Week 1, Lesson Plan

Summary: Today’s world is driven by smart phones and their users are always attached to them. In order to get our content to them we need to create content that can be consumed in short spans of time and located through our social media. That is where MoJo comes in.  Mobile first journalism is the wave of the future and easy for us as a high school news organization to create. Throughout this lesson you will learn the basics and put them to the test when you create your own piece of news on your phone or ipad. The entire piece must  be created, edited and uploaded using nothing but your phone or ipad.

47 Minute Class Period

Learning Outcomes:

• Students will learn the basics of MoJo and create a piece for our social media or website.
• Students will understand the basics of producing a piece of media using only their phones.
• Students will create, edit and post a piece of media using only their mobile devices.
• Students will understand the power of social media and how it helps us to reach our audience.

Introduction:

• Read this article and watch the video with students
• https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/-we-are-dipping-our-toe-in-the-water-rt%C3%A9-targets-social-audiences-with-bespoke-video-series-/s2/a701821/
• Discussion with students
  • What was great about the article?
  • Did they do anything amazing, anything we cannot do?
  • What was great about the video?
  • How do we do that?
  • What does a good piece of of mobile journalism look like?

Brainstorming Session:

• What can we cover like this today?
  • Sports
  • Concerts
  • Students
  • Test
  • Homework
  • You name it we can do it

If there is time in class watch one of the examples and discuss it with the class. If not assign them as homework.

Examples: These examples are a little more complex than we will be creating our first time, but this is where we want to be soon. 

https://twitter.com/fenwickmedia This is a twitter feed of another school that is doing a great job with this type of media.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJYHfSOoCqXzSkKvCtqFEBg

Homework: Create a 60 second mobile story. Use the list of ideas from the brainstorm session and find something you want to report on. It could be anything from a game recap, an interview after a test, rehearsal recap, that is up to you.

You will be graded on the following elements:

• Lede / Intro __ / 5
• Interview __/ 5
• Time 50 seconds or more __ / 5
• At least one Graphic added or music added  __ / 5
• Posted on Social Media after approved by editor __ / 5

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