Discovering Social Media. Wednesday, December 7, 2011 For my team teaching presentation in #NewhouseSM4, my group members and I presented on social media within the higher education industry (#SMHE). We covered topics such as success stories with social media and the lessons we learned from the experts. To complete this project, we made a powerpoint presentation through slideshare, utilized google docs, participated in a google hangout, exchanged numerous texts, emails, and tweets, as well as met face-to-face.
While using the different forms of social media to connect with one another was helpful, meeting face-to-face definitely put us all on the same page. I presented on Oregon State University’s social media mashup site. The website is a social hub for all social media platforms that OSU is apart of. To make the presentation a bit more relevant to SU students, I also presented on what SU is doing - social media wise. Monday, October 17, 2011 For a class assignment I had to try out Pearltrees. Tweet gRID. 70 Percent of College Career Centers have a Facebook Page. Facebook and the Feds have teamed to make job hunters’ lives a little easier, by creating a special Facebook page that consolidates some of the newest and best tools for matching job seekers with jobs available.
Facebook, in announcing this Social Jobs Partnership, notes social websites are playing an ever more important role in job-hunting, recruitment and hiring. A survey by National Association of Colleges and Employers, a partner in the effort, finds that more than 70 percent of college career centers have a Facebook page.A Great resource as an Example is ResumeBear page. Where New Job Openings will be posted daily starting Nov 15th A survey this summer by Jobvite, a recruiting site, found that 64 percent of human resources and recruiting professionals who responded said they had hired through social networks this year, compared with 58 percent in 2010.
There are currently about 14 million people unemployed, said Solis, and about 3 million job openings nationwide. Facebook for College Enrollment and Retention. Top 100 Social Media Colleges. SOC: Social Media | Link: The Journal of Higher Education Web Professionals. Social Media and Higher Education. Harvard Model of Education Doesn't Work Anymore. 3 Social Media Lessons from San Jacinto College | Inigral Insights. “We live in a real-time world and social media takes real effort from real people.” Earlier this week I had the privilege of speaking with two real people on the San Jacinto marketing team, who recently launched our product, the Schools App, last month at their college. Alyssa Webb is the Social Media Coordinator and Amanda Booren is the Director of Communications and Publications for San Jacinto College. One month after launch, over 2,400 students had joined the application. Alyssa and Amanda are “doing their happy dance” because of the engagement and conversation in their community.
Below are the lessons Alyssa and Amanda shared with me as they implemented a new private Facebook community for their campus. 1. Integrated Marketing is NOT Optional Many schools have learned the hard way that “if you build it, they will come” is not true for social media. In order to increase awareness and educate their students San Jac took these 5 steps: 2. 3. Wake Forest University Goes Google+ - PR Newswire. 5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom. Social media has found a prominent place in the college classroom. In fact, nearly 80 percent of faculty members are using social media in some way, according to a recent survey of nearly 2,000 college faculty by the Babson Survey Research Group published in April. While some platforms, such as YouTube, have been widely accepted in the classroom, Twitter has been slower to catch on as a teaching tool.
In the same survey, only 2 percent of professors reported using the microblogging site—which limits posts to 140 characters—in class. Jim Newman, a Ph.D. student and instructor at Northern Illinois University, says that he uses Twitter not as a news source for his class but as a bulletin board. "[Twitter] is not something I'm going to be using to chat [with students]," Newman says. Where some college instructors use the platform to update students on classroom logistics, it offers others an opportunity for community learning. 1. 2. 3. "It was really impressive what they did," Wilson says. 4. Imagining College Life Without Social Media.
It has become ingrained in our culture: Social media networks have risen from latest trends to digital luxuries to day-to-day necessities in less than a decade. On college campuses, students use platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to connect with friends, to collaborate with classmates, and to correspond with professional contacts. So what would happen if these services were taken away? "I would freak out," says Michael Conley, a senior at Indiana University—Bloomington. "I wouldn't know what to do.
" Conley, a self-proclaimed social media addict, estimates that he spends 10 hours a day using platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, mainly for professional networking and "communicating with like-minded people. " "[Social media] plays a big role in my day-to-day activities," Conley says. "A lot of the classes I take here at IU encourage us to use social media and engage with classmates. " [See five unique uses of Twitter in the classroom.] Do You Blog? Tweet? Workshop on Social Media Nov. 11. Faculty and other members of the Duke community are invited to take part in a social media workshop organized by Duke's Office of News & Communications (ONC) on Friday, Nov. 11. ONC will open the session by introducing Duke faculty members who have been exploring this new landscape by using such social media tools as blogs, Twitter and Facebook.
