Out With Storify, In With Cartoons

Yesterday, our group wrapped up our Storify project.

We came together and shared our individual projects. After that, we created a group Storify on the L.A. Youth newspaper closing.

 I thought the project went well. Everything just seemed to click.

We finished the project two hours before class was over.

Click here to check out the groups Storify.

Once we share our projects tomorrow, we will move one from Storify and will be creating cartoons.

We won't work on the design aspect, however, we will be placing characters at a certain place and have them talk about anything we want them to talk about.

Our first assignment is to write a script that should be timed between 90 to 120 seconds.

We will official start our cartoons tomorrow.

Click here to check out what the class will be doing tomorrow.

Storify, A Simpler Way to Tell Stories

Last Thursday in class, we were introduced to storify.com

Storify.com is website used to tell a story without too much writing involved.

This website gives users multiple options to explain what is going on.

Everything from Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and other resources could be used to tell a story.

Are class went into groups of four. We did our own individual stories and will share our stories with each other tomorrow.

After that, we will pick the best piece and put together a group story.

The individual and group stories will be shared with the entire class tomorrow.

Our group did our piece on the L.A. Youth closing its program.

L.A. Youth is a newspaper made for teenagers and written and published by teenagers.

Here is the link to my storify piece:

http://storify.com/AnthonyHodge07/la-youth-to-shut-down-after-25-years

Learning About our Blogs and Twitter

Toady we learned a more about our blog accounts.

We've learned how to add more tabs to our blogs.

We also learned how a little big about how to manage html.

I'll have to admit, it was hard to change around html.

After that, we went into the importance of having a twitter account.

Twitter is a must in journalism.

Twitter allows journalist and news outlets to report the news in 140 characters.

The students in class created accounts for today and will be using their accounts within the next eight weeks of class to post news around Cerritos College.

Although I already have an account, I've decided to create a new one for the class because I thought it would conflict my personal account.

Either way, I can't wait to use this account, as well as continuing to see what this class has to offer.

Journalism 121 Has Started

The Journalism 121 course has kicked off and I am super excited to get the class started.

 The first day was the class introduction in which the students find out what we're going to do for the semester.

 After our class introduction, each person introduced themselves and explained why they took the class.

The class introductions are where we've found out about all of the exciting assignments we will be doing such as blogging, videos, animations, etc. I really enjoyed that Three Little Pigs video in class.

 I thought it was a preview of a movie. The on the second day of class, we got into blogging.

 The class watched a video called Blogs in Plain English. After that, the class created their own blog sites.

 The first week of class was excellent, and I cannot wait to see how the rest of the semester will turn out.

About Anthony Hodge

This is the official blog site of Anthony Hodge for the Journalism 121 course at Cerritos College.

Anthony Hodge has been attending Cerritos College since Spring 2010, and is currently on his final semester. 

Hodge is a Public Relations major and will be transferring to a university this fall (still have not made a decision.)

Here are Anthony Hodge's Top 10 favorite blog websites:

1. Video Storytelling Workshop: Three things you'll take away

A list of three ways on how to make effective video recording. From the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/blog/2012/nov/27/video-storytelling-workshop-three-things-youll-tak/

2. Multimedia Journalism 

A blog about what a particular class will be learning about involving Multimedia Journalism.

http://journgrad.wordpress.com/

3. Teaching mobile journalsim: An experiment in my digital journalism class

A blog about what a professor taught her class about mobile journalism.

http://www.mulinblog.com/2012/12/27/teaching-mobile-journalism/

4. Three little pigs & the modern news cycle

A blog talking about the Three Little Pigs video, which was made by the British newspaper The Guardian.

http://www.reportinginamultimediaworld.com/2012/03/21/three-little-pics-the-modern-news-cycle/

5. How to Embed Soundslides into WordPress.com Blogs

A blog about how to put soundslides into wordpress.com

http://imageconversations.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/how-to-embed-soundslides-into-wordpress-com-blogs/

6. Multimedia Journalism 

A wordpress.com list from Drake University School of Journalism

http://drakej102.wordpress.com/

7. Will Social Media Bring Us Together or Tear Us Apart?

A blog that explains the impact on Social Media.

http://blogs.brandeis.edu/samgajewski/

8. Do you still Instagram?

A blog about how Instagram helped change photography.

http://visualjournalisms.com/

9. Mojo babyyyy!

A blogger demonstrates different styles of journalism.

http://arog.edublogs.org/

10. Building Multimedia Stories 

A blog site talking about different multimedia stories. From the University of Wyoming.

http://uwyojournalism.com/