StoryTelling for New Media

Read: Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold, Introduction and Chapters 1-3. Make sure you read the introduction as it makes the project clear, and he has some important points in this part. Don’t forget to bring the book to class as you will need it.

Write: Write a blog post in the same manner as your previous ones where you quote another blog or article from the internet and comment on said blog/article. However this time instead of writing about text you need to use a picture or a video. That is, for this post you need to insert a picture or a video clip into your blog so that you can write about it, and tell your readers something interesting/meaningful about your chosen image. If you do not know how to insert an image into your blog, you can watch this screencast, at about 6:00 minutes in he goes over adding in a picture. You can also go to the Wordpress FAQ which covers how to post a photo. If you want to embed a video the Wordpress FAQ covers this as well.