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Investing in Digital Literacy through Social Media
This article was featured on the Social Media Club’s Education Blog on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. *** Entertainer Cee-Lo Green’s cat, Purrfect, has become a mouthpiece for NBC’s The Voice, a singing competion which this past Tuesday crowned its second winner. With 63,000 followers on Twitter, this feline certainly has a voice of its own – one that…
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Go Hunt Scan – Hospital’s history lesson goes digital
“Thanks for 100 years, Greenville.” A centennial celebration serves as the foundation for a digital scavenger hunt like no other. On the occassion of its 100th anniversary, Greenville Hospital System (GHS) is chronicling its history through a summer-long event that combines digital technology and community. From May 4-August 11, 2012, GHS’s Go-Hunt-Scan invites participants to find and…
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Honoring Van King
On May 4, I had the pleasure of honoring Van King, Founding Dean of the James L. Knight School of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte, who will be retiring next month. Below is a copy of my remarks, delivered at the university’s Board of Trustees Meeting. *** You should always be reflecting on your…
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Strategic Plans in COMM 605, Twitter tells the story
The culminating event of our graduate seminar in Integrated Strategic Communication is the presentation of strategic communication plans. In these semester-long projects, students studied organizations with the goal of advancing practice.The plans ranged from external branding plans to internal operational plans for government agencies, non-profits, educational centers, entrepreneurs, and corporate offices. Three themes emerged in…
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Tally your Tweets
It’s a simple question: “How many times did you tweet today?” Yet, some are hesitant to answer. Why would you want to publicly display your private digital life? In our last session of our digital literacy seminar, each student was supposed to find a way for our course content to intersect with other students at Queens.…
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Honored by Lambda Pi Eta
Each year, Lambda Pi Eta awards a faculty service award to one faculty member in the James L. Knight School of Communication for service to the undergraduate program. This year, I was honored to receive the award which is voted upon by the honor students in the school. I am humbled by my students’ excitement…
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Graduate Capstone Presentations, according to Twitter
In the Knight School of Communication, graduating Masters students presented their culminating projects April 17, 2012, to a standing-room-only crowd. The buzz on Twitter (via Storify) captured some of the spirit of the event: Share “ Can’t wait to hear the #macomm capstone presentations tonight @theknightschool @queensuniv. It’s gonna be awesome! ocomfly Mon, Apr 16…
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Now Available: Community 2.0
As our society becomes more saturated with digital technologies, members in and leaders of all types of communities will be challenged to incorporate, assess, and even design digital and media tools and experiences for their communities. Community 2.0 – at the intersection of digital media and information design – aims to integrate information design squarely…
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Egging our campus
Under the watchful eye of the Evans clock tower at Queens University of Charlotte, students awoke Wednesday to find that the residential quad on campus had been egged. On Monday, students in the digital literacy exploration seminar stuffed over 1,000 easter eggs with digital literacy tips and candy. This morning, they egged the campus by staging a…
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Reflecting on our learning about General Education
Five members of the Queens University of Charlotte faculty attended the 2012 AAC&U’s conference on General Education in New Orleans: Chip Bowen, Suzanne Cooper-Guasco, John McArthur, Lynn Morton, and Jeff Thomas. Our key take-away from the conference, aptly stated by our distinguished colleague from the English department: An excellent General Education program has clearly defined…
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