How can you convey academic expertise in a 2-minute online video? Stick to this one-question interview format used by Duke University’s Office of News & Communication. In this video available on YouTube and titled “Duke University Professor Explains Why So Many Lemur Species,” Anne Yoder, the director of Duke Lemur Center, answers a question pertaining […]
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The Question: a new twist on academic blogging at West Virginia University
What a great and different way to promote an academic department to the campus community and the world! I know, I know, this first line isn’t very informative, but I really think West Virginia University is defintely onto something with the blog recently launched by its Philosophy department and its Web Services: The Question. And, […]
How to showcase your faculty expertise with 10-minute weekly podcasts: California Western’s “Law in 10”
Podcasts and blogs are great ways to build long-term relationships with your target audiences and capture their interest (if not their heart). Thanks to RSS, it’s easy to turn casual web visitors into passionate regulars or dedicated evangelists. That’s why blogs and podcasts are such great tools to showcase the expertise of your faculty members. […]
Iowa State University promotes its language programs with podcasts
Information about academic programs ranks very high in what high school students are looking for on a college/university website. This is why the podcasts produced by the department of foreign languages and literatures at Iowa State University are a very, very good idea. As announced in an article titled “Podcasts are being used to bring […]
Educause 2005 Annual Conference: Faculty and technology, friends or foes?
I guess you already have your opinion on the big question, and the answer depends on the people composing this important constituency on campus. However, with a new generation of students considering their cell phones, instant messengers, laptops or iPods as life lines, the question has become an existential one for people in charge of […]
Promoting your university by showcasing good class blogs?
I’ve already mentioned that more and more universities/colleges use freshman blogs as promotional tools to give prospective students and their parents a preview of the first-year college life on their campus. In “Professors introduce blogs in class assignments,” an article published in The Chronicle, Mingyang Liu reports on the chair of Duke Department of Political […]
Campus life: Should you worry about IOS?
If you’re reading these lines in your RSS reader or in the middle of the night, chances are that you have already contracted IOS: Information Overload Syndrome Anyway, it’s an occupational hazard (addiction?) in our line of work… What about for students or faculty? Has the Information Overload Syndrome also become an alarming reality for […]
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