Through Others' Eyes

bernie
Originally uploaded by the boy who loved the moon

THIS IS THE FIRST semester I've started ego alerts because it's one of the ways I've discovered some of the most difficult students to locate. We have an effective e-learning system powered by Moodle, an easy-peasy LDAP log-in screen to avail a dashboard to students, free wifi through the campus and good craic in smoking corners and blue couches. But there remains 10% of students who are difficult to contact because of one snag or another. It's handy to look for myself and discover people who have viable online identities on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr with avenues I can use to contact them. I'm doing that on Flickr and Facebook now by internal mail s systems on those sites. With future classes, I'm going to make new students talk about me by name on social networks because it's now proving to be one of the most reliable ways of welcoming people into creative multimedia spaces.

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