Today’s Plan:
- Review Professional Learning Projects
- Halloween Tweet Contest Brainstorm
- What is due by next Thursday?
Review Professional Learning Projects
We have 280 characters now.
Halloween Tweet Contest Brainstorm
I want to operationalize an idea that the social media team mentioned on Tuesday: could the English department have a Halloween Horror Story Twitter contest?
My answer is “yes,” we can do this. What do we need to do this? Probably a lot of stuff. I’m sitting down to brainstorm this at 12:00 to share with you at 2:00. I’m going to write some stuff here. But then y’all are going to revise it. Who are y’all? The social media team (or those of you who want to focus on this idea) and the document design folks. Yep. You folks. Why? Because we are going to need flyers to advertise the HHSTC. Fast. By next Thursday fast.
Random list of things we need to know / do:
- Where are public places (pinboards) where we can hang signs? What are University regulations for hanging signs around UNC? How can I avoid getting an email from the Dean inquiring into why my students are disregarding UNC regulations for advertising an event?
- How many signs do we need? How many buildings on campus? How many pinboards per building? Can we hang some of these in classrooms? Can we put them in English faculty mailboxes and ask them to advertise the contest to students and/or hang them on their door?
- We need a email draft that I can send out to every English instructor at UNC advertising the contest
- We need copy of every email that Becca Romaine, the department’s social media expert, will send out
- We need copy for the rules of the contest. These rules must include a line that in order to be eligible for the grand prize, you must follow UNC English and include the contest hashtag in your tweet
- The rules have to be concise enough to fit in a tweet. We need a HHSTC image, in photoshop, with some preliminary details, to include in the tweet
- We need a grand prize: got it, an English department sports bottle and a $10 Starbucks coffee card
- We need a better name for this contest that Halloween Horror Story Twitter Contest
- We need a contest hashtag that doesn’t waste too many characters
- We need to get the contest rules, title, hashtag, etc etc etc to the Document Design team STAT
Document Design team: I’m changing your final deliverables. Contest time! For your final deliverable, I’d like you to design TWO FLYERS EACH advertising the soon-to-be-renamed-Halloween Horror Story Twitter contest. These flyers need to:
- Advertise the contest. Don’t do this. Don’t get me fired. Don’t put me in a situation in which I have to explain something to my boss
- Explain the rules of the contest. Include that students must follow UNC’s twitter to be eligible for the grand prize
- One in color (to be included in tweets, facebook posts, etc–25 color copies for “premium” locations). One in black and white (to be printed and put in faculty mailboxes etc).
