This last week Kian has brought home 4 'bring a friend to dance' passes. He will likely get 2 more tomorrow as well. The problem I am finding is that he never has just one recreation class (except Tuesday). For him to bring a friend, their parents have to agree to drive them and pick them up from Lambeth. That is a 30 minute drive from the very north of the city to the very south.
Most of Kian's friends would not be caught dead in ballet or jazz class (Mon & Tues class). The one they are likely to want to attend is breakdance or hip hop on Thursday. Kian starts dance at 4pm so his recreation classes (the ones with 'bring a friend') are from 6-7 & 7-8. I then dance from 8-10 so my husband has to shuttle Kian and my daughter home to bed. Is it wrong to allow Kian to invite a friend if they can find a ride?
I am having trouble with this. I would hate to say no when he really wanted to bring a friend to see what he does but it is really asking another parent to inconvenience themselves. Same thing for Niamh though. She wants to bring a friend to her 9am Saturday morning acro class. She has gymnastics right after so if the friend came with us she would have to wait through that class or have her parents pick her up at 10.
I also had to say no to the first school event Kian will have to miss thanks to dance. The school Christmas concert is scheduled for a Thursday night at 6pm. He has already missed Thursday classes thanks to Halloween (I had to let him skip) so he can't miss any more. So I signed the consent form back saying that he wouldn't be participating nor in attendance. He didn't seem heartbroken so hopefully it will be ok.
On the class front this week our readings were about tags. For me personally I tag people in photos on Instagram and Facebook but I tend mostly to use hashtags on twitter. I haven't gotten used to the hashtag feature on Facebook yet. When I use a hashtag on twitter it is either one that I am using to allow others to find my tweet such as when watching Sons of Anarchy I will hashtag with #SOAFX but when I am just typing a general tweet I tend to use a hashtag such as #justsaying when I want to emphasize my point.
At work I use hashtags to reach certain groups of people on both Facebook and Twitter. One hashtag I used a lot recently was #WesternU2013. I was trying to reach the graduating class on Friday when the 401 was closed due to an accident. The Helpline was getting a lot of calls from panicked students who were stuck. We wanted to convey the information that they should proceed straight to Alumni Hall when they reached campus and we would have their regalia waiting for them. We also use #WesternU when we want a broad group to see our tweet. This also prompts @westernu to see our tweet and retweet it for us.
Over the last few weeks I have been trying to grow our followers and two things have provided us growth. We tweeted the preliminary exam schedule October 11th and then on Nov 4th we tweeted about refund cheques being available. Both of those updates along with adding our twitter to the bottom of official emails has encouraged followers.
Today I asked my student-staff why they use tags. Their overwhelming response was just to make a point and to share their thoughts. They don't do it to make searching easier but simply because they like the way it looks.
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