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Encouraging Social Networking with non-traditional students

Encouraging Social Networking with non-traditional students-Stephan Brady

March 29, 2008 - 9:33am — axg251
emerging technologies
social networks

"Are you Hip to that Beat?" - informal session title.

Definition: "What is a non-traditional student?" Stereotypes: army ("hard-working"); executive ("task task task"); mom/parent returning to school; factory working who went straight to work after high school. Non-traditional students go back to school for themselves (goals) as opposed to traditional students who go in large part because of culture. (acknowledged as a generalization)

Point: The point was that non-traditional students may have very different drivers for social networking. If each non-traditional student is coming to this with different goals, what pulls them together: music, youtube, google mashup, google docs. "How do I mashup the vet, executive, mom, and blue collar worker with jing, google docs, youtube, etc.?"

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