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DeKalb Technical College today launches a new era in education. Students, faculty, staff and the community will now be able to find out important information with a tweet, or friend “GoDeKalbTech” on Facebook, or view videos about DeKalb Tech on YouTube. One room school houses, ink wells and quill pens were once the standard tools of education, but when students walk into the classroom at DeKalb Technical College for the 2009 fall quarter the only thing similar to that by-gone era will be the teacher and an educational mission. The blackboards are no longer black, students will take notes with ergonomically correct pens, and the “school house” has transformed into a multi-level, multi-building electronic educational mecca.
“This will provide another avenue for the flow of information to our community,” says Dr. Robin Hoffman, president of DeKalb Technical College. “Our goal is to use this avenue as a multi-purpose tool. We want to reconnect with DeKalb Tech alumni through Facebook, establish ties to current and potential students through Twitter and showcase our programs of study with videos on YouTube,” says Cory Thompson, DeKalb Tech’s Public Relations & Information Director. The schools website also has a new look as well as links to our social media web pages. Finding out more information and beginning the registration process is only a click away when you ask for more information on the school’s home page. These web pages for all of the social media sights fall under the umbrella of GoDeKalbTech.
Here are the links for each:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GoDeKalbTech
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/GoDeKalbTech
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GoDeKalbTech
DeKalb Technical College Website: www.dekalbtech.edu
DeKalb Technical College, a unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, promotes a student-centered environment for lifelong learning and development, encompassing academic and technical education for employment in a global community. The college has eight centers of learning in DeKalb, Newton, Rockdale, and Morgan counties. Established in 1961, DeKalb Technical College currently has more than 4,000 students enrolled in diploma or degree programs and more than 9,000 in adult education classes. Academic and technical programs at DeKalb Tech cover more than 100 different occupations. For more information visit our website at www.dekalbtech.edu.
