A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
This 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 #StartCTIn the last few posts, I’ve been writing about my Social Media class and the semester project we’ve been doing. To recap, students create a social media content strategy for our department’s social media (the details of the assignment are on the previous post). They then use this plan to create content for the department. […]
Continue reading My Fall 2014 Social Media Class Project In ReviewThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Several weeks ago I mentioned that a big change in my Comm 322 Social Media class this semester (syllabus), is that students will be working to create the social media for our department’s Twitter, Instagram, and a brand new blog.
Continue reading A Look at My Social Media Content Strategy AssignmentThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. I teach Comm 335 Writing Across Platforms (see syllabus), a class that in part looks at writing news releases and other content for the web. One tactic we talk about is creating Tweetable content for our social media releases assignment. PitchEngine – the […]
Continue reading You Can Tweet a Quote Directly From a Pew Report