The third installment of Ohio University’s “Soul of Athens” Website launched June 1st, featuring 41 new projects from more than 50 photographers, designers, Web developers and writers. With another unique interface and innovative easter eggs throughout, I might argue that this is the best version yet.
SSND multimedia winners were announced today with winners in four categories: Best Overall College Newspaper Web Site, Best mini-site/special section of a Web site, Best interactive infographic, and Best multimedia slideshow. I was honored to be one of three judges, along with Journerdism’s Will Sullivan and graphic artist William Neff. Some of our comments have also been posted on the SSND blog, but I would like to highlight some entries in particular to discuss specifics in content, structure and quality.
University of Miami graduate student Andrea Ballocchi Coudeu posted a link on Facebook to a blog, VisualJournalism, that features projects by the school’s visual journalism students. Maintained by Kim Grinfeder, this is a great resource to promote students’ work, as well as to educate professionals about Miami’s visual program. I wish every Journalism school was utilizing Twitter, blogs and Facebook groups to promote their class projects …
Miami professor Rich Beckman has done it again. He is leading a massive project with more than 50 students to document the Special Olympics’ World Winter Game in Boise, Idaho. Deemed “the largest international sporting and humanitarian event of the year, with more than 2,000 athletes from almost 100 countries,” Beckman and his journalists will be working around the clock to deliver multimedia content for a week full of competitions and events.
As multimedia master’s students pitch their thesis projects for 2008-2009, I looked back at previous projects. Let’s examine Columbia University’s last crop of projects to see what techniques and tools they are teaching their new media students.