Using Our Site

Video: "Blogs in Plain English" by CommonCraft. (2:58)

Blogs

What’s a blog?

Watch the “Blogs in Plain English“ video by CommonCraft.

They’ll walk you through how news broadcasting has changed from the 20th century into blogging in the 21st century.

Calendar Display: Click the down arrow at the top right of the calendar.

Calendar

The College of Business calendar is comprised of several calendars. You can see a color-coded list of them in the image on the right.

All of the calendars’ events are automatically displayed.

To display only the calendar(s) you want to see go to the Calendar, News & Blogs page, click the down arrow at the top right of the College calendar and un-check the calendar(s) you don’t want to see.

Find/Search

Instructions on how to find words in a webpage or PDF, find colleagues/professors, and specific “how to” instructions from Google’s help pages for refining a search.

What is Subscribing and RSS?

RSS (really simple syndication) is the web technology that lets you subscribe to a website like you might subscribe to a newspaper.

If you subscribe while on our website, you will receive automatic updates of the News items from our Calendar, News & Blogs page.

How do I Subscribe to your News?

Subscribe while on our website by going to Add to Any and selecting your preferred method of receiving news updates. Simply click on the service you want to use and follow the instructions.

When in doubt, selecting E-mail will deliver College of Business News updates directly to the email address you provide.

Follow Us on Twitter

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a free social networking/micro-blogging service. When you have a Twitter account, you can send “tweets” (up to 140 characters of text) to your Twitter profile page. Your tweet is delivered to your subscribers (followers).

It’s a tool for real-time quick messaging, forwarding news, marketing your business, sending a link, and social networking.

How do I Follow the College on Twitter?

If you Follow Us, you will receive automatic updates of the News items on our Calendar, News & Blogs page.

The College of Business is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nmsucob. If you don’t have a Twitter account, you should still be able to see one of the college’s tweets; however, this is not “following”.

If you want to Follow Us, you’ll need to sign up for a Twitter account at http://twitter.com. Twitter has a video (3:51 minutes) at http://help.twitter.com/home that explains how Twitter works and how to create and use a Twitter account.

Can I Tweet with a Class?

Thank you Pookie Sautter for bringing up and pursuing this example: You’re an instructor with 300 students in your class. How do they ask you a question?

What you do

You set up a Twitter account and name it something relevant. We’re using AskBlinky as the Twitter account in this example.
Tell the class your username (e.g., AskBlinky).
During class, you login to your AskBlinky page.
Students tweet a question to @AskBlinky using cell phones, laptops, PDAs, iPhones, etc.
On your AskBlinky page, you click on the link @AskBlinky.
It takes you to a page named “Tweets mentioning @AskBlinky”.
You read your students’ questions and answer them.

What your students do

They have to have a Twitter account.
If they tweet you through a device other than a computer (e.g., a cell phone), they will need to go to their Twitter account → Settings → Devices and add the device.
They don’t have to “follow” you on Twitter.

Things everyone needs to know

Your Twitter account can be used for future classes. Just let your new students know the UserName.
Sometimes Twitter goes down because everyone in the galaxy uses it and it gets overloaded.
Student questions will need to be within Twitter’s 140-character limit.

Videos

YouTube

College of Business videos are on YouTube at http://youtube.com/nmsubusinesscollege.
NMSU videos are on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/newmexicostateu .

Subscribe to our YouTube Videos

Subscribe to our YouTube Feed (RSS) at http://youtube.com/ut_rss?type=username&arg=nmsubusinesscollege.

You can also go to our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/nmsubusinesscollege and click the Subscribe button.

TeacherTube

TeacherTube is very similar to the YouTube model with one difference: Submitted video content must have a learning objective.

To see NMSU TeacherTube clips, go to http://www.teachertube.com/, select Channels, then select College and University. Type “NMSU” into the search field.

You will see the Videos list for NMSU.

MediaSite Demo

Jan. 8, 2010: In a how-to, question-and-answer demo, Dr. Pookie Sautter shows how to use NMSU’s MediaSite facilities in O’Donnell Hall, room 111. ICT Video Services’ MediaSite is an application for recording and archiving classroom lectures. Other video services include video conferencing, media conversion, webcast/streaming video and Internet data streaming, and webcast/streaming video archives. Video Services website: http://video.nmsu.edu. More info: Contact Classroom Technology at 575.646.2360. Video Services coordinator: Francisco Martinez, 575.646.8200, martifra@nmsu.edu.

iTunes U & Podcasts

Visit apple.com to download this free media program.

Hosted (by Apple) service for colleges and universities, iTunes University (iTunes U) is web-based, free and delivers instructional content via the iTunes program. Instructors can create content for a course by recording lectures, developing assignments, and creating videos and podcasts.

iTunes U provides easy access 24/7 to educational content including lectures and interviews. Download content to Macs or PCs, listen to and view the content, or transfer it to an iPod for listening or viewing on the go.

NMSU has FAQ’s for Everyone about iTunes U and podcasting, log-in instructions, how to request an iTunes U course and other how-to’s, contacts, resources, workshops, etc.

Visit NMSU on iTunes U to log in, view NMSU’s podcasts, visit Apple iStore, etc.

NMSU podcasts are stored at iTunes U. Podcasts are more for serial presentations. Podcasting provides a convenient, subscription-based model for distributing course content. Podcasting makes your course content mobile and allows your students to subscribe to the course and have the content automatically downloaded as soon as it is made available.

Podcasts can be converted to .mov to put on YouTube. They are not archived or saved, so save and maintain backups of your podcasts where you can get to them.