The Social Media Class Blog Assignment In Review

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. It is finals week! We’ve had a good amount of snow here, as Scout can attest, and I’ve been busy catching up on grading. With a few minutes of down time before the next batch of final projects are due, I thought I’d […]

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Born to Blog author talks social media challenges, opportunities, and more!

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I always learn so much from our guest speakers! This week we were very fortunate to have the author of our class text, Born to Blog, Mark Schaefer (@markwschaefer) Skype with our class. If you aren’t familiar with Mark, he is a very […]

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3 Great Benefits of the Hootsuite University Higher Ed Program

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. What tools are you teaching your students in your social media class? Recognizing the need to teach students how to use social media dashboards, I began teaching Hootsuite in the classroom a few years ago.  However, I was disappointed in the limited amount of […]

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Guest Speaker: Using social media to share the search for true love

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Happy Monday! Last week, my social media class had the wonderful opportunity of having Nate Bagley as our guest. Who is Nate Bagley (@bigbags)? Nate currently runs the Loveumentary Podcast (and blog!), a podcast that believes “True Love exists… you just need to listen.” The […]

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#TryThis! Using Google Drive for real-time in class team collaboration

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Note: Due to the news with Google link schemes, I got a little off track with my #TryThis! themed blog posts. Here is 1 of the other 2 I had planned. Here is another great tool I love for engaging students in teamwork […]

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Sharing my Social Media Release Assignment

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend. I’ve been writing lately about the Google Link Schemes update – what it is, how I am teaching in response to it, and what I think about it. As promised, here is my assignment that is […]

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Books I am Using This Fall for Social Media and Writing Across Platforms

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Happy Friday! We are wrapping up our first week of classes here at Shepherd University! This semester I am teaching 2 classes related to social media and strategic comm: Social Media (syllabus), and Writing Across Platforms (syllabus). I find myself using textbooks less […]

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