From Easiest to Hardest
Idea Money People Execution Of course, you need them all. I talk to so many would be entrepreneurs that have this order confused. They think because they have an idea, they have some value. Sure, better to start with a good idea than a bad one, but if you have the rest the original idea […]
Sharpening a Pencil
Pencils work when they are sharp. So does marketing. So does information architecture. So does the user interface. So do viral memes. We are sharpening Red Rover. There are so many things we could say about it. Many ways we could describe it. The current challenge is to define the POINT. The one thing we […]
RR Future Function: Activities Dashboard
Advisors would be able to connect to their advisees and see who has joined what and what they are participating in.
This “dashboard” would give them real time to data and help them focus their attention on the students that need it most. (This is a recommendation of the DEEP project, but currently it is pretty difficult to implement without real time involvement info.)
RR Future Function: Txt Msg to Self Tag
The following is the “Future Function” we are exploring for the addition to the Red Rover system. As always, your thoughts are welcome! Future Function A student could text a word to a given number and this word would be added to their tag profile. They would then automatically be added to a group that […]
RR Function: Student Leader Communication
Empowering student leaders requires communication – Red Rover provides the ability to focus communication to those that have opted in (reducing SPAM) and tools to increase the efficacy of communication through multiple channels. How It Works 1. From their group page, student leaders (and advisors if they like) have at least three different ways to […]
RR Function: Group Recommendation
Red Rover automatically makes recommendations on student groups, providing the student with a shortlist of options tailored to their interests. How It Works 1. Based on the tags the student added to Red Rover, the system delivers appropriate groups with matching tags. 2. The student can join the groups with one click (based on the […]
RR Function: Self Tagging
Self tagging is really the heart of the Red Rover system. The process is misleadingly simple, in terms of the power and flexibility the function brings to education.
Inmates and Asylums
From Flickr: Then one day, the students decided they had nothing to learn from adults and took matters into their own hands. The students were wrong about the adults of course, but the mistake was understandable. In the end, however, the students learned this on their own.
A Lovely Nexus
This is an exciting place to be: Research Links: Learning Reconsidered** Data Don’t Drive** Thanks to Dave Leenhouts, for pointing us in the right direction. We actually did the reading Dave : ) ** Link Broken as of June/2019
The Democratization of Activities: Bigger Than the Old Network
We’re tagging OSU’s group list as a way to pre-populate standard groups. (So if similar groups are already in the system they can pick or select all tags from the matching group pool.) Tagging at this volume is pretty tedious (but that’s the idea, this way, no one else will have to do it). We […]