Teaching Social Media: Activites, Assignments, Exercises, Tips, Lessons

Getting students to think about smartphone addiction (cell phone addiction lesson plan)

Updated January 16, 2025

This post may contain affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you, if you click a link and make a purchase, I will make a commission. Please read my disclosure for details. Cell Phone Addiction “Cell phone addiction” is a strong term that may or may not be appropriate to describe our current obsessions […]

Here’s My Communication Research Class Assignment on Analyzing Media Placement

Updated November 8, 2019

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Why a Communication Research Class Quantitative Content Analysis Assignment? In my opening post to the Spring 2018 semester, I reviewed several new assignments and activities I will be bringing into my classes this semester. In this post, I will discuss the quantitative content […]

What’s Changing? Hubspot Academy, Google Analytics, Meltwater software and more!: Spring 2018 Class Updates

Updated November 8, 2019

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I hope that everyone had a relaxing and rejuvenation winter break. I’m going to kick off Spring 2018 with something I like to do on this blog at the start of the semester: Offer a preview of some of the changes and updates […]

Fall 2017 Strategic Campaign Client Presentations: Reflections and Learning Opportunities

Updated November 8, 2019

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. This semester, my COMM 470 Strategic Campaigns students had the opportunity to take on an international non-profit as a client. That non-profit was Children of Uganda. Children of Uganda seeks to give a hand up to women and children in Uganda. Among its […]

Teaching Students to Create an Online Personal Branding Strategy: Personal Brand Exercise for Students

Updated November 8, 2019

This post may contain affiliate links, meaning at no additional cost to you, if you click a link and make a purchase, I will make a commission. Please read my disclosure for details. Online Personal Branding Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz about Mark W. Schaefer’s new book: Known: The handbook for building and […]

What I learned from hosting a Facebook live interview

Updated November 8, 2019

This year, the social media committee of the Public Relations Division of AEJMC wanted to make some changes in how we conduct our interviews with senior faculty and practitioners. For several years, interviews have been published on the PRD blog in written format. We thought it would be fun to put a fresh spin on […]

Activities and Events

My Public Relations Class Participated in the Ketchum Mindfire Challenge. Here’s How It Helped.

Updated November 8, 2019

This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Public Relations Class Activities with the Ketchum Mindfire Challenge Last semester, my Principles of PR class had the opportunity to participate in the Ketchum Mindfire Challenge for the first time. The program was a great learning experience for students and a ton of […]

Getting students to think about smartphone addiction (cell phone addiction lesson plan)

Here’s My Communication Research Class Assignment on Analyzing Media Placement

What’s Changing? Hubspot Academy, Google Analytics, Meltwater software and more!: Spring 2018 Class Updates

Fall 2017 Strategic Campaign Client Presentations: Reflections and Learning Opportunities

Teaching Students to Create an Online Personal Branding Strategy: Personal Brand Exercise for Students

What I learned from hosting a Facebook live interview

My Public Relations Class Participated in the Ketchum Mindfire Challenge. Here’s How It Helped.

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