Following Industry Leaders
How do we insure that industry experts students follow on twitter blog on topics relevant to the students career growth?
Austin,
I think you have to do some homework. I have a colleague that communicated his intentions to the expert. He was flattered with the attention and worked with the instructor to focus on specific topics.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Once you had discovered the industry experts and researched them, you would be able to use those experts over again for the next semester, but it could certainly be time-consuming to find those experts, research their tweets to see if they are useful to the industry (or are more personal) and to set up some kind of relationship in which they allow your students to follow them.
Christen,
True, they now come to you! This does provide interesting just in time learning. The one issue(?) is you really can't control what they post either!
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Yes, this works well. Once the initial credentialing has been met, the conversations can really get going. There is always a way to bring the "non-relevant" or "rant blogz" blog back to center.
Ava,
You are right and many times the students or audience will reign them in within the context of the conversations.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
. . . and that is an opportunity to teach (re-teach) digital etiquette.
