I attended the 5th annual Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education Conference in Brookings, South Dakota this week. The consortium grants this year are involving the use of social media to help engage student leadership and increase service-learning. I find this stuff fascinating anyways. Using blogs, facebook, twitter, wikis, etc to involve students is awesome. I have been playing around with a lot of these applications lately (jott, twitter, stumbleupon, diigo, digg, etc) to get a better feel for them.
The conference was interesting because the majority of the people there are of a different generation. Many of them were ignorant of the technology and therefore very resistent. I was fortunate enough to be involved in a session where we had a few open adults. They were brave enough to ask what facebook was. So we were able to show them on the computer and projector what facebook was. We explained it in a way that was relevant to them and their work. It was fascinating to see how excited they were when they started to understand its applications!
There was a man in the room who worked a lot with voice transcription software. I was able to show jott to him. I called and left one w/him on speakerphone and then pulled it up on the computer and showed him how it shows up online and how you can set up reminders, etc. That guy left excited to get a facebook profile and a jott account. It was so great for me to see that transformation right in front of me!
In addition to all this fun stuff, I was lucky enough to get to see all my friends from pso and the other consortium VISTAs. We know how to have a good time! These guys are my family here. I love them all so much. idk what I would do without them!
Awesome video about social media in the classroom
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