Creatively Integrating Social Media Experiences  for Collaboration

Focusing on:    Google Glass and Twitter

Wearable Technology has an EYE on its Academic  Future! 

Creating new Collaborations in the Exploration of Arts and Sciences!

Follow Us on Twitter 

@roxannriskin     @FairfieldCIO

Innovative Pedagogy & Course Redesign Conference  

Fairfield University     May 30, 2014

COLLABORATIONS  for Empowerment and Learning

Roxann Riskin, Google Glass Explorer, Fairfield University's Technologist and
Fairfield University's CIO, Paige Francis 

 Co-Lead a Round Table Discussion
on Creative Engagements with Google Glass and Twitter 
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College Students & The Wearables
 in Higher Education

THE FUTURE IS NOW: SEPTEMBER 2014

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Three Academic Scenarios

SCIENCE with GLASS

Insightful  Uses for Medical Collaborations 

• Dr. Paul Szotek- Surgeon
• UC Irvine- Professors POV Recordings of medical procedures 

ART with GLASS

Bard Graduate College -Creative Museum Experience with Glass

• Waterweavers:  Viewing  Creatives in Art using  the GLASS Augmented Reality-Museum Docent App

JOURNALISM

Creative Writing  and Journalism

•  Visualizing A Tiny Twitter Story in 140 Tweets!   Spotlight on: The Twitter Fiction Festival 

• USC- Professor Richard Hernandez -Journalism using Glass

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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Social Media-Mobile Profile

 

 studentPoll is published by Art & Science Group, LLC. Published September 2013

Copyright © 2013 Art & Science Group, LLC.

 Subgroup Findings:

• Students from high-income families (39%) — those with family incomes of greater than $100K — are more likely to visit Twitter than students from lower-income families (28%) — those with family incomes of less than $60K.
• African American (26%), Hispanic (21%), and Asian students (19%) are more likely to use Google+ compared to Caucasian students (10%).
• Students with the highest SAT scores (84%) — those with SAT scores of 1300 or above — are more likely to report they use Facebook than students with the lowest SAT scores (73%) — those with SA

Social media is being utilized 

increasingly

 during the college search 

process...

 (studentPOLL).

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About three in four (74%) teens ages 12-17 

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access the internet on cell phones, tablets, and other mobile devices at least occasionally. (PEW)http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/03/13/teens-and-technology-2013/

http://www.thelawlorgroup.com/trends2014

College Students and Social Media 2014

44% of college-bound high school students 

reported using social networking sites to 

gather impressions and information about 

colleges, and 

50 % of them it had an effect on their 

decisions about where to apply to college