“Tweets that can’t be beat” on Storify- Your Experience

Hello JSU Storytellers!  Students in the Multimedia Reporting class were recently given a Tweet Week Assignment.  The goal of this assignment was to give you an opportunity to immerse yourself in Twitter, which is an online social networking service that allows users to send and receive short 140-character messages called “tweets”.   Your Tweet Week/Blog/Storify Assignment  was to do a minimum of three tweets daily for five days.  You were also asked to follow 10 journalists and/or media organizations. And then you were asked to showcase your tweet experience using a tool called storify.com .  Storify is a way to add multimedia elements from across the web into one comprehensive story.  Finally you were required to share that storify.com link through Twitter and also share your Tweet Week experience on your journalist blog,

Now we want to hear all about it! So how was your Tweet Week and Storify experience? You were asked to summarize your experience in your blogs that you recently created.

Please “comment” and summarize your experience in one paragraph and include the link to your storify you published.

Multimedia Reporting: Begin with the End in Mind!

Greetings:

As we start a new semester, let’s start by beginning with the end in mind.The goal for most of you is to land a job after graduation. News directors and communications employers are looking for students that are multi-talented.By now you’v e heard the term “backpack journalist” or “One-man Band”.

Basically it means you have to wear many hats:

This means knowing how to:

• Write
• Shoot
• Edit
• Post Content to Web

If you don’t have these skills, chances are you will not end up with a job. So ask yourself these questions:

1. Can I shoot my own stories?
2. Can I write a reader story, vo, vosot or package?
3. Can I edit my own packages?
4. Can I post a story or picture to the web?
5. Can I use social media to help tell stories?

This course will help you sharpen your skills to be able to answer yes to all the above questions so you can become a multi-talented and multi-platform journalist.

Happy storytelling!

Dr. Fridge