Teaching The Google Effect and Digital Identities
Have you ever Googled yourself? What did you find? What didn’t you find? This morning Will Richardson wrote about several conversations he’s had with principals and administrations regarding if and how they use Google when hiring new employees: “When you have some applicants lined up for a teaching vacancy, do you “Google” them? Seems a […]
Don’t Market. Build Well. And Then Community Content.
Found this over at Logic + Emotion – for us and every other entrepreneur out there, it’s essential.
How to Bankrupt a Startup – A Funny Take From SXSW
No one starts a business with the goal to go bankrupt, but yet somehow 9 out of 10 businesses fail within the first 3 years. Many startups outsource financial aspects of the business to companies like Early Growth, which provide 409a valuations and help with equity management and taxes as well as other things. Obviously, […]
Blown Mind
I just watched a Google presentation that seemingly took place in the woods but was streaming live from Scobleizer’s cell phone. I, and 20k other people on Twitter, were invited by Scobleizer to watch the presentation live. While it happened I chatted online with a couple hundred folks about the future of the software codes, Ruby on Rails vs. Python, as seen by Google.
Google wants to host Python based applications for free. This is exciting as hosting is not cheap and we budgeted a pile of cash for hosting Red Rover. The problem is we didn’t use Python to build Red Rover. It was all done on Ruby, so we are crossing our fingers that Google will work with Ruby next.
I’m done watching for now, but it looks like it’s going to go on for a bit more. Everything about the last 10 minutes in front of my lap top is mind blowing.
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 […]
Yah, What He Said
From The Chronicle this morning: Mark David Milliron, from Catalyze Learning International: OK, what happens at Amazon after you buy a book? People like you who bought this book also bought this, this, and this, right? They immediately give you that kind of a choice. They do data mining about the past, predictive modeling about […]
First Year Students as a New Thought – The Learning Institutional “Brain”
Because we speak quite a bit at Swift Kick, and because we work on the new stuff, where abstraction is common, “vision” is everywhere, and hard experience is limited, we love the analogy. We love to ground the new in the schema of the old. This is just what effective teachers do all the time. […]
Thoughts on Thoughts on Thoughts
Our ideas come from a collection of conversations, books, articles, blogs, and videos among many other sources. We are active participants in what is coined the Read/Write Web in which someone takes a little content to produce a little content. We are both consumers and produces at the same time. It’s very gratifying to receive […]
College Speaker of The Year – 2008
Each year student activities departments from around the country vote for their favorite speaker of the year. Last week, in Atlanta, we were honored as the 2008 College Speaker of the Year. To add to the honor, it’s our second year in a row winning the award. Last year we spoke at 60 schools, went […]
How We See Ourselves
Swift Kick is a laboratory. While there are many layers of experiments underneath (business structure, marketing, virtual company, transparency, etc.) our primary value to education is in the ability to visualize, put together, and sustain experiments in the fields of student engagement and education technology. To be clear, we are not the researchers. We cannot […]