1. Dr. Michelle M. Pulaski Behling Tamilee Webb Mindy Berard
STORIFY
Dr. Michelle M. Pulaski Behling Tamilee Webb Mindy Berard

2. What is Storify?
Social media curation tool for digital stories Storify.com
Went live in 2011
Makes sense of what people post on social media
Gives the social perspective on any event

3. How does Storify work?
Storify allows users to search Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, Google, Flickr and YouTube for specific topics. You can also search specific twitter users, add your own urls and use a bookmarklet to send a specific site to Storify.
drag and drop the results you want into your storypad
You also can structure your story by adding a header, a main description and subheads or captions, which ideally add context to the content. The point isn’t to simply aggregate social media, but to carefully select pieces that together tell a story of their own, combined with your own captions.

4. Course Applications HW Assignments Final Projects Case Studies
Current Event Discussions
Course Concept Integration

5. Discipline Applications
Perfect for current events: allows students to gain perspective on timely issues: reform-who-is-saying-what
Literature: spark conversation about a novel turns-200; novels-into-multi-million-dollar-films
Health: UNICEF campaign to end preventable child deaths
Business/Technology: analyze recent technology mergers and acquisitions wary

6. Educational Benefits
Using Web 2.0 resources to keep track of sports media events and analyze real world situations allows students to use the technologies they are already familiar with in new ways.
By providing students with highly interactive learning experiences, they become more engaged with the material ( Blended Learning Approach)
Utilizing engaging technology like Storify in class results in student centered learning

7. Storify Project
Objective: To engage in digital storytelling to critically analyze a current issue related to sports media. 
Create a story by collecting social media relevant to your topic
Write narrative by conducting additional research of academic literature related to topic. The narrative critically analyzes the relationship between the collected social media elements and students’ topics
Stories are published to the web; shared on social media sites, and embedded into eportfolio
Topics ranged from the impact of social media on the 2011 NFL lockout to a comparison of media coverage of African American quarterbacks vs Caucasian quarterbacks

8. Student Work
Mindy Berard analyzed the impact of social media on the 2012 NHL lockout
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Tamilee Webb The Media’s One Sided Showcase of Athletes