Over the past week I’ve been working on a few mid term
projects, which is why my posts have been a bit slim. However, I just completed
one project for my social media class, that reminded me of another that I thought
I’d share with everyone. Plus, since it’s Spring Break, I figured let’s post a fun
project for people to use that could be a great tool in encouraging the holistic all campus experience.
It was the summer of 2009, and I was just coming into the
office for the day. I was in a chipper mood, the sun was out and I had just
seen a great movie the night before called “Bucket List”. If you haven’t seen
it before, you definitely should. Anyway, I was sitting around, checking my
email and had one of those “Huh…that’d be cool” moments. I had thought, what if
there was a university bucket list; things to do before you graduate. So I
jumped onto Google and began perusing. Finally I found an institution with a
101 List To Do Before You Graduate. It was a thorough list of items to do on
campus at the university. Well, I took the concept of the 101 List and built
upon it. Identifying key places, departments, community events and businesses
for our students as well as reviewing comments made by our residential students
about living in the downtown area and
created a 10 page list of items to do at our campus. It was actually quite difficult
to narrow it down. There was so much to do and experience at our university.
But after several weeks, all suggestions were whittled down to the 101 Things
to Do Before You Graduate. It was a big hit the first two years. In the third
year, I collaborated with our University Relations Social Media expert and we
put it on FourSquare. Any item with a physical location was put as a tip for
that location, and all the tips were listed on a FourSquare List. It was a work in progress, and unfortunately I
left before we could really launch the online portion of the project. However,
using a social media platform for the list was something that we were excited
to try.
I’m hoping that some of you, my Student Affairs colleagues, may be able to try it on your own individual campuses, and let me know how it
worked and what you did to make it even better. J
No major thoughts today, but rather a step towards collaborative
effort to create new programs. J
Plus coming off from ACPA this week, the creative and collaborative energy is at
an all time high.
Enjoy! And let the creative juices flow!!
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