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New projects & back to school
Well, it’s good to back from vacation. Two 16-hour drives and a bout with food poisoning later, I’m glad to be getting back to my school/work routine.
Tomorrow I will start what is probably my second-to-last semester at the University of Florida. I will also be returning to my job with the university Web administration office.
I will be taking five classes:
- Intro to Public Speaking
- Tennis 2
- The Literature of Jorge Amado (Brazil) and Bahia in Translation
- Law of Mass Communication
- Applied Interactive Newspapers
Applied Interactive Newspapers is what the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications calls a “capstone” course. It is the most advanced online-journalism class offered at the school. The course is taught by Prof. David Carlson and Dave Stanton.
The class is both a new chance to learn as well as a chance to get some hands-on experience in the college’s Interactive Media Lab. Under Carlson and Stanton’s watch and with support from The Gainesville Sun, my peers and I will produce a Gainesville Sun publication, Newszine, described as a “dynamic news publication intended to represent typical systems used in newsrooms throughout the world.”
The Newszine Web site features full-length stories as well as multimedia ranging from videos, video podcasts, slideshows and more.
Aside from the publication, there are a couple of other interesting things scheduled. We will be going over the principles of XML, RSS, PHP, ASP, MySQL and others. There will be individual projects, group projects, video projects and weekly quizzes to keep us sharp on our knowledge of the AP Stylebook.
It is going to be an interesting semester with plenty of work and learning to do. Combining everything I learn from my job and my Applied Interactive Newspapers class, I hope to be ready for a job with a publication’s online team by the year’s end.
