A participant at the Chicago training learning to edit video with iMovie that he shot with a Flip camera.
On July 9, I led a social media training at the Knight Fellowship 2009 Reunion at Stanford University. The group of 26 participants ranged from veteran Associated Press journalist Mike Feinsilber, who was in the first class of Knight Fellows in 1967, to 2010 Knight Fellow Maureen Fan of the Washington Post. Attendees started Twitter and LinkedIn accounts, signed up for Facebook, uploaded their photos, tweeted their recent articles and created their own blogs using WordPress.
Earlier this year, I developed and led three multimedia trainings for the Journalism and Women Symposium. They occurred at Columbia College Chicago on May 2, at Stanford University on May 30 and at the Medill News Service in Washington, D.C., on June 6.
Instructors included NPR’s Maria Godoy, investigative broadcast reporter Roberta Baskin, Chicago Public Radio’s Natalie Moore, Latina Voices’ Teresa Puente, the Chicago Tribune’s Charlie Meyerson, videographer Jim Irwin, the Washington Post’s Kim Hart, Maura Judkis from U.S. News & World Report and University of Colorado journalism professor Sandra Fish.
Participants learned when — and why — to use multimedia, how to build a slide show using Soundslides and tips for interviewing on camera. Some shot and edited video, others created a blog using WordPress.
Participants at the Chicago training interviewing each other on video using a Flip camera.
Reporter Leslie Albrecht put what she learned about editing video into action two days after attending the May 30 training. She shot this footage about a car wreck. It was uploaded to the Modesto Bee web site that day.
I created a wiki with resources for workshop participants here: http://jawsmultimedia.wetpaint.com/
