Friday, March 7, 2008

Connecting with Students Online

I'm a little embarrassed that I encouraged people to attend this webinar yesterday. The title was so promising. The presentation was too simplistic. He focused on tech tools (e.g. what's a blog? hmmm, let me think...) and not on methods for using those tools. He spent time classifying types of orientations and never spoke to which works for which groups.

On a more positive note, several of us did sit and chat after the presentation. We talked about this project and several others that are in the works. Should be good times ahead for Kirkwood students. Or maybe just more connected times ahead. And connections are good.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Alan, so the seminar was a bust but the conversation was good. Can you share any of the good parts of the conversation (what projects are in the works?..)

Alan said...

Well, not a complete bust, but I was hoping for something more... or something different.

Upcoming projects? Keep a watch out for EagleNation (this blog is part of that). Look for Kirkwood in social networking venues. And an exciting new (part-time) position is opening up at the library.