What if everything you wrote was posted?
A teach Entrepreneurship part time - I love it - it keeps me connected. I've taught both here n Minnesota and in Germany last year to the MBA students at WHU near Koblenz. The experience taught me more than the students.
This spring I went to Eden Campus in South Africa, and helped get the students up and running with blogs. I often challenge my students to start blogging - it seems to me that they are all going to get "Googled" soon by prospective employers, dates and prospective in-laws. They might as well have a say it what people find.
People ask why I blog - is it a selfish, "I just want to be heard" syndrome? Probably a bit of that. but there is more. My wife blogs also, and though she has journal for years, she finds the art of posting a bit terrifying - that sharing your ideas with the rest of the world makes you think a bit more. The processes of sharing your ideas defines you to the world.
A full time professor at the local University and I were talking the other day, and we posed a question - what if every assignment, from every student in the entire university was blogged on the campus website?
Imagine if every paper and assignment was out there for the world to see on a blog. It was a sub domain of the University until you graduate, then you could post a copy on your own blog after that.
Of course, lots of negatives come up - plagiarisms,privacy issues, etc.
But think of the body of knowledge - imagine if each college had 10,000 papers a week being published to its site - that students had to live with these permanently on the web.
I know I would work harder as a student.
From an SEO standpoint, it would do wonders for the University website.
Picture two potential employees, both fresh out of college, both with similar resumes. One has an online example of 4-5 years of thoughts, ideas and scholarly work - the other doesn't - who do you hire?
Just a thought....
This spring I went to Eden Campus in South Africa, and helped get the students up and running with blogs. I often challenge my students to start blogging - it seems to me that they are all going to get "Googled" soon by prospective employers, dates and prospective in-laws. They might as well have a say it what people find.
People ask why I blog - is it a selfish, "I just want to be heard" syndrome? Probably a bit of that. but there is more. My wife blogs also, and though she has journal for years, she finds the art of posting a bit terrifying - that sharing your ideas with the rest of the world makes you think a bit more. The processes of sharing your ideas defines you to the world.
A full time professor at the local University and I were talking the other day, and we posed a question - what if every assignment, from every student in the entire university was blogged on the campus website?
Imagine if every paper and assignment was out there for the world to see on a blog. It was a sub domain of the University until you graduate, then you could post a copy on your own blog after that.
Of course, lots of negatives come up - plagiarisms,privacy issues, etc.
But think of the body of knowledge - imagine if each college had 10,000 papers a week being published to its site - that students had to live with these permanently on the web.
I know I would work harder as a student.
From an SEO standpoint, it would do wonders for the University website.
Picture two potential employees, both fresh out of college, both with similar resumes. One has an online example of 4-5 years of thoughts, ideas and scholarly work - the other doesn't - who do you hire?
Just a thought....
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