Reposting this to help you prepare for the final exam.
http://www.newsroom101.com/
Other resources:
http://www.edbond.com/editing/errors.html
http://www.edbond.com/editing/finalguide.html
These are the sources that you have that can help you review for the exam:
My online notes, the quizzes, the pretest, the practice for the midterm, the midterm, the notes/comments from the rotation assignment, your AP Stylebook and the "Working With Words" book. Any questions? Bring them to class on Wednesday or Friday.
Don't forget to use proper copy editing marks.
This link might also be a good refresher for some:
http://www.edbond.com/editing/otherrules.html
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Amended bounty hunter policy
To follow up on an announcement I made in class, I have amended the bounty hunter policy. For students who have earned enough bounty hunter points to cover all points missed in quizzes, I will allow future bounty hunter points to be applied to their midterm score as well.
However, when you apply for such points, I will be much more stringent in what I am looking for. These bounty hunter points should demonstrate your mastery of AP Style. You need to find meaningful errors, not just a missing space or something caused by a malfunction of a layout program. Also, if you find that a publication has 10 examples of the same mistake throughout a piece, I will only count it as one bounty hunter.
I'm being tougher in these situations, but this will have a bigger payoff for you. This change is expected to help you.
However, when you apply for such points, I will be much more stringent in what I am looking for. These bounty hunter points should demonstrate your mastery of AP Style. You need to find meaningful errors, not just a missing space or something caused by a malfunction of a layout program. Also, if you find that a publication has 10 examples of the same mistake throughout a piece, I will only count it as one bounty hunter.
I'm being tougher in these situations, but this will have a bigger payoff for you. This change is expected to help you.
Final project suggestions
Nov. 13
Sorry I can't be there today. My youngest was sick this morning, and I needed to stay home to take care of him.
For your final projects, I just wanted to start you off with some direction and some inspiration on page design.
Of course, you should be familiar with the broad outlines of the project assignment and the related links, here:
http://www.edbond.com/editing/finalproject/
But what I want you to remember is that your final project is meant to be something you will be proud of, something that you will be able to look back on for years and say, "Yes, I did that."
This is something you might want to show potential employers.
It's a lot of hard work, but but when you are pursuing a cool concept -- and there are some cool concepts I've been hearing about -- this can be exciting and fun.
This is meant to be more than just getting the stories and the elements of the page on paper. It's about jumping off the page with eye-popping designs. Just flipping through the later chapters (5-8) of the Harrower book will give you ideas. But Chapter 8 is especially useful for this project.
I'm going to be posting links about design to this blog today. Please keep refreshing the blog.
I will also be available through e-mail (ebond@ithaca.edu) and as PrfBond on AOL Instant Messenger and iChat.
Some links:
http://www.ronreason.com/
Of course there are the video tutorials on Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
Check the Photoshop tutorial on using layers. It's useful stuff for final projects. I showed you some of that in class. The concepts there are good for combining images and in creating cutouts, where you can actually have the subject of the photo jump out into the text.
FOR INSPIRATION
As always, check out:
http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/
Check the side rail with the designs from all the big newspapers. Today's San Jose Mercury News is very good, just for its big, dramatic centerpiece.
Check out Le Devoir in Montreal. It's in French, but the design is singular, with dominant art. It is very clean and simple and very eye catching.
And of course:
The Newseum
But you should also check out:
http://sportsdesigner.blogs.com/1/
There is a lot of dramatic stuff here, but you should remember that with Indesign, Photoshop and the right images to work with, you have all the tools to do what these professionals are doing.
Where to get images
Of course, you need to list the in the attached sheet where you are getting your copy and your photos from. And of course, photos need to have cutlines and CREDIT lines for the sources.
But I want to discourage the habit of just ripping photos off a Web site, and then just telling me you got the image from "Google Images." Google Images is not a source of the photos, but a search engine that helps you find the image.
Images on the Web are protected by copyright law and cannot be used unless written permission is given by the owner of the copyright, or the image is in the public domain. While images on the Internet are protected by copyright law, there are many sites that make images available for your use. There are many stock photography sites that provide images for a fee. There are also certain sites that allow the use of their images for personal or educational use without a fee. Make sure to read the copyright restrictions on these sites carefully. United States government Web sites are a good place to look for images that are in the public domain and do not have copyright restriction against their use.
If you find a site where you want to use an image and you are not sure whether you can use it, I'd recommend that you write an e-mail to the owner of the image to ask for permission. You should explain that you would be using this for a student project and this is not for commercial purposes.
Since your projects will be on the Web, we should be mindful of using images with permission.
You have a lot of images that you can use through the Ithaca College Library.
