MM #2: Let's Look At Some Vid/Blog/Tweet Combos!

Okay, round two of multimedia. Except this time, we're going to look at how each medium -- social, online and video -- told the same story topic in different ways.

Let's look at how each medium maximized its advantages -- video telling stories in motion and sound, online using hyperlinks for background, and social breaking things into short blasts -- and how each medium complemented the others and helped form a well-rounded examination of the subject at hand.


Off we go:


Julia: construction accident first story / update story / video / tweets #jrn200collapse

Max: MSU baseball: first story / update story / video / tweets #maxonmsubaseball

Justin: summer school  first story / update story / video / tweets #msujrn200class


Lindsay: grub crawl event  first story / update story / video / tweets #omargrubbing

Kyle: healthy eating first story / update story / video / tweets #healthyisexpensive

Lilly: Facebook policy  first story / update story / video / tweets  #facebookpolicy


Nubia: bike safety first story / update story / video / tweets #msubikesafety

Emily: student work  first story / update story / video / tweets  #jrn200story2tweetstream


Now, this is how the grading worked: the first story, second story and tweets were individually graded, then an average grade was determined that was your multimedia assignment grade.

Your video was graded individually, and had its own grade equal in weight to the multimedia package grade.

Grades were figured more on content and substance and proper use of journalistic style than in the previous multimedia/video assignment. This assignment was NOT a perfect 4.0 as long as you met the technical requirements, as was the last assignment, though the technical aspects still weighned in as part of your grade. Those were:

-- Videos staying within the 1-2 minute range and on-topic
-- Videos containing at least two human interviews on tape
-- Videos containing sufficient attribution of sources

-- Each breaking news story staying over the 100-word minimum
-- The breaking news stories being written in a journalistic style, as opposed to a first-person blog-like style
-- Each breaking news item containing two working hyperlinks, inserted onto text
-- A minimum of 12 tweets on the same subject as the breaking news topic
-- Each tweet having a consistent unique hash tag, to allow the tweets to be chained together


In addition, a fatal resulted in a 1.0 grade. And failure to turn it in without proper and verified excuse, of course, is a 0.0.