Comments on: Social Media for the Academic Institution

By: amyschexnayder

amyschexnayder — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:08:56 +0000

I think this session and the one I suggested could be combined – this is a lot of what I had in mind. 🙂

By: Paul Logasa Bogen II

Paul Logasa Bogen II — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:59:06 +0000

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.

By: jessica.c.murphy

jessica.c.murphy — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:27:50 +0000

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.