A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
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See all of my blog posts that contain social media class assignments, activities, and exercises. Just scroll down to access them. These are great public relations class assignments and work well as marketing class assignments, too. Enjoy!
Like comprehensive plans that are super-organized? Check out my book, Teach Social Media: A Plan for Creating a Course Your Students Will Love, that contains a semester’s worth of social media class exercises, assignments and activities.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. This is the second post in a 3-part series on how to set up teams to be successful. [If you haven’t read post 1 yet, I encourage you to read it first]. I started this series with a question: Should Students Be Able […]
Continue reading A Guide To Setting Up Classroom Groups for Success: Team Evaluations (Part 2 of 3)This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Spoiler alert: The final blog post in this 3-part series about how to set up your class for success when working with groups will be titled: Should Students Be Able to Fire Teammates in a Class Project? In my classes, the answer is […]
Continue reading A Guide To Setting Up Classroom Groups for Success: Group Contracts (Part 1 of 3)This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I’ve been teaching social network concepts in my Social Media class at Shepherd University for the past several years. And it is something that students have always seemed to struggle with or not take a great deal of interest in. This is unfortunate, […]
Continue reading Teaching Social Network Concepts: Fun Class ActivityThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Surveys are a common method uses in communication research class projects. Since I started teaching this class at Shepherd University, I’ve added a fun, cool feature that really brings the survey data collection process to life!
Continue reading Using iPads for Survey Data Collection in the Communication Research ClassThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. If he were alive today, would Ernest Hemingway be great at writing Tweets? I like to think that he would. After all, he is attributed with writing the famous 6-word novel: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” (though his authorship of the story […]
Continue reading Teaching College Writing Using the Hemingway AppIn the last few posts, I’ve been writing about my Social Media class and the semester project we’ve been doing. To recap, students create a social media content strategy for our department’s social media (the details of the assignment are on the previous post). They then use this plan to create content for the department. […]
Continue reading My Fall 2014 Social Media Class Project In ReviewThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Several weeks ago I mentioned that a big change in my Comm 322 Social Media class this semester (syllabus), is that students will be working to create the social media for our department’s Twitter, Instagram, and a brand new blog.
Continue reading A Look at My Social Media Content Strategy Assignment