A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Summer is a great time for finding new resources to share with students in the classroom. And with that in mind, I want to share a few readings and resources you may find useful to use this fall in your classes, or just […]
Continue reading Web Round Up: Social Media Education Videos, Google News Labs, and Link BuildingThis 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. 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. 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. Great news! Monday night, the Shepherd University Curriculum and Instruction committee approved the classes I have created and the Strategic Communication concentration I have been working on since my arrival in the Department of Communication at Shepherd University. The new concentration will offer […]
Continue reading Update to Status of New Classes and Concentration