The MKA Irish Studies program is happy to be working with the Irish Fireside Blog and Podcast to help promote Irish history, culture and travel.
Irish Studies will have student bloggers posting content to the Fireside prior to, during and shortly after the trip.
We look forward to working with them and helping to add to the [...]
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If imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Posted in Education, Program, Social Media on Mar 10th, 2010
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then I want to thank the Winsor School. They are using the Irish Studies model of their student’s trip to India this March and have emailed to let us know that they were their example of how to do it!
I want to wish them the best [...]
Irish Studies featured in Tech&Learning Magazine
Posted in Program, Social Media on Jan 17th, 2010
A short write-up entitled “Students use social media to promote stories of Irish travels” appears in the January 2010 issue of Tech&Learning magazine both in print and online (http://www.techlearning.com/article/26576).
The article talks about how the use of social media transformed the program from having just a local, school audience to that of a global one. It [...]
Since returning from the 2009 trip the conversations around the Irish Studies program have continued. Moving to the new format and including more social medai tools in the site has sparked a great deal of interest in what we are doing, how it has grown our audience and brought more attention to the program.
This past [...]

