Citizen Journalist Training
The UpTake is providing free training this weekend for would-be CJs.
This weekend The UpTake has scheduled its first video citizen journalism class. It’s free and open to the public (registration is required ahead of time through Wellstone Action). The class will cover the impact video citizen journalism has had and can have, cover story telling techniques and some of the nuts and bolts of shooting and editing video.
As any journalist will tell you, covering news is really a team sport. This is especially true in video citizen journalism. It takes people who can shoot video, contribute story ideas, research, and coordinate other volunteers. This weekend’s class will give you the blue print of how to work as a team.
The training takes place this Saturday (Oct 27) from 11am-3pm at the Galaxie LIbrary in Apple Valley.
Let me know if you would like to broadcast this training session live and have an online recording of it afterward.
I have a FlashMeeting account and I volunteer to book a session for you.
Required on your end: A computer with a USB cam and mic, high-speed internet connection and a person to point the camera and log into the FlashMeeting. Everyone on your end appearing in the FlashMeeting would have to give permission to be recorded.
Here is a link to FlashMeeting:
http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/
The FlashMeeting service is provided at not cost by the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK
Here is a link to how I have used FlashMeeting to promote cultural interests (restoring historic buildings):
http://historichomeworks.com/hhw/conf/vidconf.htm
If this sound interesting, feel free to give me a call. 207 773-2306 or send email.
John Leeke