A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In my last post, I wrote about a Comm Research project where students use iPads for survey data collection.This is my favorite of the 3 projects we do in my Communication Research Class (see all posts on Comm 435; see syllabus). This week, […]
Continue reading Teaching Students to Use iPads for Survey Data Collection (2 of 2)This 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. In my Writing Across Platforms class, students write a news release for the social web. We have used PitchEngine to help students learn the web features that can bolster a news release.
Continue reading Why PitchEngine is Great For Teaching the Social Media News ReleaseThis 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 AppThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The semester is underway! I have shared select syllabi every semester since I started this blog. A lot of people contact me asking me for my syllabi and for class assignments. And thus I am happy to continue the trend. You can find […]
Continue reading Syllabi Spring 2015: Communication Research and Writing Across Platforms classesThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. There has been a lot of talk in recent months about the decline of Facebook’s popularity, particularly among teens and young adults. Coupled with that, Facebook announced that there will be a sharp decline in brand page content showing up in News Feeds […]
Continue reading Why I’m Still Teaching My Students to Write For Facebook… Despite EverythingThis past semester was the inaugural offering of Comm 470 Strategic Campaigns in the Department of Communication here at Shepherd. And with that, I’d like to offer a brief reflection on the experience. It was a great learning and growing experience for both me and the students!
Continue reading Reflections on how My Strategic Campaigns class helped #StartCT