So today is the last day of exams, and tonight and tomorrow, students are graduating.
Graduation tomorrow should be interesting. We actually canceled our fall graduation in December, as we got something like 8 inches of snow in a matter of hours and the city shut down that day.
So the fall graduates are being invited back to walk with the spring graduates. Our usual indoor venue (the basketball arena) is undergoing construction and nothing else is big enough to hold everyone.
So, they've scheduled graduation for all of UT in the Glass Bowl, our football stadium.
Uh, I hope it goes well. Why, you ask?
Notice the little photo on my Saturday weather widget. That doesn't look like sunshine and roses to me.
Mix that nasty icon with the roofless Glass Bowl and a graduation slated to go on "rain or shine." That should be an interesting time.
Sadly, D.W. will not be there. It'll probably be another two years until I graduate with my master's degree. Slow and steady wins the race, though.
I am doing an independent study this summer about social networks and how businesses are using them to market, and how higher ed and k-12 educators are using them to teach. So if you have any good resources or contacts on either of those subjects, I'd appreciate you passing them along.
Friday, May 2, 2008
And so goes another semester ...
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Hi D.W.
Examples of facebook use - I came across this one recently:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2351381445
Not sure about the ubiquity of this in the US but I haven't seen much of it in the UK yet (although I do try to avoid spending too much time on facebook so I'm no expert!).
It's one of those where facebook/social media fit the audience and service quite well, but with enough creativity and time it seems an angle can be found for most products/sites. It seems prime for higher ed..
But then Facebook is already being devalued by advertising, applications and business profiles.. so personally I'd like to see what happens with it over the next year or so. That said, I guess most users are ad-blind (or ad-unaware) so may not be as perturbed as me by the changes of the last year or so.
Anyway, good luck on this project ;)
Interesting thoughts, ad. Thanks for sharing that link. Yeah, I think that the more advertisers and others jump on the social marketing bandwagon, the more users will move to another space -- other than mySpace -- that they truly view as theirs.
Advertisers have been chasing people for years -- first in the marketplaces, then in the papers, then TV, and now the Internet. Who knows where they'll go next?
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