This one comes from John Carson who worked with Upper Canada College from June 2007 until May 2008. Their efforts were awarded The Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education’s 2008 PRIX D’EXCELLENCE Bronze Award for Best E-Innovation in University Advancement and also the Council for Advancement and Support of Education 2008 Circle of Excellence Bronze Award. Read more to learn how they did it.

Getting Started with Social Media

Join us on May 21, 2009 at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas for a social media bootcamp experience.

Who should attend: Higher-ed, K-12 administrators and staff in Admissions, Marketing, Communications, External-affairs, Advancement, or Alumni/Development.

Many thanks to everyone who helped to make the bootcamp a success. We’re looking forward to the next one – stay tuned!
Check out the edSocialMedia wiki at http://wiki.edsocialmedia.com for content and links.

We had a chance to talk with the guys behind BrainyFlix, an SAT vocabulary test prep site that is running a vocabulary video contest. They are making use of social media tools to create a space for students and teachers to share creative videos focused on learning new vocabulary. In addition, they are making use of social media to get the word out about their service. We covered both topics during our conversation.

Happy New Year everyone. Let me start off 2009 with a few loosely connected ideas.

What does a connected, always-on student look like? Connectivism repeated – http://vodpod.com/watch/1193251-connectivism-in-plain-english.
If students have access to content everywhere, all the time, …

The New York Times published this Q&A with a panel of Admissions officers from some of the top colleges in the country. If you haven’t done so already, I highly recommend checking it out.
It seems …

I have thinking about the nature of ‘marketing’ and what Lessig calls the ‘remix’ generation.
Let me frame this with a few interesting statistics from Bazaarvoice:

Trust in “a person like me” has tripled, from …

I was visiting with a group of Admissions folks and the topic of the email marketing came up.
“These kids don’t read email, I had a parent tell me to text her son to remind him …

A very good roundtable discussion about social media use in schools by Peter Baron from onBoarding Schools Podcast, Steve Ritchie from Proof and edSocMed, and Antonio Viva from Worcester Academy. The video was broadcast from …

I sat down with the Admissions team at TLU earlier this week to discuss their social-media strategy. It was a lively conversation and lots of great ideas were batted around. Here’s a synopsis of our talking points.