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?
