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For Trends in Communication and Information Technology, JOUR 4871-003, fall 2012, CU-Boulder
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Digital Tools forNews & Storytelling
Trends in Communication & Information TechnologyJOUR 4871-003
The digital storytellingtools you learn todaywill be used in yournext media job ...
But they’ll either changedramatically in years ahead,
or be replaced bysomething better ...
In your media/news career,you will continually belearning new tools that
do not exist yet.
A sea change in content-creation tools
FROM TO
Client-based software(InDesign, Dreamweaver, etc.)
More cloud-based services(Storify, ThinkLink, etc.)
Exceptions like QuarkXpress:Client tool publishes tomultiple digital platforms
Types of digital content-creation tools
Curation tools/services
Multimedia
Maps
Screencasting
Timeline creators
Data visualization
Curation tools and services
Free
Platform used by journalisticpartners (including independentjournalists); Demotix partner
Free or premium account
Free tool to read, publish, and share documents and written
works; sell them
Assemble content from your social-mediaaccounts; create timeline, Pinterest-like
collection board of contentFree, premium, or business
account; curate content intodigital “magazines”
Storify: Free, widely used curation toolEmbed what you create on website ... Easily combine original and curated content
Bundlr: Pinterest-like curation toolEmbed what you create on website ... Free or $19.99/year premium account
Multimedia tools and services
Free or premium account;innovative interactive images
Free for now (beta period)
Free or premium account;“better” alternative to Powerpointpresentations ... Also a good tool
for news presentation
Free or premium accounts;turns your photos, video clips, and
music into video in minutes ...embeddable; why not for news?
Free or premium account;create interactive collages;
embeddable, free
Free for now;combine photos, video, audio,
blogs into embeddablemultimedia presentation
Meograph: ‘4-dimensional’ storytelling tool
Combines maps, timeline, links, photos, video, audio into embeddable multimedia presentation;new form of interactive story that can be watched (TV-like) or explored at user’s speed
Currently free to use
ThingLink: Embed many forms of contenton top of photo, map, etc.
Freeor
premiumaccount
Sidebar/accompanimentfor text story...
ORself-contained
story
Prezi: Not just for presentations ... Why not news?
In-class assignment: Create a mock multimedia story
Storify.com
ThingLink.com
Meograph.com
Animoto.com
Prezi.com
East Coast hurricane
Impact on Manhattan
Tools Topics