Free tablets?
Today let's deal with a little science fiction. Imagine that the college was considering setting up a new service that would provide a tablet (iPad, Kindle Fire, or other brand) to every full-time student.
What would be a good reason to issue tablets to students? Why might the college want to avoid doing this? Other than the cost (that would be too easy an answer). And how could the college overcome the potential problem you identified?
Bad transmedia
I'd like a good description of some bad transmedia. More specifically, I'd like you to describe an example of something that worked really well in one medium but was then poorly adapted to another (usually just to take quick advantage of the good version's popularity).
Once again, video game adaptations of popular movies are low hanging fruit, because the gaming is industry is infamous for churning out crap games based on movies. So respect to those who come up with a good example that doesn't involve that particularly bad pairing.
Good Transmedia
This one's the flip side of the bad transmedia question. Here I'm asking you to identify and describe an example of something that took more than one media form and all the different versions were actually good.
Yeah, good examples are harder to come up with than bad examples. but when transmedia works, it really works. Getting different media to function well together to tell a story is currently important and in teh future will become absolutely essential.
So what have you seen/heard/read that provides a good path that aspiring mass communicators can follow?