Spicing It Up a Bit for In-Class Viewing

Spicy foods make for great content, it seems. Videos in the Hot Ones series, wherein celebrities eat hot wings and answer questions, regularly gain multiple million views. With almost 350 episodes in the First We Feast channel series, it shows no signs of slowing down. The Paqui One Chip challenge, which features Carolina Reaper and…

Teaching a Multimedia Storytelling Class

With Interactive Documentary Production on hold for this semester, I am teaching Multimedia Storytelling instead. Multimedia Storytelling focuses on traditional forms of media production. My focus for the course is issue-based, nonfiction storytelling. In the first couple weeks of the class, students chose a social issue to work with throughout the semester. A sampling of…