Past video stories. Each has a summary, back story, focus statement and study questions.

"As 2013 comes to a close, I think these student journalists deserve a little bit more recognition. To honor their journalistic endeavors, we've rounded up this year's best articles, projects and multimedia from student publications across the country."

"Earlier this month, a colleague sent me this piece about LeBron James from Grantland. The Grantland piece is a great example of: using data to tell a story converting complex numbers into digestible infographics drawing visuals from an interview, via animated GIFs the expanding array of people engaged in producing journalism (the author is a cartographer and geography professor) The piece clearly demonstrates the vast array of storytelling opportunities digital media present to us. But it illustrates something else to me: the tremendous expectations we have of journalism students and educators to keep up with these skills and tools."

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"A training site for multimedia and online journalists"

"I teach university courses about online journalism and the changing ways we use technologies for communication. I love seeing multimedia used well to tell journalism stories."

"News & Advance photographer Jill Nance has won two awards in the National Press Photographers Association's 2011 Best Of Photojournalism contest. The national awards in the multimedia category were announced on Friday in Durham, N.C.  Nance earned second place in the feature audio-slideshow category for "Special Needs, Special Driver," about Frankie Keen, who drives a Lynchburg City Schools bus for special-needs children.  Other winners in that category were Los Angeles Times, first place; and The New York Times, third place. Nance also won a second-place award in the sports audio-slideshow category for "Comeback Coach," about Brookville High School softball coach Gary Ferguson and his recovery from leukemia.  Other winners: Los Angeles Times, first place; and Associated Press, third place."

Examples of audio/photo slideshows using soundslides

"A teen preacher, a teen mother-to-be, BMX racers, a Hillcrest girl already modeling in New York and Chicago, and an old-fashioned barber shop highlight the first HTV Magazine of the school year."

"What would happen if you asked high school students to help create a 21st-century portrait of the country by turning their cameras on their neighborhoods, families, friends and schools? You would have "My Hometown" - a vibrant document of 4,289 images submitted by teenagers in school- or community-based photography programs across the United States, including rural villages and urban neighborhoods, wealthy suburbs and blue-collar Rust Belt towns."

"Fortunately, the advent and ease of video making can turn anyone with any kind of camera device into a video producer, and I love this fact! But what I love even more, are the plethora of video production websites and tutorials that are available to help us as advisers."

"The Storymakers app recognizes excellence in original student nonfiction that pushes the traditional boundaries of narrative. The 17 features appearing in the app represent the Grand Prize Winners and Finalists from the 2013 Digital Storymakers Award, sponsored by Atavist and the Pearson Foundation."

"In a what's-your-status world filled with overwhelming pressure to look camera-ready at all times, it can be liberating to drop the facade and laugh at society's obsession with the exterior. Thus, in the last few years, the ugly selfie - a selfie that's intentionally silly or unattractive - was born."

"High school students have helped bring about a repeal of a California district's stifling new social media policy, which threatened to strip students of extracurricular activities for engaging in online activities, even in their free time."

This backpack report by HTVer Taylor Huff looks at the free breakfast program that just started at Hillcrest. (Our weekly "backpack stories" require HTV staffers to shoot, write and edit a piece by themselves)

"Understanding that students tend to be strong visual learners, the Student Reporting Labs program has supplemented its online curriculum with an eight-part instructional video series that explores topics such as: video production roles, location, setup, audio, lighting, white-balance, interviewing and B-roll."

MediaStorm guides on using Premiere Pro

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