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Events: 2012 Business Administration Schedule
Business Administration Summary
Friday, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
"Teaching with Social Media"
Speaker: Gemmy Allen, Professor of Management & Marketing, North Lake College
Saturday, 10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
"Teaching Four Generations"
Speaker: Gemmy Allen, Professor of Management & Marketing, North Lake College
Friday, March 2nd, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
"Teaching with Social Media"
Speaker: Gemmy Allen, Professor of Management & Marketing, North Lake College
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube show the power of Web 2.0—social network sites, blogs, wikis, virtual worlds, and other social Internet applications and tools—to attract attention, but many wonder if it’s educational. Recent research shows that 80 % of faculty use social media for some aspect of a course they are teaching. Discover how you can employ the new Internet tools to strengthen your online and in-classroom presentation initiatives.
Attend this presentation and learn to:
- Engage in conversation with a blog
- Stay connected with Facebook
- Harness the Twitter backchannel
- Effectively distribute your PowerPoint content online
- And much more . . .
Biography:
Gemmy Allen started using the Internet in 1992 and offered her first online class in 1995. Presently, she teaches at North Lake College of the Dallas County Community College District. Before teaching at North Lake, she taught at Mountain View College. Her awards include being named Outstanding Mountain View College Faculty Member and receiving the Golden Oak Award, Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce; the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence in Teaching Award; and the awards for North Lake College and Mountain View College Innovator of the Year.
She has served as a member of Microsoft Mentors, the Microsoft/Compaq College Advisory Council and is one of the founding teachers with the Virtual College of Texas — “Internet Teachers at Every College.”
Gemmy is the co-author of the textbook Management: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations, published by Cengage. In addition, she has co-authored several discipline-specific, Internet-related books and has developed several online classes. Her online Management course is Quality Matters recognized. She has made numerous presentations to industry and has led workshops in the United States, Australia and Mexico.
She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Texas, where she completed all but the dissertation for a doctorate.
You can read her blog, Management Minutes, at www.gemmyallen.com, like her book on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ManagementText and follow her on Twitter at MgtMin.
Saturday, March 3rd, 10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
"Teaching Four Generations"
Speaker: Gemmy Allen, Professor of Management & Marketing, North Lake College
It is challenging to teach the traditional student, but it is even more challenging to teach the non-traditional student. The situation gets even more complicated as college professors find themselves teaching four generations. This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations sitting side-by-side in the classroom.
- Silents (Born between 1925 and 1946)
- Baby Boomers (Born between 1946 and 1964)
- Generation Xers (Born between 1965 and 1980)
- Generation Ys or Millennials (born after 1980)
Each generation varies with different values, ideas, and ways of communicating. Millenials, teens and twenty-somethings, are the newest generation entering college. Attend this presentation and find out how you compare with Millenials and other generations.
Business Administration Section Chair:
Sylvia Brown, Midland College