Oct. 6, Session 5, Emerging media forms: podcasts, video blogs, short form video (TikTok)

 Read: The Voice is mightier than the pen: podcast power

The easiest way to make a podcast (from Anchor) 

How publishers are growing their audience with TikTok

Optional:

News podcasts and the opportunities for publishers 

Exercise 5, due Friday Oct. 9
1. Work in groups of maximum 4 people. It can be any 2, 3 or 4 people.

2. You are going to create a multimedia presentation of an event, a company, or a product in at least 15 slides or pages, using online or offline platforms such as  Google Slides, Prezi, Powerpoint, Keynote, or another format.

3. The presentation must include texts, videos and images and must include at least 15 slides/pages. Depending on your topic, it might be a good idea to include a Google Map, a Timetoast.com timeline, a graphic, a gif with gifmaker.me, or a graphic with excel or infogr.am, ease.ly, datawrapper or piktochart.com. Some of you might want to work on creating one of these multimedia elements.

Other tools: Timeline, Story Map, Juxtapose.

4. Elements to include in your presentation.

History, foundation

Key people, bios

Background

Relevant statistics 

Sources

Social media presence

Target market

5. Once the presentation is finished, Post your work -- either the link or the slides -- in Exercise 5 in ADI along with the names of the authors.

Blog post 5, finish by Friday Oct. 9: The best material posted on your topic in the past 12 months

Each member of the team will list several examples of what they think was the best work on your topic in the past 6 months, and why you chose them.

Blog post 6, finish by Friday Oct. 16: Collect all 5 of your links, and reflect on blogging

Each member of the team will put links to all five of their blog posts on one blog entry and then write about their experience of blogging. UPLOAD THE LINK TO YOUR FINAL BLOG POST TO EXERCISE 6, IN ADI.