Communication
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Experimenting with Pinterest in the college classroom
The article below was featured on the Social Media Club’s Education Blog on September 17, 2012. I embarked on another classroom teaching and learning experiment this fall on Pinterest. One hundred of our students at Queens University of Charlotte were dispatched into the venues and streets of Charlotte as student interns and volunteers during the 2012 Democratic…
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Social Media Changes Journalism – @sleuth presents at #COMM360
So excited to have the talented @sleuth speaking in #COMM360 today @QueensUniv: How social media changes journalism. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Google Share on Linkedin Share by email JAMcArthur Thu, Aug 30 2012 09:21:15 ReplyRetweet 0 likes · 0 comments People are most likely to engage in branded…
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Charlotte and the Convention
This morning, Jennifer Hull and I appeared on Fox News Rising in Charlotte to promote the COMM 360 experience starting August 30, 2012 at Queens University of Charlotte. Watch the video on the FoxCharlotte website. If you’re interested in joining us for the events, here is the full schedule: Joining us for Charlotte and the…
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Reflecting on my Academic Niche
As we develop our professional niches, do we take enough time to reflect on what we are learning? As I’ve been reflecting on my “academic niche,”I’ve realized that several recent experiences have uniquely shaped my scholarly agenda: Sed Ministrare 2010 I was humbled to give the Sed Ministrare address to incoming freshmen at Queens in August 2010. My…
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Digital Pedagogy: An Experiment with Pinterest
On the topic of teaching with technology, I wrote this in 2007 (published in 2009): As “digital natives” (Prensky, 2001) enter the classroom, instructors must engage these students and expand their burgeoning and often technologically nuanced skills. The incorporation of technologies into classroom instruction challenges students and instructors alike; but, this challenge is both a necessary…
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Charlotte moves to #DroptheNC
Convention Watch: Stop it with the N.C., already Our city has the Panthers, the Bobcats, Bank of America and even the dang Democratic National Convention. And still news readers around the USA have to be reminded that we are Charlotte, N.C.? Baltimore has fewer people, but you won’t see Baltimore, Md. atop news stories about…
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Pedagogy, then Technology
Want to integrate technology into your classroom? Choose technology that supports your pedagogical aims. That’s the message of my workshop conducted this morning at the Teaching Professor Conference in Washington, DC. Attendees worked together to create opportunities to infuse their courses with technology. I presented 4 experiments that I’ve tried in my classroom with social…
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“Design Thinking” at ACBJ’s Digital Speaker Series
Our Community 2.0 project is starting to generate some attention, and I was honored to be invited to share my work in the Digital Speaker Series hosted by American City Business Journals in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week. Here is the slide deck from the presentation, which focused on applying design thinking to the issues of…
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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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