Comments on: Social Media for the Academic Institution http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/25/social-media-for-the-academic-institution/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 09 May 2011 23:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: amyschexnayder http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/25/social-media-for-the-academic-institution/#comment-38 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:08:56 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=210#comment-38 I think this session and the one I suggested could be combined – this is a lot of what I had in mind. 🙂

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By: Paul Logasa Bogen II http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/25/social-media-for-the-academic-institution/#comment-25 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:59:06 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=210#comment-25 I have actually just come across a planning-phase initiative with a student and professor at TAMU focused on building a social network / clearinghouse for people interested in injustice research. I have some ideas on the subject and I’m toying with options to suggest them to implement (Omeka, Drupal with a heavy helping of modules, OpenSocial, and MediaWiki). But not really certain how to best support the potential community the student and professor seek to engage.

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By: jessica.c.murphy http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/03/25/social-media-for-the-academic-institution/#comment-24 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:27:50 +0000 http://texas2011.thatcamp.org/?p=210#comment-24 I am currently at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Montreal, where I co-presented on an assignment that uses a social network platform to teach early modern drama to undergraduates. Our main frustration for the assignment was that there is nothing resembling institutional support for this kind of engaging and exciting way to get students to understand both their relationship to performance and the dramatic texts themselves. In fact, university LMS/CMS platforms tend to discourage collaborative and social behavior. I would like to tack onto your suggestion here by adding a consideration of how we can get our institutions to do some of this work too.

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