Meeting Rey was better than I ever could have imagined! I learned so much about Social Media, Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, his amazing research and so much more! I hope you learn as much as I did after watching the video replay above! Stay tuned for more exciting interviews in the coming months!
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A Live Video Interview with Rey Junco
Monday, July 12 from 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
Broadcasted over Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/student-affairs-3-0
Video Hashtag: #SA30
I’m pleased to announce that I will be sitting down with Rey Junco (@ReyJunco), Associate Professor in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling and the Director of Disability Service at Lock Haven University (PA) on TODAY at 4:00pm. Rey is someone who I have been following for a while on Twitter and when I heard he would be in the Boston area, I just had to meet him! I’m very excited that our schedules have worked out to make this happen!
We will be talking about how Rey uses quantitative methods to assess the effects of social media on student development, engagement, and success. We’ll also be talking about how Rey teaches technology impacts on colleges students, how to use Social Media in your Higher Education marketing efforts, etc. To learn more about Rey, please visit his blog. I hope you’ll join me for this exciting interview!
What questions do you have for @ReyJunco? Please leave them in the comment section and I’ll try to incorporate it during the interview!
#SACHAT BOSTON TWEETUP
After the interview is over, please join Rey and I for a summer Tweetup in the heart of Boston at John Harvard’s Brew House in Cambridge, MA! Details and RSVP information here!
Bio: Rey Junco is an Associate Professor and the Director of Disability Services in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lock Haven University. Rey Junco’s research focuses on using emerging social technologies to help engage and support college students. His books include Connecting to the Net.Generation: What higher education professionals need to know about today’s students and Using emerging technologies to help engage students. As part of the Net.Generation project, Dr. Junco conducted a large multi-institution survey of student technology use. The Using emerging technologies volume explored, in much more detail, research-based topics such as using social networking sites to help engage students, technology to improve student retention, using blogs to improve student’s writing and marketing skills, and how technology can both help and hurt student mental health.
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How does twitter tie into your work in Academic Development?
Thoughts on balancing social media connections with face-to-face connections?
How do you separate the wheat from the chaffe in technology-related discussions and venues? In other words, given the incredible amount of self-promotion always taking place in Twitter, blogs, and other places, how do know who is well-informed and who is simply looking for attention and fame?
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