I'm excited to beginning the journey for my Multimedia Montage Project (MMP). The work that I do is as a Higher Education administrator. A significant responsibility that I have is to serve on and chair search and selection committees for the University. This ranges from hiring entry level Student Affairs Professionals (i.e. Advisors, Residence Hall Directors, Student Activities Coordinators, etc) to senior level positions such as Vice Presidents of Student Affairs to presidential candidates.
In the area of Student Affairs, the departments of Residence Life (dorms/residence halls) and Student Life have the highest turn over. These positions are typically entry level and have turn around times of 2-3 years on average. To this end, on a yearly basis these departments are hiring new staff members. Subsequently, there is a need to provide resources and best practices for these Student Affairs professionals in an effort to aid in their efforts.
This is where my MMP comes in! I would like to create 'Online Community Awareness' (via a website) that promotes the best practices and provides resources and support for the selection of professional staff within Residence Life and Student Life.
In an effort to support my venture and creation of this website, I will be an active member of two communities to get ideas from and get feedback on my project. The first is the course Thinkfinity community. While I know that the general expectation is that we join two Thinkfinity groups, it's my hope to join another community outside of Thinkfinity (workforce.com), as Thinkfinity is targeted towards K-12 education. Since all of my efforts and professional experience are within Higher Education, I think it would be more advantageous for me to be a part of the Workforce.com community. In this community, it mobilizes Human Resources professionals and provides a medium for them to engage each other in conversation and the sharing of best practices. A likely forum for me to be active in within this large Workforce.com community is the 'Staffing and Hiring' subgroup.
I am excited to be a part of both of these communities and believe they will serve as great resources in the design of my MMP. The course Thinkfinity group will challenge me to think with regards to education and the content we are learning in this course. The Workforce.com community will challenge me to think outside of the educational sphere and look at business practices. I am excited to be able to fuse the feedback and ideas from these two communities into my MMP project.
Thanks for reading! More to come...
Steve T.
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