A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. When it comes to teaching social media, one of my goals this academic year is to continue to improve and update my focus on using social media software such as listening, analytics and metrics tools. One area where tools can help us is […]
Continue reading Three Quick Ways to Help Students find Digital Influencers using HootsuiteThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. As I mentioned in a previous post about my Social Media class, this semester I’ve adopted Carolyn Mae Kim’s new textbook: Social Media Campaigns: Strategies for Public Relations and Marketing. To put it simply: I’m so glad that I finally found a book […]
Continue reading Social Media Campaigns: Strategies for Public Relations and Marketing by Carolyn Mae Kim (Book Review)This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. And we’re back… Summer flew by as it always seems to. It was such a pleasure to see all the talented and motivated familiar faces and make new connections at AEJMC. I got to see many innovative educators whom I admire and whose […]
Continue reading What’s Changing? A look at my Social Media Class for Fall 2016This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Note: As noted in my previous post when I first mentioned this assignment, please know that this assignment is based largely on the work of Scott Cowley. See his post about when he ran this assignment in his class. BuzzFeed in the Classroom […]
Continue reading What Happens When Students Write For BuzzFeed For A Class Project?This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In the previous two posts in this series, I talked about steps I take to set teams up for success in group class projects. The first post looked at group contracts. The second post looked at peer evaluations of one’s team. In this […]
Continue reading Should Students Be Able to Fire Teammates in A Class Project? (Part 3 of 3)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)