Tagged: "Students"
Surprise! Alumni Relations IS Admissions Outreach (Pt. 1)
A crazy thing happened the other day while I was looking over some page flow analytics for one of my education clients. I noticed that more than 50% of all of the traffic to their alumni section had either come from, or flowed to, admissions-related areas of the site. “What the f…” I thought for [...]
Is it Really Vandalism?
OH NO!! Someone posted something negative on your social media feed! Best to delete it before the head of development sees it, right? Wrong. In most cases, a seemingly negative post actually falls somewhere in the middle of a grey area, not positive, but not truly offensive. In this post I’ve distilled the experiences of [...]
Get Students to Care About Copyright
In my own classroom, I fight the good fight every day, wrestling with students who want to use copyrighted music or images in their work. I’m writing literally here. I’m not afraid to throw a kid in a headlock for slipping the latest Owl City release into a slide show. I realize, however, students are [...]
Student Blogging to 50,000 Views: Gould Academy Glog
“How do I build & sustain a student blog?” or “How do I find student bloggers?” or “How do I make sure that they speak in their voices?” Do any of these sound familiar? I hear them regularly. All valid; all difficult to answer. When offering my two cents, I almost always start by encouraging [...]
Must See ‘New Hampton’ TV!
Have you caught Hans Mundahl's latest edSocialMedia video (Social Media and the Carpentry Puzzle)? If not, take 5 minutes, it's worth every second. His post provides an ideal segue into edSocialMedia's latest podcast. Hans & I began with a conversation about the tensions that pop up as schools begin to participate in social media and from there focused on the student produced livecast New Hampton TV. He spoke about the program's growth, the technological & communication lessons learned by the students, and some of the surprises they've faced along the way.
Must See ‘New Hampton’ TV!
Have you caught Hans Mundahl's latest edSocialMedia video (Social Media and the Carpentry Puzzle)? If not, take 5 minutes, it's worth every second. His post provides an ideal segue into edSocialMedia's latest podcast. Hans & I began with a conversation about the tensions that pop up as schools begin to participate in social media and from there focused on the student produced livecast New Hampton TV. He spoke about the program's growth, the technological & communication lessons learned by the students, and some of the surprises they've faced along the way.
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