Follow this link: http://www.ithacalibrary.com/research/databases.php?type=images
You'll find there a database of Associated Press images and a host of other sources.
There are a lot of other public-use images out there. Anything from a government agency like NASA can be used.
Here is a Web page with a list of sources to "Public Domain, Copyright Free, Open Source, and Student Use Images and Media"
Here's a useful discussion on copyright:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Bottom line: What this all means
I may want to publish examples of your work on my Web site. I also would like to post your Web pages on to my site: www.edbond.com.
However, to do so, you need to use images with permission or images that are OK within the principles of Fair Use and in the public domain.
Using the image as part of a parody -- making fun of the topic -- would be legal. So, some of your projects may be OK under that rule.
But if your work can't be considered a parody and uses images that are not in the public domain or don't have permission from the owner, then I won't be posting it online.
Sorry I can't be there today. My youngest was sick this morning, and I needed to stay home to take care of him.
For your final projects, I just wanted to start you off with some direction and some inspiration on page design.
Of course, you should be familiar with the broad outlines of the project assignment and the related links, here:
http://www.edbond.com/editing/finalproject/
But what I want you to remember is that your final project is meant to be something you will be proud of, something that you will be able to look back on for years and say, "Yes, I did that."
This is something you might want to show potential employers.
It's a lot of hard work, but but when you are pursuing a cool concept -- and there are some cool concepts I've been hearing about -- this can be exciting and fun.
This is meant to be more than just getting the stories and the elements of the page on paper. It's about jumping off the page with eye-popping designs. Just flipping through the later chapters (5-8) of the Harrower book will give you ideas. But Chapter 8 is especially useful for this project.
I'm going to be posting links about design to this blog today. Please keep refreshing the blog.
I will also be available through e-mail (ebond@ithaca.edu) and as PrfBond on AOL Instant Messenger and iChat.
Some links:
http://www.ronreason.com/
Of course there are the video tutorials on Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
Check the Photoshop tutorial on using layers. It's useful stuff for final projects. I showed you some of that in class. The concepts there are good for combining images and in creating cutouts, where you can actually have the subject of the photo jump out into the text.
FOR INSPIRATION
As always, check out:
http://www.newsdesigner.com/blog/
Check the side rail with the designs from all the big newspapers. Today's San Jose Mercury News is very good, just for its big, dramatic centerpiece.
Check out Le Devoir in Montreal. It's in French, but the design is singular, with dominant art. It is very clean and simple and very eye catching.
And of course:
The Newseum
But you should also check out:
http://sportsdesigner.blogs.com/1/
There is a lot of dramatic stuff here, but you should remember that with Indesign, Photoshop and the right images to work with, you have all the tools to do what these professionals are doing.
Where to get images
Of course, you need to list the in the attached sheet where you are getting your copy and your photos from. And of course, photos need to have cutlines and CREDIT lines for the sources.
But I want to discourage the habit of just ripping photos off a Web site, and then just telling me you got the image from "Google Images." Google Images is not a source of the photos, but a search engine that helps you find the image.
Images on the Web are protected by copyright law and cannot be used unless written permission is given by the owner of the copyright, or the image is in the public domain. While images on the Internet are protected by copyright law, there are many sites that make images available for your use. There are many stock photography sites that provide images for a fee. There are also certain sites that allow the use of their images for personal or educational use without a fee. Make sure to read the copyright restrictions on these sites carefully. United States government Web sites are a good place to look for images that are in the public domain and do not have copyright restriction against their use.
If you find a site where you want to use an image and you are not sure whether you can use it, I'd recommend that you write an e-mail to the owner of the image to ask for permission. You should explain that you would be using this for a student project and this is not for commercial purposes.
Since your projects will be on the Web, we should be mindful of using images with permission.
You have a lot of images that you can use through the Ithaca College Library.
Follow this link: http://www.ithacalibrary.com/research/databases.php?type=images
You'll find there a database of Associated Press images and a host of other sources.
There are a lot of other public-use images out there. Anything from a government agency like NASA can be used.
Here is a Web page with a list of sources to "Public Domain, Copyright Free, Open Source, and Student Use Images and Media"
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic98.htm
Here's a useful discussion on copyright:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copyright.html
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Bottom line: What this all means
I may want to publish examples of your work on my Web site. I also would like to post your Web pages on to my site: www.edbond.com.
However, to do so, you need to use images with permission or images that are OK within the principles of Fair Use and in the public domain.
Using the image as part of a parody -- making fun of the topic -- would be legal. So, some of your projects may be OK under that rule.
But if your work can't be considered a parody and uses images that are not in the public domain or don't have permission from the owner, then I won't be posting it online.
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