Mills College Digital Course Pack: Multimedia Lab (Spring 2012)

Course Pack Overview

Title:
Mills College Digital Course Pack: Multimedia Lab (Spring 2012)
Type:
Digital Course Pack
Cost:
$24.95

About Digital Course Packs

A digital course pack gathers self-directed training and assessments in a convenient package.

This is a series of self-directed courses produced by Poynter's News University covering key aspects of writing and storytelling. This online supplement to in-class meetings and traditional texts is crucial for understanding of news, editing and multimedia. Each of these digital courses has an assessment of your understanding of the information presented, which is part of your final grade in the course.

The courses in this pack are:

  • Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling
  • Writing for the Ear
  • Telling Stories with Sounds
  • Video Storytelling for the Web
  • Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner
  • Language of the Image

This course pack is for students enrolled in Multimedia Lab (Spring 2012) at the Mills College. If you are interested in a course pack for your school, please contact us at info@newsu.org.

Training Partner:

Mills College

Mills is an independent liberal arts college for women with graduate programs for women and men. The College educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept the challenges of their creative visions, and to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to effect thoughtful changes in a global, multicultural society.

Instructor: 

Sarah Pollock

Sarah Pollock has worked in journalism for 30 years. She directs the undergraduate journalism program at Mills College, a women’s college in Oakland, California, and she is Deputy Vice President of JAWS (Journalism & Women Symposium). She has been a senior editor at Mother Jones, editor-in-chief at Pacific Discovery (the magazine of the California Academy of Sciences), and features editor at the Oakland Tribune. She was a staff writer at Newsday and the Hartford Courant, and has written articles, essays and book reviews for magazines and newspapers.