Social Media Club — Today, we are launching a new project to bring together the education and professional communities to further the development of social media curriculum in our schools. The #SMCEDU project seeks to ensure that graduates from every college/university are media literate and are able to competently understand and apply the emerging lessons from social media in organizations.
We will support existing social media education efforts such as PR Open Mic, Classroom 2.0 and others while also seeking to coordinate efforts with school administrators and local professionals.
Key to our success will be connecting the local Social Media Club groups more closely with their local universities to co-create a combination of mentoring programs, internships, professional development opportunities and a repository of Creative Commons licensed Social Media curriculum. As such, we are seeking local Social Media Club chapters with existing professors and ties to local schools to join our efforts to create some pilot programs. If that is you, please join our working group or at least join the SMCEDU Ning site we created for the project… Continue reading
