hi Holly Again, depending on the specifics and scope of your course I have blended theory/practice by having students learn how to create basic Wordpress blogs; write blogposts; understand hwo to embed content; post comments, etc, etc. In addition, as courses have tended to have a PR/marketing focus we also dive into social media searching/text-mining to identify influential communities and undertake content analyses, etc etc I tend to run this type of course in a computer lab - but given how many students have personal laptops it's probably equally as feasible in a standard classroom. hope that helps :) simon www.simoncollister.com | http://twitter.com/simoncollister
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:12:48 -0600 From: holly.kruse@gmail.com To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] using social media short course
I'm teaching a two-week long intersession short course called "Using Social Media" during spring intersession, and I'd love some ideas for assignments and topics to cover. It's not an online course. I've taught much more theoretical, historical, etc. semester-long courses on digital media/CMC, but this class is meant to be quite applied. I'm having the students read Nancy Baym's Personal Connections in the Internet Age and Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody, and the students will write a paper, but I need to fill three hours a day for two weeks, so any suggestions are most welcome!
Thanks,
Holly
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