Timing Matters and Immunity to Viralness
There are three stages to Red Rover setup: School admin sets up groups at school. Student leaders set up their individual groups (summary and tags) Students set themselves up and join groups Step three is basically the “online orientation” part. We’ve been told by a few schools that they plan on including step three as […]
Red Rover and Tom on the Radio
Tom was interviewed by WGN of Chicago about winning the Ideablob.com contest recently. It was a funny conversation before hand, where we were reviewing the important things to mention (knowing that he was dealing in sound bites). We came up with: 1) What: Orientation software that integrates with Myspace and Facebook (The shortest “What is […]
Red Rover at the National Conference of FYE
Happy to announce that we’ve been accepted to present Red Rover at the National Conference of the First Year Experience in February. It’s a big honor and a critical conversation. Definitely, a challenge is that we had to submit our proposal some time ago. We had hoped to be farther along with case studies, but […]
Red Rover early questions: “What About Diversity?”
We are starting to get a few recurring questions from people that hear about Red Rover for the first time. These are great for an early stage project and listening to these comments and effectively processing them is paramount. Listening is the first step. Effective processing is step two – meaning do the right thing […]
Judging Student Literacy
It’s blog entries like Noichole Pinkard’s** that keep my excitement flowing about the potential future of education. Here’s my favorite line: I conjecture that by 2018, a student will routinely be judged not only by her ability to write a 5-paragraph essay but her ability to represent her ideas via a 5 minute podcast, 2 […]
Patience Still Matters With Technology
We have pride in our vision. We try to avoid hubris with doses of self-deprecation, but I’ll be honest, we have moments in conversation where the word “genius” gets thrown around only half way in jest. We are still young. Someday we will know to not be impressed. At the moment, however, it drives us […]
Update – Red Rover Submission into the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitoin
Thus far, the MacArthur Foundation has not released any information, or hints, on the status of individual applications. I’m not sure if they will or if they are holding out until mid-February. The only post competition press release I’ve found is a blog written in October by Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, HASTAC […]
MacArthur DML Grant Submission (Our Actual Submission)
We promised to put our MacArthur DML submission process and final submission up on the blog. Then we got ridiculously busy with speaking. Now we’re back, making good. The Process Our submission process was primarily driven by collaboration. Appropriately, we thought, considering the point of the competition. We set up google docs for each one […]
Utilizing Red Rover Tag Clouds for Marketing
Red Rover uses tags throughout its interface to help match people and groups together on campus. Tags are simple keywords that describe a person or group. Institution tag clouds, like the one seen here, are a collection of all the individual and group tags for an institution. The institution tag cloud becomes a poster for […]
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.