JRN 200: Your Tuesday 7/14 Homework

What is due will be:

-- At least 12 tweets regarding a happening or event you are observing; and,
-- Two breaking news blog posts on the same event, with one post previewing the event, and the other recapping it.  
  Parameters of that content 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 between 100 and 200 words each, with each being no shorter than 100 words;
-- 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; and,
-- Each tweet having a consistent unique hash tag, to allow the tweets to be chained together.

Now, on these assignments, everyone will get a 4.0 as long as long as we meet the basic parameters of the assignment.

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.

Your deadline will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, July 20 by email to omars@msu.edu. Again, you should be emailing me links to your Twitter and Blogger accounts, and not actual text.

If you are unsure about your topic or fuzzy on some of these concepts like hashtags or hyperlinks or whatever, or if you have any questions whatsoever, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

I will be in between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays at 517-432-3009; omars@msu.edu, and/or 435 E. Grand River Ave. (The State News Building, at the corner of Grand River and Division, next to the SBS bookstore and across the street from Berkey Hall).

Plus, don't forget you still have your second out-of-class story due no later than 9 a.m. Thursday, July 16 via email to omars@msu.edu.