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“PR for Nonprofits” service-learning project

by corinnew July 27, 2014

I’ll be teaching “Public Relations for Nonprofit Organizations” this fall and am looking for two nonprofit organizations in the Austin area that would be interested in working with my St. Edward’s University Communication students during the fall semester! This class is a service-learning course which allows students to gain valuable hands-on PR experience while simultaneously helping out […]

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All I know about job hunting I learned in my social media class!

by corinnew August 12, 2013

Yes, I know, job hunting isn’t even on the syllabus, but believe me, this class has taught you more about job hunting than you may realize. Remember that personal learning network (PLN) we built for your class project, or that notice-me list you had to create for a homework assignment? Today, I’ll show you how […]

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Pay it Forward! We’re Replacing Final Presentations with Workshops open to the Public

by corinnew April 18, 2012

It’s that time of year: in college classrooms all over the nation, students are getting ready to put together final presentations to demonstrate what they’ve learned in their classes. This semester, I decided to raise the bar a little and to turn the traditional final presentations into free workshops open to the Austin community! I […]

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Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: The Curation Project

by corinnew April 16, 2012

I know a lot of people view curation as a buzz word devoid of meaning, but I like the metaphor! I think it beautifully captures the process we need to go through to best make sense of the vast amount of information available on the web. Of course, it doesn’t help that a lot of […]

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Negotiating multiple identities on the social web: Goffman, fragmentation and the multiverse

by corinnew November 16, 2011

(This is a keynote presentation I delivered at this year’s webCom Montréal) Let me start off with a confession: I have multiple personas. No, not multiple personalities! I have multiple personas. And I’m pretty sure you do too! Erwin Goffman, the famous Canadian sociologist once observed that when we interact with others, we enter a stage […]

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What the Bible can teach us about Personal Learning Networks: Spermalogos & Twitter birds

by corinnew August 1, 2011

Yesterday, while reading Acts 17:18, I stumbled upon the rather intriguing term “spermalogos.”If you’re not up on your New Testament Bible stories, let me briefly set the scene for you. In this verse, the apostle Paul has just arrived in Athens and finds himself in the Greek agora preaching the gospel of Christ to a bunch […]

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How the unrests in Egypt are highlighting key 21st century Internet issues

by corinnew February 1, 2011

Given the historic unrests going on in Egypt right now, I decided to ditch the syllabus yesterday and discuss Egypt’s role in highlighting 21st century Internet issues instead. I figured the Egyptian government’s unprecedented decision to disconnect 80 million people from the Internet demanded a discussion of net neutrality and the Internet Kill switch as […]

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Nov. 29th #SMCEDU Chat: Horizon Report Preview & How to Keep up With it All

by corinnew November 27, 2010

Cross-posted to: http://smcedu.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nov-29th-smcedu-chat-horizon Earlier this month the New Media Consortium posted a preview of the 2011 Horizon Report to its website (each year, the Horizon Report identifies a number of emerging technologies expected to change the way we learn and teach). As I skimmed through the 2011 Horizon Report Preview, I couldn’t shake the uneasy […]

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Going beyond the static slide: Creating engaging animations in Apple Keynote

by corinnew September 12, 2010

There’s no question that slideshows have matured over the course of the past few years and that we are finally seeing a trend away from simple bullet point design. As I was looking over this collection of 28 creative PowerPoint and Keynote presentations, one thing stood out: most of them rely on static images and text. […]

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Incorporating Personal Learning Networks into Course Projects

by corinnew August 28, 2010

Last semester I introduced a brand new project into my social media class which I’ve been meaning to report on for a while now. I decided to set 25% of the final grade aside for an assignment the students were allowed to design themselves (the project is described in detail here). The idea was to help […]

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