Group Interviews with PR Educators - Part Two
Posted by Administrator on September 23rd, 2005
By Robert French, Auburn University | infOpinions?
EDITORS’ CHOICE | Education for the New PR
Podcast with Andrew Corcoran, Lincoln University (UK) and Thomas Pleil, Darmstadt University (Germany). Time: 30:11. This is the second part of my post from yesterday.
Topics: Using blogs in the PR classroom; application for students in professional life.
Podcast: These podcasts flow from an email Q&A conducted with the following public relations educators. Download the text file of their written responses to questions on these and other topics here.
Participants:
- Richard Bailey, Leeds, UK - Leeds Metropolitan University
- Andrew Corcoran - Lincoln, UK - University of Lincoln
- Tom Kelleher, Chapel Hill, NC - University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Thomas Pleil, Germany, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
- Phillip Young, Sunderland, UK - Sunderland University
- Robert French, Auburn, AL USA, - Auburn University - Moderator
Download the audio file (mp3, 27.6 MB) or sign up for the podcast’s RSS feed to get the future podcasts automatically.
Today’s Show Notes:
- 00:00 Intro
- 01:39 Blogs in the classroom and student blogs
- 03:39 Educator interaction with students via blog and itneraction with PR practitioners via blog
- 05:20 Blogs as a tactic for writing exercises
- 07:17 How to successfully engage students in blogging and ease their apprehension
- 08:55 Time requirements by educators in preparing and maintaining the blogs
- 09:49 Group blogs versus individual blogs for students
- 10:15 Public blogs versus password protected blogs/private blogs for students
- 11:14 Projecting how blogging exercises in the classroom may benefit students as they enter the workforce
- 12:55 Are the skills leading to job placements
- 13:26 Writing styles for blogs
- 15:39 Reports from students experiencing blogs in the workplace post-graduation
- 18:44 Blog adoption in Europe (UK and Germany)
- 21:13 Student use of blogs and technology (social media) outside of class activities
- 23:58 RSS - use in the classroom and how to explain it to students and illustrate the use of RSS
- 28:33 Final comments … research interests of both participants