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Social Media Activities for College Students

Reviewed:
Dec 12, 2022 by Business
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 4.8 stars
Content Quality: 4.8 stars
Effectiveness: 4.5 stars
Ease of Use: 4.8 stars
Overview:

This is a social media teaching blog containing suggestions and resources to teach a variety of social media activities, exercises, and assignments. In addition to the exercises, the author provides a link for users to download his social media class syllabus. The syllabus landing page has examples of syllabi for hybrid and asynchronous courses.

Type of Material:

In addition to the collection of resources, the blog serves as a platform to market the author's book entitled "Teach Social Media: A Plan for Creating a Course Your Students Will Love."  The blog also promotes a colleague's PR textbook "Discovering Public Relations: An Introduction to Creative and Strategic Practices" where he developed some of the ancillary materials.

Recommended Uses:

This is more of an instructor resource than it is a site that should be directly used by students.  

Technical Requirements:

Web browser

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Students will be able to:

  • Utilize various social media activities 
  • Understand how to use the Mimic Social Simulator
  • Learn how to create a podcast
Target Student Population:

College Upper Division, Marketing Majors, PR Majors, Mass Communications Majors, Advertising Majors

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

A basic understanding of social media and public relations will be beneficial for users.

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:

Content provides information for a variety of topics.

Content is flexible for usage by instructors and/or users.

Concept demonstration is good via the use of activities and labs.

Content is supported via additional links in the material.

Concerns:

Content could use additional information to support the materials presented.

Format may not be appropriate to all users.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:

Content promotes conceptual understanding of the topic.

Content could be used in the integration of a preexisting course.

Content could be used in the overall assessment of learning outcomes.

Content has been tested in a classroom setting and additional ideas for implementation are provided. 

Concerns:

Author does not supply learning outcomes.

Author does not supply any prerequisite knowledge.

Material is dated and may need to be adapted to be relevant to today's classroom and student needs.

 

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:

Site was in working order at time of review.

Software is engaging and supplies instructions for use.

Site is easy to use.

Concerns:
  • Reviewer was unable to determine accessibility requirements.
  • Site is not consistent in appearance; each topic is visually different.
  • A lot of scrolling is needed to find relevant posts. 
Other Issues and Comments:

 

This site is useful for instruction of each topic.  However, each topic has a different appearance and may not be consistent.

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