4 Ways to Integrate Lessons Learned at a Conference

Have you ever gone to a conference, learned all the things and gone back to your team, ready to implement every last morsel of information? How did they respond? Probably with a face that would make you think lobsters are trying to escape from your head. Rather than trying to turn your team upside down with changes and “improvements,” […]

Student Affairs Leaders of Tomorrow Video Blog

Step 2 Red Rover Admin Set up Video Guide – Inviting Group Leaders

What a Weekend! I had the opportunity this past Sunday and Monday to attend the Student Affairs Leaders of Tomorrow conference as a delegate from Bridgewater State University. NASPA for Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education is a conference for emerging student leaders to connect and learn more about graduate school. This conference is all […]

CoolTool: Join.Me – Super Simple Screen Sharing

CoolTool: Join.Me – Super Simple Screen Sharing

NAME: Join.me URL: http://www.join.me WHAT IT DOES: Super simple, and free, screen sharing, screen controlling, and virtual conference tool. MY TAKE: I don’t like having a lot of software on my computer. Several online screen sharing tools, I get invited to, ask me to download something before I can use it.  While Join. Me does […]

Education Reform: Feeling Like An Outsider

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the inaugural #140edu conference in NYC, which brought together several hundred educators for two days to talk about the future of education. Modeled after TED, each person was given roughly 10 minutes to talk about his/her topic. My topic was on leveraging social media to increase student engagement […]

Laying Tracks for Motivated Trains

Laying Tracks for Motivated Trains

Three quick stories, one important point. Story #1: Last week, before my soccer match, I watched a little league softball game on the field next to us. Surrounding the field was a collection of parents multitasking between the game, their blackberries, and babysitting their, even younger, offspring. One parent in particular was having a hard […]

Weak Ties vs Strong Ties

Weak Ties vs Strong Ties

James Fowler’s keynote address at the #ACUI11 conference last week stirred up quite a discussion after he made the claim that online relationships had little influence over behavior. As expected, our friends in the #SAchat community quickly expressed concern for the statement through the Twitter backchannel and afterwards in the hotel lobby as they’ve experienced […]

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