MC409 Tweet Week Experience – due February 1st…

Ok JSU Storytellers…  You’ve just finished your Tweet Week.  Briefly discuss your tweet week experience.  Not your lifetime experience, but this assignment experience. However, you may summarize a comparison of your experience on using Twitter during “Tweet Week” to your past experience with Twitter, Blogging, Facebook or other social media.  For instance, any challenges???  How easy did you find it tweeting on a daily basis.  (250 words minimum).  Include a link to your twitter account  and a link to your Tweet Week storify  within your post.

We Begin with the End in Mind in MC409

Greetings:

As we start a new semester, let’s start Spring 2015 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’ve 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?
6. Do I have an online portfolio?

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.  Your first assignment — Respond to the following poll:

Now…What’s your story???  Reply to this post in no more than 300 words about who you are, your passions and career goal(s). Tell me one skill you wish to sharpen this semester.

Happy Storytelling!