A Social Media Education Blog by Matthew J. Kushin, Ph.D.
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Note: As noted in my previous post when I first mentioned this assignment, please know that this assignment is based largely on the work of Scott Cowley. See his post about when he ran this assignment in his class. BuzzFeed in the Classroom […]
Continue reading What Happens When Students Write For BuzzFeed For A Class Project?This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. Each semester, I like to highlight something that I’m doing different in one of my classes (for example, see last Fall’s What’s Changing post). This semester, I’d like to highlight my Writing Across Platforms class (the syllabus is at the bottom of this […]
Continue reading What’s Changing? My Writing Across Platforms students will write for BuzzFeed and More in Spring 2016. Oh, And here’s the syllabus!This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for details. In my Writing Across Platforms class, students write a news release for the social web. We have used PitchEngine to help students learn the web features that can bolster a news release.
Continue reading Why PitchEngine is Great For Teaching the Social Media News ReleaseThis 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 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