HELP
HELP!
Ok, peeps, I need a bit of work-related help and advice. I should explain first what I do. I'm Postgraduate Secretary at the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. I don't like the term secretary as people assume all I do is type letters and file. While I do do that, I also co-ordinate all admissions, all programmes, marketing, open days, exams, the PG and Masters Committees, the PG side of the website, as well as any prospective student enquiries and helping out current students. So I'm pretty busy.
There are 2 things I've been wondering about:
1) We were considering setting up some sort of forum that I can administer for prospective students to discuss the course and to 'meet' other students via the internet before they start their course. Our university IT people can't organise something because of licensing. So I was thinking about setting something up myself. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I could do? How do I set up a small forum? Is there a facility for setting up something like that? We were considering facebook groups as a possibililty. Anybody have any suggestions?
2) The most recent addition to my task list is producing the Postgraduate Newsletter. In previous years this hasn't been too awe inspiring so I've been tasked with jazzing it up and making it actually interesting. Has anyone got any suggestions for making it interesting? At the moment we're asking students to submit fieldtrip reports, reviews, news, pictures, all of which sounds a bit dry. I'm considering some sort of puzzle or Geography-related brain teaser? IDEAS ARE DESPERATELY REQUIRED!
The reward for helping is my pure love and affection.
Ok, peeps, I need a bit of work-related help and advice. I should explain first what I do. I'm Postgraduate Secretary at the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield. I don't like the term secretary as people assume all I do is type letters and file. While I do do that, I also co-ordinate all admissions, all programmes, marketing, open days, exams, the PG and Masters Committees, the PG side of the website, as well as any prospective student enquiries and helping out current students. So I'm pretty busy.
There are 2 things I've been wondering about:
1) We were considering setting up some sort of forum that I can administer for prospective students to discuss the course and to 'meet' other students via the internet before they start their course. Our university IT people can't organise something because of licensing. So I was thinking about setting something up myself. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I could do? How do I set up a small forum? Is there a facility for setting up something like that? We were considering facebook groups as a possibililty. Anybody have any suggestions?
2) The most recent addition to my task list is producing the Postgraduate Newsletter. In previous years this hasn't been too awe inspiring so I've been tasked with jazzing it up and making it actually interesting. Has anyone got any suggestions for making it interesting? At the moment we're asking students to submit fieldtrip reports, reviews, news, pictures, all of which sounds a bit dry. I'm considering some sort of puzzle or Geography-related brain teaser? IDEAS ARE DESPERATELY REQUIRED!
The reward for helping is my pure love and affection.