Campfire Journalism notes on teaching interactive storytelling

The audio slide show – a multimedia piece that combines audio and still photos – is a standard format in most newsrooms and journalism classrooms. And Soundslides, a program created by Joe Weiss, is the standard program used to create them. Soundslides is so easy to use that it does not require hours of step-by-step [...]

This past semester, I integrated the NYTimes.com multimedia series One in 8 Million: New York Characters in Sound and Images into the regular routine of my Online Journalism II course. When we started the semester, most of the students had limited experience recording and editing audio. Most had not taken a photojournalism course. And it [...]