Seeing the Results
In talking with teachers, I often hear about how one of their greatest joys is when a former student comes back to tell how something you did impact their lives in a positive way. We don’t work with the same students nearly as long as a teacher does, but we do get to feel a […]
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.
In the Race
Sooo close. That’s the theme this week. We see the finish line and it’s T-minus 2 weeks or so until we release Red Rover**. It needs a little polish on the user interface and some touch ups to the design and that’s it, we’ll be done with version 1.0! When Red Rover is finished, it […]
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 […]
The Evolving Design of Swift Kick
When we started we wanted to make a mark as a company. The goal was to be bigger than just speaking, bigger than the individuals involved, but actually establish a brand that a network could grow with. So on our early Dance Floor Theory presentation slides, we put our logo: Every single slide had the […]
The Final Logo for Red Rover
Thank you so much to all of you that threw in your two cents into the Red Rover logo selection process, we went around a few more times with our designer, Chris Cerasoli, trying to find the perfect font. We tweaked this and that and came down to our final choice. Here it is: While […]
New Decisions For Red Rover: Part One: Patents?
Entrepreneurialism is a tricky business. There is much to worry about- finances, marketing, innovation, operations, etc., etc. they all need decisions. In rolling out a new product, in our case Red Rover, there are many many decisions to make – what to include, what to leave out, how to sell it, what to charge for […]
Red Rover in Context
As we turn our full attention to Red Rover, I think it is important, and fun, to put the product in context. We started Red Rover with the intent of building a tool that encapsulated Dance Floor Theory™ leadership training and pushes forward the Swift Kick mission. A what to go with the hows that we’ve […]
Knocking ‘Em Down
I’m really excited about launching the new Activities + Affairs blog, newsletter and community learning platform. It’s an exciting project that we’ve had on our plate for a year and it opens up so many interesting things for advisors and student leaders (who will soon get a matching platform of their own). I’m proud of […]