A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
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 […]
Continue reading #TryThis! Using Google Drive for real-time in class team collaborationThis 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 […]
Continue reading Sharing my Social Media Release AssignmentThis 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 […]
Continue reading Books I am Using This Fall for Social Media and Writing Across PlatformsThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I recently posted on the impact the change to Google’s link schemes is having on what we should teach students about writing press releases for the web. But what does this change mean? There are some concern around the web that this is […]
Continue reading The Link Schemes Change by Google: Why I Am Not Afraid!This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Google recently updated its link schemes and it means an important change to how we teach students to write press releases for the web. This is because the change directly targets articles or press releases distributed on other websites, like an online wire […]
Continue reading Teach PR Writing? You Need to Know about Google’s Updated Link SchemesThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. After a great trip to Washington DC and a wonderful #AEJMC2013 conference, I am back in West Virginia enjoying the last few days before classes start. Though I didn’t get to do all the things I had hoped nor meet all the great […]
Continue reading Web Roundup: Social Media rocks AEJMC 2013; Hot articles impactingThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. The start of the semester is right around the corner. So I thought it’d be fun to do series of posts titled #trythis! on teaching tools and techniques I hope you will try this fall. The first is an invaluable tool I’ve been […]
Continue reading #TryThis! Teach Technology and Save Class Time with Screencasting