Video WON’T kill the lecturing star
My network was buzzing today in reaction to Jonathan Wolff’s monthly column in the Guardian. In this month’s column Wolff, professor of philosophy at University College London, compares his experiences of in person and video recorded lecture delivery and asks rhetorically whether lecturing styles are bound to change in the future now that more and more lectures … Read more
Social Media in the Classroom, Social Media Tools For Research
The middle of November was a busy and workshop-rich week for me. After a workshop on social media strategy and policy delivered at the UWS Library and a lecture on social media to support an acting career given to Stuart Hepburn‘s contemporary screen acting students, I also delivered with the great help and support of … Read more
Social Media for an acting career start-up
On the 16th of November I was invited by Stuart Hepburn, one of Scotland’s top scriptwriters and one of UWS’ Creative and Cultural Industries beloved Lecturer in Performance & Creative Screenwriting, to join his contemporary screen acting students for a day and talk to and with them about using social media to boost their careers. My … Read more
Social Media for University Libraries
The library isn’t the first place one would expect to use social media. On the contrary, some perhaps would ask why would an institutions who is in the business of collecting written/printed words would be interested in anything that is online and most of all that is social and in the cloud? But libraries nowadays … Read more