Marc Bellamare, Lori Bennear, Mark Anthony Neal and Don Taylor will describe their experiences with social media -- what's worked and what hasn't -- and address common questions from faculty, such as: -- Is it a good idea to use blogging and other new "social media" to promote your scholarship, or is this just a trendy waste of time? -- Can social media enhance your research or teaching? -- What are the potential advantages and pitfalls of being online so publicly? -- How do you balance this activity with your other responsibilities? The workshop runs from 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 11 in Room 04 of the Sanford School of Public Policy. Converge Consulting | Measurable Multi-Channel Marketing Solutions for Higher Education —Analytics & Optimization —Donor Research & Planning —Higher Education Marketing Consulting.
University College Expands Student Services to Facebook and Mobile Devices. Student Services | News University College Expands Student Services to Facebook and Mobile Devices University College at Texas Tech University is using RightNow Technologies customer relationship suite to connect and provide services to students through Facebook and mobile devices. RightNow is in the process of being acquired by Oracle. The move reflects a growing trend among higher education institutions to engage and interact with students via their preferred devices and social media channels.
RightNow CX for Facebook enables University College students to not only stay abreast of what's happening in school, but also get answers and help from the "Support" feature of the school's Facebook page. Users can browse topics and perform keyword searches to get answers from the knowledge base and community.
For additional information on RightNow CX, visit RightNow's site. About the Author Kanoe Namahoe is online editor for 1105 Media's Education Group. Future Of Education Is Mobile, Social, and in the Cloud: Lessons from EduCause, Part One. Putting student engagement at the heart of HE - live chat best bits | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. Reynol Junco, professor in academic development and counselling, Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania, USA Define engagement: You can ask just about any instructor to tell you who their most engaged students are, and they will be able to do it.
However, it's not clear that their definitions of engagement will be the same. I define engagement as: "The time and effort students invest in educational activities that are empirically linked to desired college outcomes". Using engagement measurement tools: I have used a modified version of the National Survey of Student Engagement to measure engagement in my research. More recently, I have been developing a coding manual to measure behavioural indices of engagement in the classroom. Resources: My research focuses on how social media such as Facebook and Twitter can be used to improve student and academic engagement and how this relates to learning. A few recent papers on this topic: • The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades.
How colleges use, misuse social media to reach students. Johns Hopkins University has an interactive site with blogs and videos by current students for prospective students. Universities are reaching out to engage with applicants on Facebook and TwitterExpert: Colleges should make their social media interactions personalStudent: "Why have a Twitter account if you only have four tweets in the past few months? "Survey: 98% of colleges have a Facebook page; 84% have a Twitter account (CNN) -- It was a joyous day for Lucie Fink when she received her acceptance letter from Johns Hopkins University. Like most prospective students, she wanted to know exactly what she was getting into before she made her decision between schools.
So she went to the Web to get her answers. "There were all these kids that were so passionate about sharing their experience," Fink said. Daniel Creasy, the associate director of admissions and one of the people behind Hopkins Interactive, believes that it provides an uncensored look at the school. Top social media colleges. Wired Campus. A draft social-media policy at Sam Houston State University—which would force anyone with a campus-related Twitter, Facebook, or other online account to give university administrators editing privileges—led to calls of censorship by students. Now officials say they will revisit the plan. The backlash followed the university’s release last month of a new social-media portal, called Social Universe. The original draft of guidelines for using the portal stated that any department or organization that joined would be required to release its username and password to the university, giving the college the right to oversee and edit any activity on the accounts.
Some students felt the language in the guidelines was overreaching, so they staged a demonstration against the policy late last month, says Stephen M. Green, a sophomore and associate editor of the campus newspaper. Kristina K. The language in the guidelines, Ms. Protest Leads to Protest The students chose to take down the banner. Ms. Silicon Valley Social — swissnex. Higher Education Social Media Use Case « Radian6 - Social Media Monitoring and Engagement.
Press Release Distribution - PR Agency. Infographic: The Best Education Sites That Are Ruling The Web. Truth be told, higher education has not weathered the Internet revolution as well as many might have hoped. Higher ed's nearly endemic clumsiness with web protocol has become so well established in the minds of Internet users that the primitive, clunky .edu homepage is now something of a cliche. However, a few schools have been taking notes all along, honing their social media skills to enviable levels of perfection. Enter this infographic from Best Education Sites, which has amassed some fascinating statistics on the way schools today are navigating the Web — with an eye toward social media — and gives due credit to the ones that are doing it the best. Created by: Best Education Sites.