Have you heard of facebook.com? That networking phenomenon that's sweeping the nation? 8.5 million high school and college students are registered members in the online community. It looks like facebook is going to join blogging, podcasts and rss feeds as another area of electronic communication that is used by students and should be utilized by higher education professionals. It's a networking tool that
22 years later and I will finally see U2....My friends and I were all set to see U2 at RIT in 1983, as high school juniors at Fairport High. But we couldn't get a car on a weeknight. So we missed the up-and-coming band, which was on its second leg of the War Tour. U2 played at RIT for $5, yes $5, on
Today I typed press releases and articles to inform the community of news and events. And today I blogged. I typed information for the community about news and events. There's an event coming up that will examine what I am doing this very second. Sure, I'm blogging. But am I reporting? Is this journalism? And does that mean anyone can be a journalist?
Campus is quiet the last day of exam week. Patches of ice frost the ground as I walk back to the office after a morning meeting. As I'm walking, I overhear snippets of conversations as students dart from one building to the next. You can tell this is a technology school and that there are exams going on, I think. Here's a few
This week, our roving News & Web Specialist (that's me, Silandara) is at the HighEdWebDev conference, conveniently located at the RIT Inn and Conference Center, just down the road from the RIT campus. This year's conference is better than the last, with more topics relevant to what we're dealing and grappling with in University News. Finally, we're talking about blogs and podcasting and