This week's collaborative project assignment is to create text for three staged social media posts sharing the most compelling information gleaned in the food pantry interviews you have conducted. The essential theme of all three posts should be the urgent call to action in eliminating childhood hunger in the U.S. The collaboration comes in by sharing your three posts with an assigned classmate and critiquing each other's work, offering praise of what's best in the posts and offering helpful suggestions for improvement wherever you see opportunities for greater effectiveness in messaging.

• Initial post: a very brief post of up to 100 characters drawing attention to your compelling story on local food pantries: the idea is to get scrollers to click on the link that follows your 100 or fewer character: basically just a "hook" designed to elicit further exploration of your topic.
  
  
• Intermediate post: a brief post of up to 75 words giving highlights of the information you want your audience to take from your interview: identify the interviewee and his or her organization, give a one-sentence overview of the most essential kernel or core message that you draw from the interview, and finish with a sentence or two urging the audience to click the next link to learn about the issue or interview in greater depth.
  
  
• Final post: A succinct article or essay in 3-4 paragraphs (totaling no more than 200 words) presenting the story of the person you interviewed and sharing the most important insights they provided about the food insecurity their organization attempts to alleviate. Include as many relevant quotes here as you can: more quotations and less of your own verbiage is good.
  
  
• Collaborate by sharing your three posts with the classmate you are paired with: give honest, helpful feedback on possible improvements, and when you receive your teammate's input, consider the merit in his or her suggestions and revise your posts accordingly.

What to submit: The first draft that you send to your teammate as CP4a; then the final revision after you get input from your partner as CP4b.

Teams (email me if you don't have contact info for your partner):

• Caris Barton and Rylan Sietsema
• Emalyn Byers and Brittany Rambone
• Kristen Fourman and Zach Panzarella
• Rose Goddard and Cassidy Mossbarger
• Katlyn Hernandez and Haley Ivey.

Share any questions that come up, and I will share my answers with you all.