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The Owl College: Introduction to Online Storytelling

Course information

Dates 15 & 18 July 2024
Time 9.30 am - 12.30 pm
Cost $39
Delivery UC Campus
Commitment 2 days (6 hours)
Enrolments close 10 July 2024

About the course

The Owl College is a collaboration between the University of Canberra Faculty of Arts and Design and secondary students in Canberra and the capital region.

Over two face-to-face workshops, you will be supported to publish an article at The Owl, the student publication of the Journalism and Sports Media programs.

After being introduced to the basic principles of journalism and online publishing, you will pitch and produce a multimedia piece centred around a newsworthy interview and creative photographs taken with a smartphone.

Upon completion, you will have an understanding of basic journalism practice, including research, production, and editorial workflows.

What you’ll learn/produce:

  • appreciation of basic journalistic practice and editorial workflows,
  • development of basic practical skills such as interviewing, researching and mobile photography,
  • production of online content using a Content Management System (CMS).

Course requirements

Open to all students in Years 10, 11 & 12.

Course presenters

Learn from industry experts

Dr Scott Bridges

Lecturer in Communication and Media, Discipline Lead for Journalism

Scott is a Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Canberra and the Discipline Lead in Journalism. In 2014, after working in a range of television newsrooms in Australia and overseas, he published the book ’18 Days: Al Jazeera English and the Egyptian Revolution’. Between 2014 and 2021, Scott was the Managing Director of Global Journalism Exchange which facilitated journalism study tours between Australia and the Middle East-North Africa region.

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