Day 14 – 10.15 – Social Media
Leave a commentOctober 15, 2014 by Brian Harmon
Quiz:
Answer the following as a blog post. Then tweet a link to that page @techwriting462 with #quiz.
1. What is the difference between informal and formal reports?
2. What does #FergusonOctober mean to you?
3. Who is your most interesting “follow” since you joined Twitter/Facebook and why?
4. What social media platform are you leaning towards exploring for your 3rd project and why?
Discussion:
Informal vs Formal Reports
Multitudes Hashtagging Revolutions
Group Twitter Exploration
-Choose topic and complete the following
- Discuss strategies for finding information about your topic.
- Compose 10 tweets EACH about a central topic.
- Organize tweets with the following hashtags:
- #techwriting462g(group number)…include in EVERY TWEET
- #(your topic)…include in EVERY TWEET
- #(category)…choose the appropriate category
- #introduction
- #research
- #gossip
- #image
- #news
Homework:
Social Media in the Arab Spring (University of Washington) – PDF on Dropbox
Explore visual social media (Flickr, Instagram, Hyperlapse, SnapChat, Vine, etc)
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