Intro to Social Media and Web 2.0 Tools Through Faculty Practices

In the "self-promotion" department, I'd like to invite folks who are interested to join me on Ustream this Thursday July 22 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. I think that this workshop I'll be moderating might be on interest to a lot of Sakai folks who attended my Unsexy LMS session at the Denver conference.

The purpose of this workshop is to present a bunch of different ways instructors have used free web resources to enhance their student’s learning.

See http://bit.ly/smpractices0710 for more details. Hope to see some of you on the backchannel (use the #smpractices hashtag during the workshop)!

Faculty Practice: Use of Blogs in Anu Sivaraman's Marketing Classes

I recorded a short interview with Anu Sivaraman, Professor, Business Administration, about her use of blogs in her IT in Marketing classes. We tried to keep the video as short as possible and were able to keep it down to 5 minutes.



I think this practice is really smart, since marketing graduates tend to get entry-level jobs that requires them to maintain or publish to blogs, and be involved in business social media from the get-go.

I am going to use this video during my new training session on social media and web 2.0 in higher education that's coming up next week. Although it is targeted at UD faculty, I'll Ustream it as well. Check my Twitter account for updates (@mathplourde)!