The Value of a College Degree in the Networked World

The Value of a College Degree

Working in San Francisco with the Red Rover programming team, so this will be quick. mycreditunion kristian welch consume Schools used to base their value on ownership of the books and the information. Now many are sharing what they know for free. As a group, schools are beginning to value sharing over hoarding. The old […]

Red Rover Milestones

Red Rover Milestones

Downloadable as a pretty .pdf here**. Or as a small picture:** The order of things might change. When we need money depends partially on how fast we develop, on how much we speak, or the timing of key employees. We might decide it makes more sense to have a paid feature extension before we go […]

Trying to Avoid the Advertising on the Horizon

Advertising

Catching up on my feeds from the weekend, I came across Danah Boyd’s posting about youth, advertising, and social responsibility. by strangeinterlude The short of it is this: marketing necessarily creates ideals, these ideals put substantial pressure on our youth, and the “kids”, in turn, take it out on each other. In her blog, Danah […]

Oh The Irony . . .

The irony of my last two posts, taken together is hilarious. What a mess. Didn’t even occur to me. Two honest points with their belief structures, stored on either side of my head.

Laissez-faire About Privacy

Laissez-faire About Privacy

After visiting 30 schools and talking to hundreds, if not thousands, of college students in the past two years, my conclusion is this: Students do not care about privacy in any fundamental sense. They just don’t. They figure the government just shouldn’t or wouldn’t mess with them. Corporations aren’t even on the radar. The only […]

Why Walled Gardens are Wrong for College Social Networking

In the Secrets Behind Myspace and Facebook lecture we do a quick introduction to digital identity: It was easy when your digital identity was primarily how you represented yourself in chat rooms, to pretend to be anyone you wanted to be. Your digital identity did not have to overlap with your real identity. Now, with […]

The Red Rover Community List

The following individuals are following the progress of Red Rover and involved in the community.  Pilot schools are marked with a (1) or (2) based on the pilot round they are registered for: ** Dave Leenhouts Coastal Georgia Community College (1) Director of Student Life Facebook E-Mail Victor Collazo Valencia Community College (2) Student Programing […]

Towards A Red Rover Theoretical Foundation

Foundation

As part of the MacArthur DML application. We are working on framing a historical context in which to place Red Rover. I talked before about the need for a “cogent theoretical framework” for the application itself, this work is getting us closer to it. Because MacArthur wants everything quick and to the point, our framework […]

The Application of Dance Floor Theory™ (Green Bay!)

One of my last presentations on the latest tour was at Wisconsin Green Bay.  It was three hours or so, DFT 1, 2, and some technology blended in from the Secrets Behind Myspace and Facebook**. A student came up afterwards and said that she had been discussing the day at their table and that they […]

Talking Metaphors and Schema on the Front Porch

Talking Metaphors

At LACUSPA over the last few days, I was really enjoying the conversational and educational power of good metaphors.  I think it’s something we do well at Swift Kick. First, it was with Dance Floor Theory, comparing dance floor dynamics to engagement and apathy and service leadership.   Now it is with technology. Our whole program and […]

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