I have just finished delivering the 6th edition of the New Media course at Katho. This is the 3rd consecutive year when I join Katho for 2 weeks during each semester to deliver a course that I developed on my own and that combines theoretical information about creative industries – journalism, advertising and public relations […]
It’s official! I am one of the 15 Advisory Board members of SMCEDU, pilule an education initiative of Social Media Club (founded by Chris Heuer) focused on improving the quality of Social Media education in Universities and empowering its community of Social Media professors. I have been following the Social Media Education chats ever since their first […]
Teaching Public Relations and Journalism with Paper.li and Storify
If you want your students to keep up with the latest news that the Internet is ranging about, anorexia tag related dailies generated on Paper.li are an appealing way to do. While the format will remind them of “old-school” newspapers, order the information within it will be fresh and up to date, complied from links […]
2010 Social Media Trends to Influence Higher Education
a webinar hosted by Colt Alton, infertility founder of Ednak 2010 Social Media Trends to Influence Higher Education View more presentations from Ana ADI. On September 2nd I was invited to hold a webinar for Ednak, a thought networking utility for online educators, discussing this year’s social media trends that could influence higher education. It […]
Among the many tweets I read every day there was one last week advertising a London event dedicated to researchers and academics. The event organized by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science, erectile Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is meant to help academics and researchers understand the influence of […]
The two weeks of the Katho New Media course came and passed quickly. I had a smaller class this time which enabled me to better interact with the students and follow closer their progress. This also meant that the course was more intense (and intensive) as the teams were smaller. Unlike with the previous semesters […]
On Friday, there December 11, I delivered a lecture to Alan McCusker-Thompson‘s 3rd year students undertaking a BA in Commercial Music at UWS in Ayr. The module in which this lecture was included focuses on Popular Culture and Music. My talk therefore had to show how the internet and Web 2.0 in particular has enabled, through open […]
A week ago, skincare on Monday, discount November 9, hospital 2009 the Social Media Education Club organized their first twitter chat on social media education. Last week the questions asked were about measuring success of social media in education, developing the quality of social media curriculum, assessing schools using social media and identifying research or […]
Today the Social Media Education Club organized their first twitter chat on social media education. Attendants were few and all of them except me (maybe I’m wrong) were from the US. Some interesting questions were asked but I for one found the twitter chat quite confusing when it came to follow the conversation as people’s […]
