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 AppIn 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 AssignmentFall is in full effect here in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia! As a follow up to my last post about my Comm 470 Strategic Campaigns class client, Charles Town Now, I want to share the class syllabus.
Continue reading Strategic Campaigns Class Overview and SyllabusThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. At the start of each semester I try to share relevant syllabi for classes I’m teaching that semester (hint: see all my syllabi in the menu on the left). Here are my plans for my social media class this semester. I’d like to […]
Continue reading Social Media Class Fall 2014: Class Project OverviewThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In the last two posts, I’ve been discussing the Yoshikoder sentiment analysis project in my Communication Research class here at Shepherd University. My first post looked at the project in general. And the second, most recent post, looked at how to teach computer-assisted […]
Continue reading Sentiment Analysis using Content Analysis Software: Project AssignmentThis post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Last blog post I discussed the second project in my applied research class, a sentiment analysis of Tweets using Yoshikoder – a free computer-assisted content analysis program from Harvard. As promised, I want to share my assignment, and my handout for students that […]
Continue reading Teaching Computer-Assisted Content Analysis with Yoshikoder