J198 Scavenger Hunt

1.) School Spirit: I approached a freshman from Guatemala exiting Christmas Saucon.
2.) My favorite eating spot off-campus: The Goose.
3.) Ask a professor about social media: Ryan Kathleen is a statistics professor and was explaining to me the correlation between social media and social change.
4.) Person on the street: A Bethlehem police officer told me where he got his news from.
5.) Academic Excellence: John W. fulfilled his dream of getting hired by a construction company through the hard work he learned in IPD.
6.) Scenic Spot: I chose the courtyard outside Rauch and Zoellner. Shame it was covered with snow.
7.) Little-known-fact: I was walking through Zoellner and saw a plaque about Bethlehem Steel. I did some research afterwards and realized that they contributed some of their last casts for the building.
8.) Fanatic Fans: I was searching for football (excuse me, soccer) fans but didn't find any so I quoted the biggest Real Madrid fan, myself.
9.) Favorite spot on campus: I practically live in the Diamond Theater. I have great memories in that theater.
10.) Extracurricular Extravaganza: I was early for a theater rehearsal and the scene shop workers were still on the set building it, so I took a picture to show how two different organizations work together. They both belong to the theater department but one is performance-oriented while the other is hands-on craftwork-oriented.


For this scavenger hunt I limited myself exclusively to using the Twitter for iPhone app. It gave me a lot of freedom and flexibility in posting my tweets and pictures. I liked the fact that I could post a tweet as soon as I finished interviewing someone. The sense of immediacy is vital in news reporting.

Seven of my tweets were re-tweeted by class members, mostly fun facts they didn't know before or things they agreed with, such as school spirit. I also got replies from students and professors from the other universities, which was pretty cool because it showed me how easy it is to get exposed nationally just by using hash-tags and building a network. I learned a lot of interesting facts I didn't know about my campus before as well as learning the tastes and preferences of my classmates. My perception of twitter hasn't changed. It just has expanded. I always had an idea of what it was capable of, but I never really experienced the exposure as much as I did during this scavenger hunt.

I would probably tweet half as much if I didn't have a smartphone, but copying and pasting is a lot easier on a computer. That's the main issue I'm working out on my phone now.