This month’s BMPR is Thursday, Jan. 21 at noon, Holiday Inn Airport. Event is free, lunch buffet is $13. RSVP here: http://twtvite.com/3oe2ac
“A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.” ~ Anonymous
Is it me or did college campus libraries of the past have a covert relationships with local bars? When I was a student at Syracuse University in the late 1980s, research projects involved hiking across campus (and scaling a few snow mounds) to reach the library. The steps to actually enter the library, locate the topic in the card catalog (!), retrieve and check out the microfiche tape in the basement, and master the fickle footpedal on the viewing machine added up to a veritable all-day expedition. Flush with victory, I would run to the copy machine… only to find it whimpering, out of order. There was only one thing to do: Order a pitcher of beer at Chuck’s, the poor students’ favorite dank hangout. Could’ve sworn I saw the bartender slipping the librarian a $20.
These days, students don’t have to leave their beds to do research. Universities are not only wireless, they are using Facebook, Twitter, Skype to teach lessons, improve research and collaboration, and to market and advertise all their brainpower. At this month’s BMPR, we pick the brains of local educators. How are San Antonio universities, high schools and middle schools using social media in and out of the classroom? How are those efforts changing the way they do business with students, faculty, parents and the community? Our speakers:
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• Andi Narvaez: One of the co-founder’s of The BMPR, Andi is a PR professional with KGBTexas and a graduate student and TA at the University of Maryland. She’s teaching college students all about social media, all while being firmly entrenched in the global digital community.
• Luke Rosenberger: Director of library technology and historical collections at the UT Health Science Center, Rosenberger is helping the city’s medical center Twitter and Facebook about all it has to offer — to both students and the community at large.
• Patricia Constantin and Dr. Kimberley Barnett Gibson: Patricia is the news and sports information officer at Our Lady of the Lake University, which is livestreaming its athletic events so that faraway family members can watch their student athletes. Kimberly is OLLU’s instructional designer and digital media evangelist.
• Joyce Stevens: Director of Academic Technology for the Northside Independent School District, Joyce will school us on all the social media (radio, blogs, vlogs, wikis, and more) today’s students are using in the classroom. The district is running pilot tests on using Twitter to communicate with parents and the community.
As always, BMPR is open to anyone wishing to learn about social media — come with an open mind and a happy heart. Contact me @writontime or any of my BMPR compadres for more information: @andinarvaez @nanpalmero @seanmichaelwood @jessyoung13 @joeruiz
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The presentors sound great! I’m interested in what they share with us.
Are any of them attending South by Southwest this year? The ‘Interactive’ session is largely dedicated to social media. Are the encouraging students to attend?
See you tomorrow!
Very enlightening #BMPR today! It was amazing listening to how social media tools were being integrated into today’s learning environment, and not just for the class room – even at the high school level! Good to see that those in education are grasping these tools and utilizing them so well. I’m jealous I didn’t have these saturation when I was in school!
Oh, and a shout to my #gogorowdytable peeps!
And, apologies to @hoidayinnsa for leaving rubber bands everywhere.
Not to be the stereotypical librarian, but in the interest of proper attribution:
The quote at the beginning of this post was originally from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, in Chapter XI of _The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table_ (1858): “Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it.”
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/7/4/28747/28747-h/files/aofbt10h.htm
I must say that #BMPR on Thursday was 90 minutes of absolute mind-stretch — the rubber bands are actually a great metaphor. Thanks for the invitation and I look forward to future #BMPRs!
Luke,
We were so thrilled you could be with us at BMPR. UT Health Science Center’s Library is making great headway with social media. And I appreciate so much the corrected information on the anonymous quote.
I’m glad you liked the BMPR energy. It was an extra-silly crowd this month, so I hope that wasn’t too distracting. We might have to ask everyone to settle down during the few minutes that each speaker is talking. BMPR is a work-in-progress — but the main goal — of sharing knowledge — seems to be taking place.
Hope to see you next month!
Donna