wiki

DUE DATE: Week 7

Audio Assignment
Produce four thematic audio clips.
Goal of assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to teach basic proficiency in gathering, editing and telling stories using audio, and posting to blogs; and to give an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of how audio complements the text in a blog post, how it can be organized thematically, and how natural sound is used as part of storytelling. This assignment is also an opportunity to demonstrate audio editing skills.

    • No clip should be longer than 1 minute
    • Three of the clips must be from an interview or interviews One of the clips should be of relevant natural sound that adds context to the reporting
    • Each clip should have an audio caption
    • Your post must include a brief (50-150 words) journalistic introduction to the audio piece.
    • You must submit the assignment by embedding the audio into a single blog post on your personal site with a brief (150 words) introduction, and with each clip having its own brief (1 sentence) explanatory caption. Post URL on class blog under “Multimedia Assignments-Audio Clips.”
    • NOTE: The following WordPress tag allows you to place your audio clips into your blog post with an embedded player “[audio:URL]”. You may also use the Soundcloud player (watch 3-minute intro video or take the tour. Also see, the basics).

DUE DATE:  Week 8

Soundslides Assignment
Produce audio slideshow of minimum 1:30 in length.
Goal of assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to teach the creation of journalistic audio slideshows, to demonstrate basic proficiency using Soundslides, and to post a completed Soundslides project to blogs. Demonstrate ability to marry audio, visuals and text to tell a story.

  • The piece must have 8-10 photographs that show a variety of shots
  • 10 seconds max on each photo, with fade in and fade out
  • The audio you use to run with the photos must include either your voice over and natural sound OR interview segments with natural sound (I strongly recommend first-person interviews rather than narration)
  • You must include a brief (up to 150 words) journalistic introduction to the piece.
  • You must include a headline
  • You must submit the assignment by posting it to your blog and providing a link to the post on the Interactive wiki

DUE DATE: Week 10

Web Video Assignment
Produce short web video
Goal of assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to develop basic proficiency in shooting, editing and telling visual storytelling, and posting video to blogs; and to give an opportunity to demonstrate understanding of how video for the web differs from video for broadcast (as discussed in class). This assignment is also an opportunity to demonstrate skills with Final Cut.

  • Length: A single 1:30-2:30 minute video, or two related videos with a combined total time of 2:30-3:00 minutes
    • (Example of latter, two people affected by same issue)
  • This piece may not have standups (reporters in the video) or narration. Use images/sound to create narrative
  • You may use sound-on-tape (interview voices) or title cards to move the story forward
  • You must submit the assignment by embedding the video into your blog and providing a link to the post on the Interactive wiki

DUE DATE:  Week 15

Online Simulation Assignment

Details TBD

DUE DATE:  Week 14

GRADING

Grading for individual assignments is based on the level of professionalism of the finished work, with an A being professional quality work with minimal editing required, and a B being good quality student work. Grading for the class as a whole will be based on your overall performance as against your peers in the class, with the weights of assignment and other grades as follows:

  • Blogging Assignments: 12.5% (Note: Final blog will count higher within total blog grade)
  • Video Assignment: 12.5%
  • Audio Assignment: 12.5%
  • Photo Assignment: 12.5%
  • Soundslides Assignment: 12.5%
  • Simulated Newsroom Assignment 12.5%
  • Class Participation/Exercises 12.5%
  • Professionalism/Attendance 12.5%

PLAGIARISM

It is a serious ethical violation to take any material created by another person and represent it as your own original work.  Any such plagiarism will result in serious disciplinary action, including possible dismissal from the CUNY J-School.  Plagiarism may involve copying text from a book or magazine without attributing the source, or lifting words, photographs, videos, or other materials from the Internet and attempting to pass them off as your own.  Student work may be analyzed electronically for plagiarized content.  Please ask the instructor if you have any questions about how to distinguish between acceptable research and plagiarism.

Photo policy: Do not “lift” or “borrow” images from other web sites for use on your web site or blog without credit or “courtesy of” text. Permission must be provided by creator of the content for any image to be used, unless it is being used for “fair use,” purposes such as to comment on the image or because the image itself is part of the news you are reporting. Since such permission is often difficult to obtain, especially on deadline, and “fair use” difficulty to define, we strongly recommend that instead you use only those images you have created yourself, or which you have obtained via the AP Photo Bank, or other photo service for which the school has obtained licensing, or which are explicitly labelled as “creative commons” and available for your use. IMPORTANT: This matters, not just as a plagiarism issue, but as a legal copyright issue that could create problems for you in the school or beyond, in the workplace. Apply the old journalism adage: “If in doubt, leave it out!”

Also note that while we actively encourage students in this course to use their reporting/newsgathering work from their Craft/Broadcast Craft class for their assignments in Interactive I, you are not to “plagiarize” your own work, that is, to use finished work from one course to fulfill assignments in another. Again, please review with the instructor any questions about reuse of your work from one class to another; we’ll be spot checking material during the term to ensure adherence to this policy.

DEADLINES & LATENESS POLICY

Deadlines on assignments – as in any newsroom – are sacrosanct and should not be missed without exceptionally good reason, and only when the instructor is notified in advance. Per your student handbook, late assignments will be assessed a one-half grade penalty for every day it is late. For the purpose of this class, a day is a 24-hour period. Assignments that are late less than 24 hours are also likely to result in a drop in grade, although to a lesser extent.

Full participation in class is mandatory. Lateness is strongly discouraged, especially without advance notice to the instructor, and may result in a reduction in grade.

In addition, the following is per school policy: “As a professional school, the CUNY J-School has the same expectations for professional behavior as a news organization.  Reporters are expected to show up every day ready to work and J-School students are expected to attend every one of their classes.  This is not college, where classes sometimes are skipped on a whim.  Reporters who don’t show up don’t have a story – and pretty quickly, they don’t have a job.

If you cannot attend one of your classes, you are expected to notify the professor with the reason and get an excused absence. A medical or family emergency is generally sufficient reason for an excused absence from the CUNY J-School, just as it is from a job.  An unexplained or unexcused absence is never okay and will lead to a lowering of your grade.  It is within the professor’s discretion to determine what qualifies as an excused absence.  Similarly, arriving late for class on a regular basis also will lead to a grade reduction for unprofessional behavior.

TEACHING ASSISTANTS

The teaching assistant is there to help you, both during our class period and outside of it (during designated coaching hours (Mon and Thu 4-7). In class, TAs guide and assist students during lab time in use of software and equipment required for assignments, and occasionally presentat to students new equipment, production software, techniques, etc. Outside class, TAs will offer weekly “office hours” in 3rd floor newsroom, helping students with software and hardware aimed at completing weeekly assignments. They will also maintain the class section blog.

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