For my midterm ethnography video project, I want to “research” and find out more about how a club that is a big part of my life uses media to promote itself and execute everyday activities and tasks. This year I am Sophomore Advisor to first year students at Emory living in the residence hall with them. My job along with the other Sophomore and Resident Advisors in my building to plan programs (activities and events) that promote cultural, social, and intellectual diversity among the hall and the student population at Emory and moreover any other community they consider themselves a part of. I want to interview some student leaders within Emory’s Residence Life and Housing community i.e. the Sophomore Advisors and Resident Advisors in my residence hall as well as the several other residence halls available to students at Emory. I also want to connect with some of the professional staff members and show the differences and similarities for how and why they use media and social networking to promote ResLife at Emory and also to incorporate into the programs and everyday activities. I wish to explore any challenges that they have experienced in using and making media for this organization. Another interesting angle to approach is how the students living within these halls see the successes/failures of ResLife using media and how they have used it to connect with their hall mates and the activities that go on within the halls.
Today about 60% of educators and administrators have begun using social media as a tool of engagement both in the classroom and in their professional lives. They encourage interaction among students and the media that they are already active in throughout the day via youtube videos for supplemental learning, webinars and podcasts, and entering the growing world of blogging to express his our her ideas openly to the global cyber community. With this digital education, children and adolescents are learning to break social barriers that many adults today continue to struggle with and thus hinder their successes in life. Even though technological and digital education is still in its experimental stages, the youth seem to be thriving more than ever and at younger and younger ages. With earlier exposure to the online community, the youth of today are able to give feedback and find ways to improve the digital world in ways that do not occur to the adult population. It is important that we continue to find new ways to engage students both within the classroom as well as in their everyday lives in this participatory education
Today about 60% of educators and administrators have begun using social media as a tool of engagement both in the classroom and in their professional lives. They encourage interaction among students and the media that they are already active in throughout the day via youtube videos for supplemental learning, webinars and podcasts, and entering the growing world of blogging to express his our her ideas openly to the global cyber community. With this digital education, children and adolescents are learning to break social barriers that many adults today continue to struggle with and thus hinder their successes in life. Even though technological and digital education is still in its experimental stages, the youth seem to be thriving more than ever and at younger and younger ages. With earlier exposure to the online community, the youth of today are able to give feedback and find ways to improve the digital world in ways that do not occur to the adult population. It is important that we continue to find new ways to engage students both within the classroom as well as in their everyday lives in this participatory education