storify: kenya

My next assignment was to create a storify using several social media sites. It was marked as 2.5 stars, but I would argue I used 3 stars of work due to the amount of time it took and how many photos and tweets I put in it. I chose to use my Twitter and Instagram to tell the story of my Kenya trip I took in June.

The website was glitchy (things were not loading properly) so it took a while and a lot of patience, but I had a lot of fun with the assignment. I love going back and looking at pictures from the trip. I tried to put everything in chronological order, using photos from friends who also went on the trip. I also added tweets that I wrote over the course of the two weeks I was there.

It was really fun to tell a story using two separate social media sites, and I really enjoyed using the site. I hope to use it again!

https://storify.com/RoseKing/getting-started#publicize

This week, a reporter came up to me because they wanted to get the full story of the romance between Sebastian Crane and myself. She said she already got some information from Sebastian, and she was going to “Storify It” (2 pts). I agreed to tell her my version of all the events that happened between us as long as it doesn’t hit the print newspapers, because both Sebastian and I work for a print newspaper and I’m not sure how that would play out. Storify is pretty easy to get the hang of. You can add text, or add media from different places on the web to create a story. It’s kind of like what I do with my blog posts, but I don’t tell the same type of narrative as she does. This story of Sebasha is a pretty accurate and complete summary of the things that have happened to Sebastian and myself in the past few weeks. There were some things I told her that Sebastian didn’t know, and now I see that there were some things Sebastian told her that I didn’t know. We will see where that leads. I like how the reporter added a lot of media from different places on the web like Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, and SoundCloud, because these primary sources give you proof that the story is not just made up by the reporter. Her words are just there to guide the reader through the different sources. It took a while for the reporter to get all the sources in the right order and make sure it made sense, but the end result was worth it. It is open ended about the future of our relationship because after all we have been through it is difficult to see a future where it works out for the two of us. However, I will keep trying at it, and hopefully the story of Sebasha will grow. Here is the Storify story that the reporter published:

The tangled love story of Sasha Kellogg and Sebastian Crane