The advanced news students began uploading their stories to the Web this week. Most of the feature stories are available at the UNC Special Section, which is part of the Tribune's Web site. We'll upload the opinion columns next week, and the investigative articles will be added after I grade them, which means they should be up by the third week of May. Those stories will also include photos and fact boxes.
Thanks again to Jessie Williams at the Tribune, who has no time to be helping us but somehow made two visits to our class and created an easy-to-use handout for uploading stories and graphics.
Of course, this is only the beginning. I'm hoping to continue adding stories to the Web next semester. My hope is to teach audio recording and Soundslides to the Reporting Contemporary Issues class early in the fall. Soundslides is a program that creates slide shows using still photos and audio. It's a relatively simple way for novices to create multimedia for the Web. I am also the new Webmaster for our JMC program. I'd like to use the JMC Web site to show off our students' work, as well as lots of other things. So much to think about. But it's all good.
Hope everyone enjoys reading the Web stories. Comments are encouraged.
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