calling all PR students & educators in the south
Update Feb. 11., 2008 at 7:46 p.m.: opps! got registration wrong – $25 for students
Update Feb. 11, 2008 at 11:04 a.m.: read the press release
UGA & the major PR firm, Edelman, are hosting the Edelman Digital Bootcamp for PR students & educators in the Southeast on March 1.
Mark your calendars! Book your hotel room! Register! … and get ready for an amazing hands-on experience.
The purpose of this event is to provide hands-on instruction of how to properly use social media in PR campaigns. We want folks from all over the South to come, so if you are in a 5-hour radius to Athens then you should definitely plan on coming!
- event is March 1 at the University of Georgia Student Learning Center
- registration for students is $25
- all PR students from any university are welcome to attend
- students to be broken up into teams & work through a campaign client scenario to find the best social media solution
- special track for educators will help attendees work through creating social media-themed assignments for traditional PR classes
- rooms are blocked at the nearby Holiday Inn on Broad St.
- Contact Cindy Schnably (e-mail: schnably@uga.edu) for more info
Registration is limited, so you are interested in this one-day event then be sure to contact Cindy ASAP. Then ….. I’ll see you in Athens on March 1!
Hi Kaye,
What do you have planned (and what’s the fee)for educators?
I don’t have the info on the price with me right now, but I’ll put it on the blog when I get it.
I know the educator’s fee will be more than the students pay because the educators are going to get more materials (like learning objectives etc for creating SM assignments in a traditional class).
I hope you come to the bootcamp! It’s as UN-conference as you can get! And bring lots of students!
As for what we have planned …
Edelman is sending down a team of folks from several of their offices. We’ll break students up into team (based on experiences, home institution, etc) then those teams will go through a mock campaign for a client assigned that day. The will research, design, discuss implementation all one-on-one within the small groups then come together at the end to discuss best practices.
Educators will have a chance to observe this & participate in the highlights, but there will be a separate track for educators which focuses on ideas & providing tools for infusing a little social media into the core PR classes we all teach. Educators will go home with a battery of resources, including learning objectives/rubrics/assignment handouts/lesson plans (whatever you want to call it – it will be plug & play).
Thanks so much!
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