TOPIC: Using Facebook to research a story and find people to interview.
Face + book = people
Making Facebook do what you want it to
Photo by mkhmarketing/CC/flickr.com
Below are some fantastic tips for tweaking your Facebook account and making your newsfeed behave, courtesy author, blogger and self-described tech evangelist Robert Scobie (you can follow him here and see his full list of 22 tips here).
Useful links: Media Project tools
Mapping Stories:
Blogging:
Simple website builders:
Amazingly simple design:
Interactive images and graphics:
Getting organised:
Tutorials and How-Tos:
Infographics
Today’s exercise: take a story in the news and turn it into an infographic.
READ: Some guidelines and tips for making effective graphics
Some examples (which ones work well, and which ones don’t?):
More examples and inspiration: The 100 Best Infographics
Tools for building infographics
Design templates and infographic builders:
Canva
Piktochart
60 awesome free tools (via Canva, including info on where to find illustrations, photographs, fonts and more)
First steps: structuring a story
TOPIC: Structuring a story.
