SEELANGS Facebook page

[Josh Wilson]

SRAS actually runs a Facebook page as well. It's quite active with serious
articles on modern Russian politics and economics, the latest "prikoli" that
we come across, new books that we hear announced, and of course, new
resources on our site as they become available or get updated. 

We recently passed the 1000 fan mark and are still growing pretty strong. 

You can find us at www.facebook.com/SRASfb

Best, 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
www.SRAS.org

Deadlines to apply for most SRAS study abroad programs in Russia are coming
up soon. Get your applications in by October 15!
http://www.sras.org/programs 




-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Susan LaVelle
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 7:37 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] SEELANGS Facebook page

I also am a graduate student like Stephanie and I think that I would
discourage her from pursuing a facebook page for this listserve. The
additional traffic--especially from undergraduates--that facebook might
attract, would likely decrease the candor of the listserve. As it stands
now, a professor can recommend any student to be a listserve member (that is
why I am here), but opening the list up in the way that facebook  might,
would likely stifle the academic and collegial atmosphere. Certainly
professors should be recommending this listserve to any graduate students
that would benefit from it and perhaps they need a reminder on occasion to
keep doing it.

What graduate students like about the listserve, or at least what I like
best about it, is to be able to be "a mouse in the corner" and watch the
professors and experts press forward their take on an issue, along with its
natural, and sometimes frisky, debate. I don't want to make the academics
less apt to contribute their free opinions. When they argue out the current
parameters of a subject, I learn a lot about the topic's past and present
direction and the nuances of the discussion.

For most students, I think that the crucial thing is for their professors
and instructors to bring to their attention the useful websites and
resources that will help them make progress and develop their interests
where they are at. I have seen on this listserve, for example, information
by Prof R Robin (sorry if I got the name wrong), with that kind of great
information useful to undergraduates. 

I think that perhaps a useful service for someone like Stephanie would be to
start a facebook page or a blog for students of Russian that incorporates
and keeps current lots of these resources for the use of undergraduates.
Many times SEELANGS brings to light things that undergraduates would find
useful, like the MOSFILMS available free on the internet or the dictionaries
just added to the Russian Archive on the SRAS webpage
(http://www.sras.org/russian_archive_access). Of course, there is already
some of this, but usually from the perspective of various institutional
sources, not from a student's perspective. You, Stephanie, may be poised to
do something like that.

Susan LaVelle

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