This week: Online Education and Degrees in Social Media

A look into education in 2013

by Lory Martinez

This is a classroom in 1950:

photo credit: “Leave it to Beaver”

Students are all attention. Not an ebook in sight.

This is a classroom in 2013:

photo credit: collegiatetimes.com

Students “diligently” taking notes during a lecture course.

The second image looks familiar doesn’t it?

As a college student, I know this picture far too well. It’s a 300-person class. Lectures are posted on Blackboard. Attendance isn’t taken. The logic is, you can afford to tune out, minimize a mostly blank word doc, and log into Facebook.

But here’s the thing. The student pictured above might actually be doing homework. On Facebook.

Being “social-media savvy” is becoming increasingly valuable to businesses trying to expand their clientbases.

As a result, colleges across the country are beginning to recognize that incorporating this marketable skill in a degree might be the ‘biggest thing since sliced-bread’.

Here’s one of a few programs we will be discussing on this week’s The Media Review

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Tune in at 4p.m. Wednesday for an much-anticipated discussion on Online Learning.

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• Bloxx’s eBook on Social Media in Education Helps Schools Set Social Media Policies to Enhance Online Safety (prweb.com)
• Preparing for a Communications Career: Thoughts From a Student (us.cision.com)
• Tips For Making An Impact On Social Media (stirringtrouble.wordpress.com)

An Interview with Cody Gohl on The Media Review on WHRW

 

One click publishing: The wave of the future?

by Lory Martinez

a SPECIAL edition of The Media Review in which I interviewed two Tumblr poets to get an inside look at the online literary world and its growing community. Tune in at 4 to hear it!

Full interviews will be posted later tonight!

Cody Gohl, a senior at Middlebury whose prose essays have been published on Thought Catalog and whose works have been quoted on the #codygohl tag on tumblr and at goodreads.com

Sam Riedel is a WHRW alum who graduated and moved to NYC to making it in the literary world. He freelances and works at a publishing company.  His book “The Shapeshifter” can be found at his tumblr page.You can find him on various sites, but all his stories are on contently.com 

Topics include: The Dead Poet’s Society, feedback, the possible metaphorical life-raft on which the future of poetry lies, Micropoetry, twitter poetry, English majors, future plans and advice for  other aspiring writers…

Special thanks to all those who helped edit these two interviews. Merci bien!

The world of online publishing

by Lory Martinez

As a huge fan Tao Lin’s Muummu House along with his tangible literary works ( including the upcoming release of his novel,Taipei) I always wondered just how he got to make himself so famous online. To the purists his work and other alternative works published online are unworthy of being dubbed literature because there are no pages to pour over, things to underline… I, like many others, have always loved having a good book on hand.

But there is something to be said for those online auteurs who make a name for themselves and eventually go on to publish actual books. Is the blogosphere a critical part of the way we encounter literature today? Should aspiring authors take a note from people like Tao Lin and take to the internets and publish all willy- nilly?Could Hemingway have a blog?

All these questions and more will be answered when we interview online poets Cody Gohl and Sam Reidel next week.Tune in on WHRW 90.5 FM Binghamton or whrwfm.org next wednesday at 4 pm!