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MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL SKILLS COURSE FOR JOURNALISTS This course is packaged to empower Journalisms in Uganda to offer quality multimedia …
UGX 1,200,000
Course Currilcum
- Understanding the media market trends Unlimited
- MP: Introduction to Multimedia and multimedia storytelling 00:00:00
- Before you get to the work of shooting and editing and putting your story together, the real work is learning how to identify and pursue a story that is worth your time and the audience’s time.
- MP: The New Media Thinking FREE 00:00:00
- This is a foundation class for the digital journalism and communication training we offer. Many journalists and media practitioners were trained as print, TV, Radio or internet journalists, but multimedia is about telling stories in more than one medium. Many media practitioners still think reaching people with news and information is either through newspaper, TV, Radio or internet. Today people have a lot of digital tools and platforms from which not only to access, but contribute to and share news and information. Why is it important for journalists and media houses to tell stories or to reach out to people in more than one medium on these digital tools and platforms and what platforms are available to enable this? Appreciate the urgent need for change to utilize new media tools to tell multimedia stories.
- OJ: Introduction to online Journalism FREE 00:20:00
- This unit gives you the introduction and objectives of this course
- OJ: Internet Search strategies for Journalists aka Computer Aided Reporting Unlimited
- Now that we have covered the topic about computer Aided research and reporting, lets dig into a topic about searching strategies on internet for journalists.
- OJ: Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change Unlimited
- This Unit is about Aggregation and content curation.
- DP: Website Design Basics and content management systems 4 days
- Basic Web design
- DP: Search Engine Optimisation 04:00:00
- Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your online content so that a search engine shows it as a top result for searches of a certain keyword. SEO is the magic you have to work on your article in order to make Google very likely to include your post as one of the top results whenever someone searches for that keyword.
- OJ: Writing for the web (What online media and journalists need to be aware of) Unlimited
- The new media revolution has made many to realize the importance of online and mobile platforms of communication. As more and more people go online to meet their news, information and entertainment needs, and many more use mobile phones and other gadgets to access the news and information, it is vital for journalists and all writers to write and package news and information appropriately for online.
- DSE: The digital security mindset Unlimited
- This unit will help you achieve a positive attitude towards Digital media and New media trends.
- DP: Digital Video Production for learning online and mobile 00:00:00
- DP: Audio production online and mobile 00:00:00
- DIG: Tools for creating winning graphics 04:30:00
- This unit introduces you to tools and concepts for good graphic design
- DP: Digital photography and imaging for content development 04:00:00
- Digital photography, Learning all about photography
- DP: Multimedia packaging and publishing practice and tools 4 days
- MULTIMEDIA PACKAGING & PUBLISHING PRACTICES AND TOOLS
- TMJ: New Media Revenue Models Unlimited
- This Unit is about New media Revenue models or digital revenue models. They are areas where one can earn from the work they do online.
- TMJ: Basic Mapping for news and information 04:40:00
- This Unit is about Mapping for journalists for new information
- DP: Immersive educational content development and Virtual Reality Unlimited
- This unit is about Immersive educational content development and Virtual Reality has gained a reputation for delivering outstanding virtual experiences over its short history such as Apollo 11 VR and Titanic VR. Virtual Reality is a simulated experience that places the user in a virtual environment that they can interact with.
- SME: Top 10 Social media engagement & monitoring tools. Unlimited
- Dont stay in the dark over your business or brand
- PJ: Crowdsourcing and crowdsourced journalism Unlimited
- This Unit is about Crowd sourcing and crowd sourced journalism.
- DV: Hands-on experience using different data visualization tools Unlimited
- TMJ: Live reporting and Live Streaming Unlimited
- This Unit is about Live Reporting and Live Streaming.
- OJ: How to create and run effective blogs Unlimited
- This units looks at blogs. I gives common characteristics of a blog, explains how blogging became a phenomenon, how to get started with story writing, how to handle comments, and also gieves Blogging Resources.
- Text To Speech/Speech To Text Tools and Software Unlimited
- This unit details on the different tools to convert text to speech and speech to text and translation tools
- Getting Royalty free media and Key Digital Learning Resources 00:00:00
- DP: Tools for authoring interactive learning content 00:00:00
