Today's assignment is simple: Use the next hour to create and produce a short web-based news or feature story for this site, Tulsa Street Stories.
The purpose of the assignment is for you to learn more about blogging and multimedia journalism using this site and other digital technologies, such as Storify, Ustream and others we discussed last week. Or you might use Vine, the six-second video app that is popular on smart phones. Whatever you decide, add your content—or a link to the content—on this site.
As an experiment, I signed on to Ustream yesterday and made a short video about social media use and the AP Stylebook. It's very basic, but it's an easy example of the kind of thing that you can do in a short time. If you want to use Ustream, I can supply you with the password for the Tulsa Street Stories channel.
You'll have to work fast to produce this story and upload it by 4:45, but this is a do-able project. You can use your own laptop, tablet or phone to make photos, audio or video. Remember, this is a journalism class, so you should tell a short, but interesting story of some kind.
Some suggestions for stories:
• TU unveiled a statute of TU football player Glenn Dobbs on Saturday. There's information online about Dobbs and the statue. The state itself is only a short walk away so you can easily make images.
• Tulsa is hosting a number of concerts and performances this spring. Write an advance for one of these performances and add links or other digital content to make a multimedia story.
• Head to the coffee shop at McFarlin Library. Interview a student about his or her summer plans, recent spring break experiences, graduation plans, etc.
• Use your imagination. Be creative. Any sort of idea can work, but it needs to be something interesting.
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