Digital Story Master Class

Advanced Content for the Online Audience

July 26 - July 30, 2004

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Featuring:

Mark Anderson
Online Project Manager, Winston-Salem Journal / JournalNow.com

Angela Clark
Deputy Editor for Creative Media, MSNBC.com

Albert López
Director, ÜberMedia, Motorola Strategic Web Communications

Margot Lovejoy
Artist/Writer, Professor of Visual Arts, S.U.N.Y Purchase

Other Discussion Leaders Include:

John Casserta, Visual Designer, Yale University

Alan Dorow, Publisher & Executive Editor, Musarium; Founder of Tango Interactive

Gonzalo Frasca, Lead Designer, Newsgaming.com, Copenhagen, Denmark

Amanda Hirsch, Editorial Director, PBS Interactive

Martin Kalfatovic, Digital Library Director, Smithsonian Institution Library

Theresa Riley, Director, P.O.V. Interactive - pbs.org/pov

Get serious about digital storytelling. In a series of how-to, brainstorming and critique sessions led by some of the world's most experienced and creative online practitioners, attendees find out how to deliver a rich and informative digital-story experience to their online audience.

Online-offline team participation is strongly recommended for speedier and more effective application of the experience.

Program Topics: the changing digital environment; elements of digital storytelling; case studies of PBS.org, Musarium; assessing online story design; mobile content and the digital future; managing teams towards desired results; big stories for small audiences; impactful digital stories

The seminar includes field trips to the Freedom Forum and the Smithsonian Institution

Who Should Attend and Why

Online content managers, editors, directors, visual and graphic designers, and senior producers for any Internet site where compelling content is critical to success; traditional print and broadcast journalists who want to learn new ways to communicate with online audiences.

Attendees gain:

Ways to push the creative, journalistic limits of the Internet to serve audiences better

An understanding of the latest trends and state-of-the-art tools in online story-telling and interactive communications

Inspiration to experiment with advanced multimedia, interactive journalism

Seminar Moderators: Media Center Director Andrew Nachison and Nora Paul, Director of the Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota

The Particulars

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Tuition: $2,650.00; Early-bird tuition: $2,385.00

Additional overall group discount for teams of 5 or more: 10 percent off regular tuition

Location: Reston, VA

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