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Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

Corvida — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:37:59 -0000

That's who I'm also doing school with. I can't say I share the same sentiments. Not when it comes to the group projects anyway.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

harry — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:10:27 -0000

You probably put too much hope in your university social networking capabilities... In my university years we couldn't have done this due the technical limitations but even so the social part of the institution wasn't too bad, they were first of all very well organized and I liked that from the start. Now over the years I am still prowd I graduated the University of Phoenix.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

Erik — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:15:32 -0000

I work in higher ed web dev and I'll certainly agree that colleges are extremely slow on the uptake of new technology. There needs to be some sort of mechanism that allows administration to review business processes every year (enhanced with student satisfaction surveys) and see if any new technologies allow for more efficient returns.

However, in this particular case with transcripts, there are a lot of legal issues involved (especially FERPA as someone else mentioned). In many cases a written signature is still required by law, and what constitutes an "online signature" is still murky.

The other issue is that even if the college staff used IM or twitter to communicate, they would likely become overburdened with requests very quickly and response times would still lag. Plus, most college staff wear 5 different hats anyway and do things beyond their job description because of a lack of sufficient people/budgets, which is why most are not receptive to changing thing which could potentially increase their workload even more.

Hopefully we'll get there.....at some point.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

smbeebe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:35:21 -0000

Excellent post Cordiva... I work in Education arena and all of these examples you give are such an great opportunity for Schools to become accessible and responsive to their client base, but unfortunately they are slow to adopt the very technology which would easily remove these frustrating barriers and put them in touch with their students and prospects.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

dberkholz — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:36:55 -0000

I agree, popular people deserve better service than everyone else.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

kadesoto — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:51:10 -0000

Hee! Digging up your complaint might be a little bit of a stretch, but I understand your frustration. Especially for someone so web-savvy. Good luck!

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

chrispalle — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:00:28 -0000

Fax machine? I think I heard about those... they plug into... what's that called again? Oh, yeah! A phone line. ;-)

Yeah, the new design is nice. Caught that the other day. Too bad about MyBlogLog forcing us to use that thing.... i need visual control over my widgets. Can't deal with it. </CSSSnobbery>

Update: Okay, sorry. Which is the new design? The MyBlogLog widget looks better with the white background.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

sanjaysub — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:11:02 -0000

You should be in India! They won't even answer telephone calls in some of the universities here!

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

StevenHodson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:41:50 -0000

doesn't it suck when the real world use of technology up and slaps you one :)

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

Tommy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:02:41 -0000

FERPA. That is all.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

fpettit — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:08:13 -0000

Yeah the new theme is really cool and really clean. Clean design is the best. I like the social stuff also. The round icons look very 2008.

Re: Social Media & The Web: 4 Tools I Wish My University Used

sarahintampa — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:59:48 -0000

Crazy how behind so much of the world still is - we forget when when we constantly live in our bubble. We're so progressive here, debating the differences between FriendFeed and Twitter and the like. Then you exit the bubble and people are like "Twit-a-whaaaa?"

Also: side note - you changed your theme! Sorry I didn't notice before, you know I live in RSS :) Love your social stuff at the top.