NOTE: The deadline for your final project is noon, Monday, April 20. Late submissions will not be accepted.

There will be no formal session on April 14. We will use the session for housekeeping; viz:

  • Soundslides completion (some teams had to make changes – these must be done before class on April 14)
  • Ensuring published Soundslides are linked to the Google map
  • Reviewing progress of your final project.

Well done those of you who posted your first drafts to your blogs by the deadline on  April 6. Some students had yet to finalise their projects by the deadline which is a matter of concern. Remember the final deadline is noon on April 20 for EVERTHING to be finalised and posted to the Joomla site.

Can you now proceed to start uploading what you have to the Joomla site.

BY NOON ON MONDAY, TUESSDAY APRIL 14 YOU MUST HAVE POSTED THE BARE BONES OF YOUR FINAL PROJECT TO JOOMLA.

Those who have done their first drafts will have no problem with this.

I need to see at the very least:

  • A working headline
  • The intro
  • Where the various elements fit in

Your Joomla categories are stated here on the class wiki

Reminder: Joomla tutorials are available here

In the final class of the semester on April 21 you will present your project to the class. You will need to describe what worked, what didn’t and what you would do differently in future. Once it has been approved and gone “live” on the Hongkong Stories website, you will need to link it to the site’s Google map. The project will not be considered complete until that Google map stage has been completed.

Please double-check the final project requirements. Purely FYI, I will be grading this according to the following broad-brush criteria:

  • Journalism – how well it tells the story for a non-Chinese audience with little knowledge of Hong Kong; proper sourcing and attribution, legal use of elements, inverted pyramid style of reporting, tight reporting, good use of different media to best tell elements of the story
  • Use & quality of photos/graphics
  • Quality & coherence of text
  • Quality & coherence of audio & multimedia
  • Attention to detail
  • Overall effectiveness

Tips:

This is not a wikipedia project. It is a journalism project. You need to tell a story. Some of the most difficult decisions you will face concern what you need to leave out.

Ensure photos etc are correctly compressed and formatted for the web so they load quickly.

Take advantage of the web medium. Use hyperlinks to third party sites when appropriate.