For our opening assignment in using social media and writing about breaking news, what I will ask you to do is to pick out anything in your daily routine for which to write an online breaking news preview story, an online breaking news follow-up story, and a live tweet stream as the event is unfolding.
When I say I want you to do anything in your daily routine, I do mean anything. Cover your watching your favorite TV show. Or your roommate making breakfast. Or a game on TV you're watching. Really, anything.
The reason for that is that I simply want you to get used to the technical process, without having to do any real and time-consuming reporting. We will incorporate reporting in latter versions of this assignment.
Now, on these assignments, everyone will get a 4.0 as long as long as we meet the
basic parameters of the assignment.
Those include:
-- Each breaking news entry being about the SAME topic, being covered as a preview and then a recap of what happened
-- 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
The
penalty for failing to meet these parameters is 0.5 of your grade, per
error. So, if your tweets lacked a consistent unique hashtag, you got a
3.5. If your breaking news stories lacked topic consistency AND the
minimum hyperlinks, you got a 3.0.
In addition, a fatal resulted in a 1.0 grade. And failure to turn it in, of course, is a 0.0.
These
same deductions will apply on all future multimedia assignments. But
future assignments WILL include consideration of content and
journalistic value.
Now, to give you an idea of what the final product might look like, let's look at breaking news/tweet combos from the first such assignment my summer 2012 JRN 200 class, and let's talk about what worked and what can be done better.
And we're off:
Max: Stanley Cup preview / review /tweets #maxonstanleycup
Julia: making pasta preview / review / tweets
Lindsay: rainy day preview / review / tweets #whenitsraining
Molly: making a sandwich preview / review / tweets #bestroomie
Nubia: movies review / another review / tweets #vh1babyboy
Lilly: Bachelorette/baseball game preview / review / tweets #bachelorettelivetweets
Tiarra: TV show preview / review / tweets #funnyshow
Justin: NBA Finals preview / review / tweets #NBAFJRN200MSU
Emily: TV show preview / review / tweets #finallysomedecenttv
Kyle: NBA Finals preview and review / tweets
Katelyn: TV show and scary stuff: preview and review / tweets
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