Here is an study on student/faculty relationships on Facebook. It is authored by Hewitt and Forte at Georgie Tech, and outlines a project that is currently at the half-way mark. The first part of the project involved a survey of students regarding their attitudes about faculty participation in Facebook. It included a set of questions designed to rate the their interactions with faculty through Facebook, and also the specific question, “Should faculty be on the Facebook?”
Tag: social-media
Looking for an Online Social Networking Product
In response to a request from Campus Activities here at NC State, I am currently researching different products that could be used for university-sponsored online social networks. I had hoped that the Libraries here at State were developing something on this front (as they have for wikis and blogs) but no such luck. (I can see where this actually is outside the realm of the Libraries, but it never hurts to hope!) Nothing like this going on out of ITD, and I still need to check with DELTA.
I’ve played around with Ning, and there are certainly others, and I’ve found one review (so far) of several products. However, providing such a tool is fraught with all sorts of problems: accessibility, privacy, and so on. Some colleagues at the University of Minnesota are engaged in a similar project so I hope to get some good ideas from them.
ELI07: Documenting the Conference
The efforts to document individual experiences at this conference, and provide opportunities to collaborate are quite extensive. This is in addition to documenting the cohort and large group learning and materials.
First, a Twitter account (event? account? still new to Twitter lingo) has been set up for this ELI event and lots of folks are posting to that.
Second, anyone who is blogging their experience (or otherwise documenting on photo-sharing or social networking sites) has been encouraged to use the tag “ELI07NetSavvySession” so that no matter where the posts live, they will all be aggregated together at the EDUCAUSE Connect site.
Third, there are a number of “extra” multi-media materials being developed in parallel with the conference. For example, I will record a podcast later this afternoon that will summarize my presentation from earlier this morning. That podcast (and others, I assume) will be available as part of the conference materials. I also was part of a group that was interviewed by Diana Oblinger on all these “net savvy student” topics. I look forward to see those final products.
Fourth, all materials from the presentations (both general sessions and concurrent break out sessions) will soon be available on the web. Several of us have decided to beef up what was shown on the screen. Knowing my presentation would later be uploaded to the web, I decided not to clutter up the version I actually presented with links and references and copyright notices and all that. So what I upload will actually be much more complete.