Your final projects

Congratulations to everyone for completing your final projects…and just generally surviving the semester. Here are links to your multimedia projects:

• Tricia Alvey and Tanja Roelli’s Love Hockey site for Sharks fans.
• Mohammad Awadalla’s Child Soldier mockumentary site.
• Darnisha Bishop’s Essence yoga site.
• Stephanie Bunting’s Perspectives site, which focuses on dealing with anxiety.
• Lee Connolly’s Team in Training site, which shows her sister training for a triathalon.
• Bianca DeRose’s project, Bianca’s Blues Bits, focuses on the Blues and the Poor House Bistro, where her father plays in a Blues band.
• Nate Carter, Sol Duarte and Kathryn Gunn developed this parody of the Cops TV show, KOPS…Policemen on Patrol.
• Advertising major Erik Estrada’s final project focuses on advertising.

• Samantha Inouye’s final project,
  Koropea’s Weblog: The World of the Geek, explores the world of comics and video games.
• Jason LeMiere’s project, The Peninsula Clef Hangers, profiles a volunteer women’s chorus.
• Ryan Mendoza’s Mix Vibes site highlights Pioneer DJ Products and offers a tutorial on how to set a loop.
• Carlos Moreno (link to come)
• Jeannette Minster’s Music Maven web site highlights new artists and where to go to hear good bands this summer. You can also check out her class web site

• Alan Potter’s multimedia project, The Art of Surfing, explores in Santa Cruz.
• Scott Reyburn’s HolyPSP site gives you his top picks for Nintendo 64 video games. Here’s a link to his podcast on his top five games for the Nintendo 64.
• Brittany Romby’s Genetically Impossible site looks at local music and art shows and features her KSJS playlists. Her class web page has links to her “In the Studio” video and podcast

Online A.S. election guide

Check out the Spartan Daily’s online Associated Students election guide, a multimedia package complete with pics, profiles and videos of individual candidates, as well as links to the Daily’s recent A.S. election coverage. (Consider it another prototype for your final multimedia project.)

This election guide was put together by spartandaily.com editor Kyle Hansen, who took this class last year. (Yes, we profs like to brag on our success stories, and we certainly count Kyle as one of them!)

Like you, he started a blog when he took the class; he’s still writing Kyle’s Comments.

Two online tutorials

The last two classes have focused on two News U tutorials — Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling and Telling Stories with Sound — in preparation for your podcast project and your final multimedia project.

If you missed either of these classes, you’ll need to complete the tutorials on your own.

To complete the tutorials, you’ll need to register on the News U website — set up a username and password — and log in. Here’s the link to the News U website: http://www.newsu.org/.

Once you’ve logged in, click on the “Courses” tab, select the “Online/Multimedia” category, and select these tutorials: Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling and Telling Stories with Sound. Allow 45-60 minutes to complete each tutorial.

When you complete a tutorial, click on the “Course Report” tab and send me a report. That will be my cue to give you credit for completing the tutorial. If you completed these tutorials in class, you’re all set…and you can proceed with the two final projects for this class.

Some sample multimedia projects

Here’s a link to a group of multimedia projects created for this class by Spring ‘07 students. Take a look around and see what they did. It might give you some ideas for your final project.

• Direct link to S’07 student multimedia projects: http://www.jmc.sjsu.edu/student/jour163/projects.html
• Be sure to check out these examples: 
  • Percussion, a multimedia project created by Josh Peterson and Jason Freer, spring ‘07)
  • Burning Water, a multimedia project created by Eleanor Capili, Karie Lingg and Julie Cheng, spring ‘07)
  • San Jose Beer and Food, a multimedia project created by Brett Gifford, Khalid Jivani, Mike Wright and Ramon Hernandez