Jan. 16: What is MPJ?

Today’s agenda: We’ll talk about what you learned in the readings in the blog folders Learning about MPJ and Twitter advice.

I also will  give more details about some of the class projects and our partnership with the News Magazine class.

Due today: Read through the blog folders Learning about MPJ and Twitter advice, and complete your WordPress blog & Twitter profile. (Details on what needs to be included in your blog and Twitter profile are in the previous post.)

  • Please email me the link to your blog home page and your Twitter handle.

For Tuesday: Read the blog folder Examples of MPJ projects

Due Tuesday: Blog post 1 & Tweet 1 — Find an example of a “good” MPJ project

Blog post 1

  • Discuss what makes it “good” in at least 250 words
  • Use complete sentences
  • Include an in-text link to your example
  • Write an interesting headline that will entice people to read your post

Tweet 1

  • Summarize the main point of your blog post & tweet it
  • Include a link to your blog post (Use bitly to shorten the link)
  • Use #mpj2014

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