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Everyone seems to be talking about VR these days.
For Christmas, my brother gave me a Google Cardboard. It took no time for me to see why VR is all the rage and is set to take off in 2016.
Simply put: Google Cardboard = Amazing.
Continue reading Where is the missing Google Cardboard Photo Sharing App?
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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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As I look back, 2015 has been a great year for me professionally. I’m always amazed at how much can change in a year and how much we grow in our profession in such a short period of time. As our careers progress in academia, it is as important as ever that we set goals and use winter break to push ourselves forward.
I’ve always been one to set goals both for the short and long terms. And I attribute a great deal of my productivity and success to goal-setting. Here are 3 types of goals I value.
Continue reading Three Types of Goals Academics Should Set for 2016
Students in my COMM 470 Strategic Campaigns (syllabus from previous year) had a big surprise last Tuesday when they presented their campaign plans to the client, a local non-profit, Charles Town Now.
Continue reading Exciting Feedback for Strategic Campaigns Class Helping #StartCT
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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, because these are really important concepts for our social media students to be learning. So this semester, I wanted to try and see if I could make it a little more fun and thus succeed in making the concepts a little more sticky.
Here’s what I came up with. it worked like a charm! Students were up on their feet, they were comparing their network with their classmates, all while saying ‘this is hard, Dr. K.” But, at the end of class, one student summed the activity up, saying, “this was fun!”
Continue reading Teaching Social Network Concepts: Fun Class Activity
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Building bridges.
That’s something we professors strive to create in the minds of our students. You might say it is the core mission of everything we do.
So how can we do that?
Continue reading How Guest Professors Build Bridges For Students
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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?
Continue reading What Faculty Can Learn from Dennis Yu, a Leader in Social Media Marketing
