Category: Classes

What’s Changing? My Writing Across Platforms students will write for BuzzFeed and More in Spring 2016. Oh, And here’s the syllabus!

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Each semester, I like to highlight something that I’m doing different in one of my classes (for example, see last Fall’s What’s Changing post). This semester, I’d like to highlight my Writing Across Platforms class (the syllabus is at the bottom of this […]

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What Happens When You Put Your Students In Charge of Your Department’s Social Media? (My Fall 2015 Social Media Class Project In Review)

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The new semester has started here at Shepherd University. There is a lot I have planned and am looking forward to. But first, I want to look back at my Comm 322 Social Media class from last fall, Fall 2015.

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Teaching Social Network Concepts: Fun Class Activity

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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, […]

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What Faculty Can Learn from Dennis Yu, a Leader in Social Media Marketing

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Yesterday, I had the amazing opportunity to have a true industry leader speak with students in my Social Media class here at Shepherd. Dennis Yu, the CTO of BlitzMetrics, kindly donated his time to share his insights and experiences. The result?

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What’s Changing for Fall 2015? Experimenting With My Principles of PR Semester-Long Project

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This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Happy start to the semester! I want to quickly provide an update on my plans this fall as we are jumping right into classes here at Shepherd University.  Longtime readers know that I like to start the semester by highlighting fun changes to […]

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