A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The snow is coming down here in West Virginia! Classes are canceled today so I will be catching up on research and some other things. But let’s talk classes and syllabi! In addition to the applied Communication Research class I am teaching this […]
Continue reading Here Are My Spring 2014 Syllabi: Writing and ResearchThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics! I hear it everywhere I turn. :) More than ever, we need to be teaching our students research skills. This Spring 2014 semester I am really excited to be teaching an applied Communication Research class! For two years at Utah […]
Continue reading Teaching The Applied Communication Research ClassThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I hope everyone is staying warm! Here in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, we’ve got some terribly cold weather heading our way tonight! I want to take a moment to share some news from the research side of my life in academia. […]
Continue reading “Social Media and Mobiles” Social Media and Politics Research Published!This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Every December, my wife and I write down personal goals for the upcoming year. We sit down, discuss them, write them down, and then at the end of the year, we look at what we wrote down and honestly assess how we did. […]
Continue reading What Are Your 2014 Teaching Goals? Here Are MineThis 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 […]
Continue reading The Social Media Class Blog Assignment In ReviewThis 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 […]
Continue reading Born to Blog author talks social media challenges, opportunities, and more!This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I love having guests come and talk to my class. Last week, Comm 322 Social Media had another special guest – Leigh-Anne Lawrence from Hagerstown Community College (HCC). Leigh-Anne is the Social Media and Public Information Specialist in the Public Information & Government […]
Continue reading How to Manage Social Media for a Higher Education Institution: Guest Speaker