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Storination: New Tool to the Rescue

7/11/2012

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I have shared how my journalism students in the Diederich College of Communication "live tweet" campus events at Marquette University – and use Storify to present their stories afterward. (See "Using Twitter for Journalism Mightily," "'Oh My!' Enberg Lecture Trends" and "Classes Live Tweet #muawards.") Until now, however, I could only tell you about it. Now, thanks to a new web-based tool called Storination, it's much easier to show you.

Storination is still in its infancy; one must request an invite from the entity before using it. I only heard about it thanks to Benet Wilson, chairwoman of the NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force and who students affectionally call "Aunt Benet." As she writes in a task force blog post, "Missed #NABJ? Check Out Storination," the tool "allows you to put all the Storifys from a single event — like #NABJ12 — in one place for folks to read and share." Nice!

The Storination interface is easy to use, though it would be nice to have more flexibility reorder the imported Storifys. Getting cover images to work with text is another challenge; the cover image offered above is OK. Anyway, today I created several storyboards – that's what Storination calls the virtual spaces used to create an online set of Storifys – mostly based on the Twitter hashtags used for the campus events my classes live tweeted en masse.

Check out "Journalism Classes Live Tweet Presidential Inauguration," "Milwaukee Photographer Shares Cuba Perspective," "Hall of Famer Dick Enberg Lectures at Marquette," "Spurlock Speaks at Marquette," "Diederich College Recognizes Five Distinguished Alumni" and "Marquette Journalism Students Live Tweet Campus Events."

Before Storination, I used a web browser to bookmark all the student Storifys. An inelegant option, especially given likely many more to come. Besides, a main reason for students to live tweet and use Storify is so they have more to show afterward than just a 500-word story that only their instructor reads. The new tool should better enable students to compare their efforts and learn from one another. Beyond that, Storination wants users to create an online "nation," where people share social stories on the same topic. Look out soon for the first #loweclass nation!

@herbertlowe Txs, can't wait !here is an example of a nice Storination : storination.com/obamastory @whitehouse @WHLive

— storination (@storination) July 5, 2012
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Ryan Ellerbusch
8/30/2012 07:24:00 am

I'm excited to learn more about Storination and use it for class assignments in the future. Marquette and their social media department does a great job creating these Storifys for people to read and relive the event through tweets, articles, pictures, videos, etc... I can't wait to put all the Storifys from our classes of a single event into one category and check them all out!

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Courtney Perry
9/3/2012 02:55:29 pm

I wasn't familiar with Storify until very recently, so I'm interested to see what it is all about and how it will be included throughout class.

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David Tukesbrey
9/4/2012 11:38:10 am

I thought that I was pretty savvy with social media, but there is so much out there that I haven't even really heard of. I had never even heard of this new platform until now, looking forward to learning more about it soon.

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Stephanie Graham
9/4/2012 12:25:44 pm

Wow! My browser won't load the story boards but that actually looks pretty neat. I'm still a little skeptical of Storify but Storination looks like a great tool to improve its functionality. Hopefully I'll start to "get it" as we use Storify this semester.

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Jacob Born
9/4/2012 03:14:33 pm

I still don;t really know what to think about Storify. I've never done one before, but it seems to me like it does the same thing that searching a hashtag on Twitter would do. Maybe my perspective will change, and hopefully it does, when I complete my first one, but it just seems like it is unnecessary in the social media world.

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Casby Bias
9/4/2012 11:33:36 pm

I ended up missing #NABJ12, so Storination would be a good resource for future NABJ events. We’re going to do something like this in class?

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