This is the weekend edition of TheMarioBlog and will be updated as needed, The next blog post is Monday, March 29.
In case you missed any of these items, here they are. Plus, we take a look at some of my students’ midterm projects–the creation of a newsletter.
Those newsletters keep coming…..
The Los Angeles Times launches 8 to 3, a newsletter for parents about kids, school and education →“We begin this endeavor painfully aware of how the pandemic has upended education and exposed the depth of inequities families face. Our foremost mission is to help navigate new challenges with powerful storytelling, useful guides, vital data and personal stories — whether on campus in a classroom or in front of a laptop in the living room. The Times’ coverage of COVID-19-era schooling places considerable attention on systemic inequities, which we will continue to explore in depth.”
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“Every Monday evening, our newsletter grapples frankly with just these issues in all their complexity — education, equity, burnout and much more. We’ll guide you through the latest news and research, we’ll share fresh perspectives, and we’ll want to hear yours.”
My students’ newsletters…
Speaking of newsletters and how trendy and important they are:
For their Midterm project, students in my Multiplatform Design & Storytelling class at Columbia University were assigned to create a newsletter for an existing organization that they feel could use one, or to start from zero and conceptualize a brand new newsletter.
I will try to profile them here a few at a time. Here is one that caught my attention, called 1:7 (one theme explored by 7 storytellers) with videos and photos from around the world, dealing with subjects such as human trafficking and police brutality. Take a look at this project by students Victor Raison and Kate Stockrahm (Class of 2021)
Here is a newsletter concept for Good Newsletter, a newsletter created by Good Good Good Co that sends a curated list of feel-good news stories every week. This one created by Columbia students Madeline Johnson & Sara Hopkins:
Inquire about our mobile storytelling workshops!
Every week I bring my mobile storytelling workshop to a different newsroom around the world. I begin with a 90-minute presentation about the essentials of crafting/editing/designing stories for mobile consumption. Then I break the participants into groups and for two hours they produce a mobile story which they then present to the entire group for evaluation. It works all the time.
Another type of Garcia Media program is when we sign up for mobile storytelling coaching after completion of the first workshop. Once a week, or as planned, I work virtually with a team of reporters, editors, designers on actual stories that will be published as linear mobile stories. Let me know if you are interested in more information: mario@garciamedia.com
It’s all in a day’s work
What a day Thursday was. As it happened, I had a 3-hour dental appointment that I could not skip and/nor reschedule. However, I also had committed to a Master Class on Mobile Design for graduate students in Prof. Dr. Christian Fortanet’s course at the University of Alicante in Spain. So, I did the Master Class from the dentist’s office for one hour, then continued back with the dental procedure. It was challenging to not only do this presentation in Spanish, but also while still numbed. It worked. All in a day’s work. The technology available for us to communicate remotely never ceases to amaze me. Multitasking at its best. Thanks for your incredibly superb support, Dr. Steven Cordoves.
Professors: get your review version of The Story on time for fall classes
As an academic, I know the importance of having the right tools to advance our students, especially on the important subject of mobile storytelling. Please drop me an email if you would like to sample The Story in its digital edition: mario@garciamedia.com
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The full trilogy of The Story now available–3 books to guide you through a mobile first strategy. Whether you’re a reporter, editor, designer, publisher, corporate communicator, The Story is for you! https://amazon
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