I stream, You stream, We all scream for Livestream!

Today we discussed two streaming apps on the rise: Meerkat and Periscope. Streaming apps allow you to broadcast video to the web instantly. They turn you into a live-on-the-scene reporter similar to what you see on TV. In both cases, both apps post links to your Twitter feed that allow people to join and comment.

Thanks to all who participated in our MC409 MMR first livestream using the Meerkat app. Now everybody in the “livestream” pool!

Your assignment is to do a livestream with either Meerkat or Periscope during Mass Communications Day and write a blog post about your experience. So how did it go???

Watching TV News: How You can be a Smarter Viewer????

Ok JSU Storytellers…. So you’ve just accessed the newsu tutorial: “Watching TV News: How to Be a Smarter Viewer.”  What are you going to do now???

Post a comment summarizing what you learned from the tutorial:

•  Discuss in detail at least two (2) videos you watched during the tutorial that raised your awareness on differentiating between news, opinion, propaganda, advertising, publicity, entertainment and unfiltered information.
• Include who the reporter and the interviewees were for each story and what the story was about.
• What were some of the deconstruction principles discussed in the tutorial in terms of assessing whether a television news report is reliable?
• What tips, if any did you receive on how you as a viewer can determine whether a television news report is fair?

Don’t forget to send the course report.  And Thursday you will have a quiz on this assignment.  Check the 2/24 11:35a.m. MC409 email for details..

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!

“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

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