Andi Narvaez: Re-learning PR

Join me here, as I live blog the Fourth Annual “Innovations in Teaching and Learning” Conference at University of Maryland. I’ll be live blogging and tweeting as often as I can with the #ITL_UMD and #SMCEDU hashtags. This is my first live blogging experience so please bear with me. I hope you can participate with your comments and tweets! Below is a little information about the conference but you can click here to learn more and view the program. See you all in a few hours!

To mean to or not to mean to, that is the question

During my first class as a graduate student at University of Maryland, Introduction to Graduate Study in Communication, we discussed articles defining the field in general written by George Gerbner, Gerald Miller and Thomas Nilsen. Miller’s work in particular stirred the class into intense conversation about intentional and unintentional communication and whether the latter should be considered communication at all.

I’ll save you the suspense and say that for the purposes of communication research, the answer is mainly no.

*It's a blog!*

That’s the WordPress default title for the sample post that comes published with every new WordPress account. On the surface it’s a rather generic, upbeat greeting. Underneath the surface it’s an open invitation to allow yourself to run wild and to unleash your inner blogging beast all over your brand new, endless white canvas.

If you scroll down you’ll come to realize that this is not my first post. And yet it is.

What used to be “Andi Narvaez: Down and Across” is now “Andi Narvaez: Re-learning PR.” Welcome to my refreshed blog.