Month: October 2014
Is connected about “plugging in”? What does it mean to you?
I’ve been struggling for some time now (well, since the summer anyway) to make sense of what being “connected” really means when it comes to educators and courses. I’ve seen a few general ideas of what connected means to others and I’ve seen some of it in action through my participation in connected courses and…
How to Develop Campus Community through Social Media
Originally posted on Josie Ahlquist:
For higher education professionals, many decisions are grounded in building a strong campus community. How best to offer student services, programming calendars, leadership opportunities, dining hall hours, and the list goes on. Each segment of campus life leading students to be more integrated and engaged into the campus community. Because…
Social Media: the Key to Online Student Services
Originally posted on Stuff too big for Twitter….:
A few weeks ago Josie Ahlquist wrote a great post on developing campus community through social media. Before you read this, go read that post (it is good). She used published research (thank you!) to make a great argument that the strategic implementation of social networking sites…
Connected means more than just “plugging in”
I’ve been struggling for some time now (well, since the summer anyway) to make sense of what being “connected” really means when it comes to educators and courses. I’ve seen a few general ideas of what connected means to others and I’ve seen some of it in action through my participation in connected courses. I’m…
Does this look familiar to you? Unfortunately the “lecture” is still common place in many classrooms. Yet…. Lectures are great for getting students to repeat information but they are one of the worst teaching strategies for promoting in-depth understanding….It would be difficult to find a model worse than the one used for teaching in most…