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Going Beyond the Hype at the Northern Voice Blogger Conference

Posted on | May 3, 2010 | No Comments

How cool is this? I’ll be a moderator for Beyond the Hype: Teaching About Social Media and Teaching Using Social Media, a speakers panel at the Northern Voice blogger conference in Vancouver.

It’s happening at 1:15 pm on Friday, May 7 at the Life Sciences building on the UBC main campus. Here’s a description of the panel:

A plethora of self-appointed social media consultants have emerged in the past two years. It would seem as though knowing how to set up a Twitter account or creating a Facebook page has become this decade’s snake oil. Despite (or perhaps due to) the fact that social media is an ever-evolving field, there is still a dearth of best practices on what and how to teach about social media. Even more frightening, interesting and challenging, there is a whole field that has just barely recently begun to be explored: teaching with social media. In this panel, we will share our experiences in the educational field, both teaching about social media and teaching with social media.

We will share our concerns, questions and worries about social media as a field to be educated in and as a platform/tool to educate in other fields. We will ask the tough questions that need to be asked, and hope that through this exploration, we will be able to further both social media as a field of study and as a technological tool for educational purposes.

The panel will include:

  • Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega (otherwise known as Hummingbird604)
  • Dr. Glen Lowry, writer, educator, and editor
  • Tris Hussey (MscM.S.) a long-time technologist, blogger, and writer
  • Andre Malan, a Computer Science student at the University of British Columbia specializing in human-computer interaction

Tell your friends! Tell your mom! I’m sure it will be an informative and entertaining panel that will fill you with love of all things social media-ish.

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