Project: Championing Social Media Practice through Student/Academic Partnerships at @UWSInteractive
I’m really pleased that I’ve been able to announced several opportunities through two different, but very connected projects that I am part of at the University of the West of Scotland. The first is the opportunity to recruit current UWS students as social media student champions to work alongside academics and support staff to deliver social media surgeries during the UWS Interactive Festival that I am curating in May. Details of this are available on the UWS Interactive website. The deadline is this friday (24th Feb) The second is part of a bigger project called #citizenrelay, that is part of …
Workshop: @UWSDigital Social Media Masterclass at Bournemouth University
Introduction On Thursday and Friday of last week (16th and 17th of February) David McGillivray and I were invited to Bournemouth University, School of Tourism to deliver a full day workshop around social media and higher education for their staff and students in the department. The day was split between a two hour workshop designed to demystify some of the risks and opportunities of social media in the university environment through a (short) presentation of some conceptual ideas about online identity and talking through some examples of projects and websites that we have recently used at UWSCreative. This was quite …