This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
This four-week course will facilitate a fire hose of new thinking about the nexus of software, journalism and news. Over the next few weeks, you’ll be working on your own ideas to help shape the future of the news industry that we’ll invite you to pitch.
A knowledge (and love) of the open web is helpful for this course…an interest in learning more is essential.
WEBCRAFT
Deadline:
Monday, July 18 (no later than 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. BST)
Task:
A 300 to 500 word blog post.
Please stick to the word limit -- use visuals in place of words if you're having trouble with this limit.
For more detailed guidelines on the 'Weekly blog assignment' visit:
http://p2pu.org/en/groups/knight-mozilla-learning-lab/content/weekly-blog-assignment/
With this blog we’re looking for you to engage with the weekly lectures – in part, this is to demonstrate your understanding of the lectures and to describe how the lessons apply to your personal project idea.
How to submit:
Post a link to your blog post below as a comment.
I found myself wondering if [my concept] would be more useful as a visualisation or a tool; can it be both and still be effective in both arenas?
Inspired by Aza, I decided to write about the power of story.
Going beyond the "big idea" and starting to focus the project.
Use case that people can relate to are key, but pies-in-the-sky are fun and needed too!
How to turn the big idea of yesterday into the focused project of today
http://ils.sont.la/post/how-turn-big-idea-yesterday-focused-project-today
Inspired by the talks last week I have new new challenge.
> To improve the display of related articles.
I took out my pen and sketch pad, read all about it in 'Tell me more':
http://sedefgavaz.tumblr.com/post/7753640366/tell-me-more
The Art of JFDI: http://slifty.com/2011/07/the-art-of-jfdi/
"It’s an incredibly humbling experience to sit down with your best ideas and crank out something quick and dirty for the world to see. In order to make something, you have to get your head out of the clouds and come careening down to earth."
There's my nugget on the Aza overview of prototyping together with a bit of coverage on an interesting article on the young (22!) designer, Rob Mason who led the Facebook / Skype integration.
Enjoy....
Dan
Blog post!: http://sethvincent.com/post/7747889254/the-first-week-of-the-knight-mozilla-learning-lab
I don't know anything. (And why you should be jealous.)
My official blog post for this week is largely a response to Aza Raskin's encouragement to just go make stuff. Sketch, prototype, whatever!
I'm finiding that trying to address all three lectures in one 500 word post difficult, what with all the ideas I want to share with everyone. I think from here on I will be posting a response to each lecture and writing a weekly summary for my official weekly blog post.
Here is "Feature Creep" or "How I started to learn how to stop loving everything and get down to the essence of the problem" or "Something is happening and you don't know what it is... Do you, Mr. Jones."
Here's my post-of-the-week, talking a bit about how my initial ideas created too sterile an interface. This is something that I think is a critical point for news applications, though: finding a balance between neutrality and engagement. The Etherpad notes for Amanda's talk included this point:
Which I'm not sure is quite what she said. I would argue that figuring out how to tell a story with data is not the same as figuring out what story the data contains. I think Amanda's point was more about showing the story than just the data itself, which is a different problem (and one that I failed at in my initial prototype).
I could keep changing my mind about what I think forever. I call my homework post "Let's try some mockups" and then I end up bumping my mockups onto another post. I'm not good at titles.
Hello Knight-Mozilla community! Here are my initial thoughts after starting to digest all lectures!
Learning Lab 1st Week: You Can Change the World!
Best,
Manuel
I've had to be a bit vicious with myself on the word count, but voila :) Prototyping Reputation.
Post #1: Solving the Right Problem
In cinemagraphs and the attention span problem I dive into the phenomenon of cinemagraphs within the Tumblr culture, talk about the learning process around my project, link to what I consider to be my prototype-in-one-day and define a memorable tag line for it: It's like Twitter for video. Week one assignment: check!
Hey everyone, I'm happy to share with you my blog assignment for Week 1. After the lecture from @azaaza I began questioning the seed idea I initially had in mind. This post reflects my process in coming to the true problem and solution I'd like to develop for the scope of this class. I'd love your thoughts and feedback if you have a quick moment.
How can we make news Cool again?
Thanks, and hope you all had a great weekend!
-Nicole
Took some time, but it here is, my first #MozNewsLab blog post. A shame some ideas I had for this blog post became unused, but oh well. :)
Hi learning lab team and coaches. I am thrilled, and somewhat nervous, to present my week one blog assignment. I applied what I learned from @azaaza in following his prototype steps with a prototype pitch of my own. I could use any feedback on the pitch if you have a few minutes to spare.
