Abilene Christian University’s mLearning (Mobile Learning) Initiative
Oklahoma Christian University partnered with Apple Computers to offer every 1st year student attending an orientation the option of a new Apple MacBook, iPhone, or iPod Touch! While it sounds unique, it’s not the first time as Abilene Christian University (ACU) were the pioneers in offering** a free iPhone or iPod Touch as a bonus […]
Talking vs. Doing
I was complaining to my girlfriend last night about talking vs. doing. That I like talking. It’s much easier than doing. We get paid to talk right now. But it is a small part of the solution. Reconfiguring the system is doing – it’s much harder and a much bigger part of the solution. Red […]
Getting an “Expert” Mentor in 3 Minutes With Delicious
Used to be one had to put long hours of Googling into research. Not so much anymore. Want to get and stay current? Use delicious.com to find the fast-fingered searcher types in any field. I thought this was a known way to use delicious – that of course it was fine for storing things but […]
The Traveling Logistics of a Speaker – 53 Hours Later
We semi joke that speakers don’t get paid to speak, but rather to show up on time as that is the hardest part of the job. To show you what I mean, here’s what the last 53 hours of my life looked like: Feb 26th 5:00 pm – drive 1 hour to Lake Forest 6:30 […]
MacArthur DML Competition – Reading the Tea Leaves
Traveling has me late with this post. Procrastination too. I’ve been worried about “sour grapes” and hoped that with a little time, I might better be able to get the right tone. A while back, when it seemed that we did not win the MacArthur DML grant, I said I was interested in reviewing the […]
Speaking is Just One Piece
Even though right now, the majority of our income is from our trainings for schools, we’ve always believed that speaking was only a piece of the bigger goal of solving student apathy. We speak, but we aren’t speakers. In fact, we think there are speakers out there like, Dave Coleman, who are hands down better […]
Reviewing our 2007 Goals – Looking Forward to 2008
At the beginning of 2007, we created company goals for the coming year. In 2005 and 2006 we did a similar exercise. This last year we wanted to create more specific, measurable goals that we could follow up on. At our company retreat last month, we reviewed the 07 goals. Below is a list of […]
Turned Down by the MacArthur DML Competition – Staying Sustainable
The Conference on the First-Year Experience was a fantastic event for us because Red Rover** was very popular. The attendees were a mix of student advisors, deans, faculty, and librarians. Each group had a slightly different curiosity for Red Rover, but they all had one question in common and it was probably the most popular […]
Conference on the First Year Experience and the Genius of our Community
We often feel really dumb in our work when we repeat the same silly mistakes. This time we wasted four days of work thinking we could come up with the answer on our own instead of asking for advice from the rich pool of knowledge around us. Last week we reached out to our community […]
Bosie State Newspaper Article About Swift Kick Training
It’s nice for us to connect with school newspaper reporters during our on-site trainings. It allows the message of the training to go out beyond just those who attended. Colby Stream of the Boise State Arbiter wrote a follow-up** to our Myspace/Facebook training at their school. Colby did a great job in capturing many of […]