In my Psychology of Advertising class, John Eighmey is meshing social media and teaching through his new blog and twitter account. In my opinion, this is the new age of education. It's easy for students to follow curriculum (um are we seriously still using WebCT?) and even interact outside of class. Not all of us like to speak up in a huge lecture and, having an online forum would facilitate discussion among the entire class.
Forget just interacting with your class, why not the whole advertising community at the J-school? I know some of the Yaybies would have loved to take a class with John Eighmey but couldn't because of scheduling. They now have a chance to hear his thoughts on creativity and the industry through his blog. We've got so many brilliant minds at our J-school, I'd love it if all the profs started creating blogs. Would you follow them?
8 comments:
psych of ad with Eighmey, LUCKY!
Yay, more blogs to follow!
That's a good tip for a blog to subscribe to - I love consumer psychology blogs, so thank you!
Wish I had Eighmey when I was in school. Also wish I never experienced WebCT...
Yeah... I stumbled upon Eighmey's blog this morning since he updated his Twitter/Facebook status that he had blogged on a cool new ad. I love John Eighmey. He is a fabulous teacher and I am SOOOOO jealous that he's teaching Psych of Ad now.
Blogging/tweeting profs = genius.
ohmigod. I LOVE Eighmey and I love the thought of being able to follow him and others profs online.
For those who want Eighmey but can't, try my route: I chose him as my honors thesis advisor, and I'm sure you could chose him for an independent study.
my cassettes seem rather quaint all of a sudden
I took that class with him 4 years ago and it's crazy to see how much things have evolved in the online and social media landscape in just that short time since. Awesome!
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