Edward Waters College Professor and Student Attends WordPress 2016
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Posted By: William Jackson on November 23, 2016 Edward Waters College Professor and Student Attends WordPress 2016 by Prof. William Jackson and Joshua Rodriquez, student Edward Waters College @wmjackson HBCU students are learning that the content they create is valuable in the career directions they are taking. Facebook, Twitter, SnapChat, LinkedIn and other Social Media platforms can be used to enhance their Brand beyond just being a student, it can enhance their visibility as an innovator, smart creative, developing leader in the ever changing tech industry and a potential rising star in intellectual exchange. Joshua Rodriquez a student majoring in Biology and a new user of #WordPress has learned as a first time participant at the #WordCamp 2016 conference at the University of Central Florida, the importance of writing / blogging. Josh is a junior attending Edward Waters College and has aspirations of medical school and blogging about his experiences and journey. I’m a veteran of WordPress attending WordCamp, each year I learn something that I can apply to personally and professionally as a teacher, blogger and business owner. On the teaching side it is required that my students taking Educational Technology and Social Media class blog each week about what is passionate and interesting to them. Allowing my students to develop WordPress sites encourages students to read, build comprehension skills and share on a digital and literary platform their growing knowledge and understanding how to apply technology intellectually towards their career interests. Building future technology professionals HBCU students need to be able to write, share content and information on a professional level that is required in many professions. Just as important is the ability to comprehend what is read and be able to apply what is read to achieve the goals and missions of their careers. Many businesses claim that students from many institutions are not competent writers and even lack comprehension skills gained from reading. Being an educator on the elementary level I see the importance of students, especially students of color strengthen their abilities in reading and comprehension. HBCU students even after graduating need to continue to read and engage in diverse literary genres. Today’s students at all levels before higher education must be taught early the relevancy and importance of writing and sharing their story. WordPress is dynamic and increases the E-learning curve making writing fun and teaching how to apply writing skills to real life application. Joshua and I had the opportunity to help elementary students at the conference to develop a web presence, sharing our knowledge and skills, seeing the youth’s growth in content development and application. Students attending HBCUs gain their voice through reading diverse literature, this voice should be enhanced by the growing ability to comprehend what is read and how to apply what is read to real life. More HBCU students should attend conferences like WordCamp, BarCamp, EdCamp, and EdCampNABSE. Students like Mr. Rodriquez are the growing leadership that is needed to assist African Americans to increase the only 2% that own technology companies. In order for HBCU students to expand beyond traditional career roles and enter into entrepreneurship roles, management, and startups they must be involved in interactive roles. Roles to be engaged in video blogging, podcasting, microblogging and creation of Apps and the area of virtual reality. “I would like HBCU students to understand they are the authors of their story, they are authentic, they are unique and they are eternal in the stories they provide.” William Jackson Reading is vital to building language and intellectualism, "books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head." Jasper Fforde Never doubt the necessity to read and comprehend what you read. Video of Mr. Rodriquez https://youtu.be/0jdPakqSh5o Resources: WordCamp Central http://central.wordcamp.org/ WordPress https://wordpress.com/ EdCampNABSE https://twitter.com/EdcampNABSE NABSE https://spark.adobe.com/page/TcID6BRLHlupl... William Jackson My Quest To Teach http://MyQuestToTeach.Wordpress.com Educational Technology and Social Media at Edward Waters College http://ewceducationaltechnology.wordpress.... If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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William Jackson
Educational Technology and Social Media Instructor, Edward Waters College South Carolina State University class of 1985 Member Since September 2008 |
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