COM 6630 Strategic Communication and Emerging Media

COM 6630 Strategic Communication and Emerging Media

The whole wide world of communication.  Where would we be without it? Strategic Communication and Emerging Media has definitely been a course that has opened my eyes and has introduced me to various concepts of communication which includes things like print media, multimedia, social media, and broadcasting.  

I must say it has been a very rewarding and sometimes challenging nine weeks!  I have certainly learned more about communication and technology within the last few weeks than I ever dreamt possible.  We touched on some very interesting and thought provoking subjects for instance; the changing of mass media’s landscape, the power of technology, the future of technology, educators and social media in the classroom, citizen journalism, crowdsourcing, branding on the internet, and children and technology to name a few areas.  In looking back over the topics covered, I think the areas I enjoyed most were learning about “crowdsourcing” and getting different perspectives about the effects technology has on children.  Children are definitely our future and so we must prepare them for where technology is heading and expose them and even ourselves to the next “big thing” in technology.  Another thing I really enjoyed was introducing our readers to a new or improved piece of technology and having to describe the significance of that technology.  I was introduced to some things that I had no idea was even on the horizon of going public like the Smart Projector, wow! being able to give a presentation anywhere, anytime on anything is just so amazing to me.  I was also introduced to the Smartwatch technology which is one of the next innovate ideas that you can find in the market today.

I believe I have walked away from this class with some very valuable information and holding on to one major component that if we are serious about being a strategic communicator we have to be open to change and embrace the new and innovate ideas that are on the horizon for technology and communication.