Five tips to clean up your social media presence and impress future employers

Posted on: April 11, 2013 | By: Casey Brown | Filed under: Info Security, Social Media
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With the end of the semester drawing nearer, jobs and internships are on students’ brains. Today, more employers than ever are using social media to find and recruit potential employees and are even using social media sites to recruit you as future employees. In the case that your future employer is looking at your social media pages during the hiring process, here are some tips to ensure you’re presenting your best self on the Internet.

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Getting started with Google+

Posted on: November 28, 2012 | By: Sam Parker | Filed under: Instructional Technologies

Are you looking for a way to virtually meet and share links, videos and resources with your students? You may want to consider Google+. Overview Google’s social media tool offers unique collaboration and control features that make it very appealing to instructors in higher education. It also works well with Google’s other applications like Google Drive and …

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UPDATE: Easily add current, course-relevant news to your Moodle courses

Posted on: September 6, 2012 | By: Dan Reis | Filed under: Instructional Technologies, Moodle, Teaching & Learning
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Ideas for using Twitter in higher education are easy to find. One simple way to use Twitter is to embed a widget into your Moodle course. Embedding Twitter into Moodle is an easy way to add current, course-relevant news and opinions to your course.

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