JRN 400: How To Turn In Your Story Assignments

For your stories -- whether digital story package or weekly story -- you will be turning in your stories by filing your work directly to WordPress, following directions offered in an earlier blog post.



For text stories, that means loading your story to WordPress. When it is ready to be turned in DO NOT HIT THE PUBLISH BUTTON!!! AGAIN, DO NOT!!!!

Instead, go to the status tab and set it to "Send to Omar," and then hit save. That will tell me the story is ready to be graded and edited as needed, and then posted for the world to see on the Spartan Newsroom Web site.

If your story is a video, upload the video to YouTube and then embed the video into WordPress, adding a 100 or so word summation of what your story is about. Make sure your video is set on YouTube to a public and NOT a private setting. When your story is ready for me to grade and post, go to the status tab and set it to "Send to Omar,' and then hit save. If you don't hit save it will NLOT set the status correctly.

If your story is an ASF or a graphic of some sort, upload it as am image file to the WordPress media library, and then post it as you would a photo in a WordPress story file. Add a 100-word summary atop it. Then, go to the status tab, set it to "Send to Omar," and hit save.

For weekly stories, student editors will edit your weekly stories in WordPress while you are working on them and after you finish them. For the weekly stories but NOT for the digital story package, student editors will be the ones to set the status to "Send to Omar," and not the actual student writers and reporters.

Student editors will NOT be reviewing digital story packages at all. That's all me.

Again, don't send stories to my email; put your stories on WordPress and then reset the status to "Send to Omar" when ready to grade for the digital story package. For weekly stories, let your editor know your story is ready for final editing and then your editor will reset the status to "Send to Omar" when ready to grade.

In absolutely NO cases should students set the status to "publish." Only I will do that after ensuring the story is in good enough shape to be published and contains nothing libelous or obviously in error.

 If you have any notes to accompany the stories (like contact lists for your sources), please email those to me at omars@msu.edu at the same time you have it reset to "Send to Omar" or you tell your student editor it is ready for final editing.

Any questions? Please contact me. And good luck to all!