Professor Disrupting Lecture Hall with Best Use of Skype Ever. GUEST COLUMN | by Jessy Irwin Through a YouTube request, professor John Boyer lands skype interview with Aung Sun Suu Kyi For the third time in a row, Virginia Tech professor John Boyer has managed to turn a YouTube video from his World Regions class of 3,000 into a once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity for his students. As an exceptionally passionate and somewhat irreverent educator who thrives on social media, Boyer has most recently used his viral YouTube tactics to lure actors Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez to Virginia Tech to present their film, “The Way.” During the Spring 2010 semester, he also convinced wine aficionado, social media guru and businessman Gary Vaynerchuk to stop through Blacksburg, Virginia, to speak to his Geography of Wine students during Vaynerchuck’s book tour. Having been recently liberated from 30 years of house arrest imposed on her by dictator Than Shwe, Suu Kyi recently met with U.S.
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