August 29th, 2008
Washington DC Diary: Social Media Tools in the Academic World
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It’s week three in Washington DC and I have started my research on the “BRIC Model of Social Media” as the Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown University.
Even as I do my own research, I am endlessly fascinated by my first hand exposure to the use of social media tools in the academic world.
The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown University — run by Randall Bass and Eddie Maloney — is driving the education 2.0 thinking at Georgetown. CNDLS runs the Digital Commons platform that allows Georgetown students, faculty, and staff to use blogs, wikis, forums, podcasts, portfolios, posters, timelines and dStories for communication and collaboration. The CNDLS team is setting up has already set up the official “ISD Yahoo! Fellowship Blog” over the weekend and I have a few ideas on how to introduce a wiki and a podcast into the mix during the year. dStories, a multimedia authoring tool that allows you to combine texts, images and audio files into a short film clip — or a digital story — can be quite cool too. This gallery of the CNDLS education 2.0 projects gives a sense of what is possible with these tools.
But education 2.0 at Georgetown University goes beyond CNDLS. Prof. Anthony Arend and Prof. D Linda Garcia who run the Masters of Science in Foreign Services (MSFS) and Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) programs respectively run their own brilliantly written blogs on Exploring International Law and Exploring Interdisciplinarity. gnovis, the Georgetown University Journal of Communication, Culture and Technology has a great blog and some of the past and present CCT students have interesting blogs on internet culture (I have discovered Jessica Vitak and Jed Brubaker but I am sure that there are many more).
And, finally, as I was about to click the “publish” button, I realized that Ben Turner and Pavneet Singh — the two super-smart MSFS students who will be my research partners — have been contributing to a MSFS Summer Adventure 2008 class blog.
This year is going to be great fun!
Update: I almost forgot to mention that Prof. Michael Nelson, who describes himself as an “internet policy wonk from Senate/ White House/ FCC/ IBM”, has 500+ followers on Twitter.
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Looks like you have really taken off. I will enjoy following your path!!
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Welcome to Georgetwon - I look forward to reading what you are up to!
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@Ms. Garcia/ Jed: Thank you for your attention. I’m looking forward to being a part of the Georgetown community.
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