The 10 week new media training tour depart soon and will feature a two day visit to the site of journalism’s most provocative new publishing experiment - FUTUROOM - in the Czech Republic.
This map mashup details the 10-week-long “New Media Training Tour” that starts in Norman Oklahoma this week and ends with a splash in the Red Sea the first week of December. In between there are training stops in London, Toronto, Moscow, Paris, Prague, Harrisburg, Cairo, and Berlin.
I will try to blog some of the highlights from the road, but would never attempt to compete with Charles Apple’s excellent blow-by-blow reportage from his recent trip to Cape Town.
I tend to make short documentary films, Annotated still photo slideshows and Google map mashups to take readers along with me.
After the Sept 25-26 APME Newstrain workshop in Oklahoma I will finally be seeing much more about a new working model for journalism and newsroom structure at the FUTUROOM in Prague, Czech Republic on the 1st & 2nd October 2009.
I have worked as a consultant to FUTUROOM this year and finally we can show our colleagues a new model for journalism that inverts many of the dynamics of production and community engagement.
It’s a fast trip over there and then quickly back to Toronto.
But, before leave Prague, I will also deliver a new presentation on visual literacy and managing multiple narratives for visiting editors in-chief from European media houses.
I’ll join fellow design and visual narrative colleagues Mario R. Garcia, Ph.D. and Jördis Guzmán-Bulla in the Second Session.
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