{"id":200,"date":"2016-03-21T01:28:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T01:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2016-04-09T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:52:50","slug":"social-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/multi-media-lab\/social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Try live-tweeting the House Divided anniversary conference on Reconstruction\u00a0and then incorporate some of those tweets along with a few other links and resources into a short Storify essay. \u00a0Then you will embed this Storify into a blog post at our course website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For this assignment, you will have to set up accounts in both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\" target=\"_blank\">Storify<\/a>. \u00a0They are free and you can certainly delete them after the semester if you don&#8217;t want to continue with either effort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tech Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure to follow @House_Divided on Twitter and pay special attention to our tweets marked with hashtags #reconstruction150<\/li>\n<li>And\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/gradhacker\/best-practices-live-tweeting\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s some good advice<\/a>\u00a0on live-tweeting from\u00a0<em>Inside Higher Ed.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>For help with getting a better handle on how to use Storify, check out our video tutorial below and\u00a0review\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/HouseDivided\/slavery-and-the-constitution\" target=\"_blank\">this House Divided Storify<\/a> on a recent academic debate over slavery and the Constitution. But if you want to see a really good example of how to combine live-tweeting with Storify in an effective way for covering a historical conference, look carefully at <a href=\"https:\/\/storify.com\/BackStoryRadio\/the-history-of-political-partisanship-an-nhc-congr\" target=\"_blank\">this recent example from the University of Virginia<\/a> and their coverage of a 2016 panel session at the National History Center (NHC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/luZcU2E5cgI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge Try live-tweeting the House Divided anniversary conference on Reconstruction\u00a0and then incorporate some of those tweets along with a few other links and resources into a short Storify essay. \u00a0Then you will embed this Storify into a blog post at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/multi-media-lab\/social-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}