Facebook Scholarship and Academia
With a serious but hip academic posing seriously and hip-ly in front of a monitor I would love to own, showing a Facebook profile some dots and lines (presumably social graphs), the New York Times notes how great Facebook is for research. See the whole article here. Some interesting tidbits from the article: “Researchers learned […]
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 […]
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 […]
Laissez-faire About Privacy
After visiting 30 schools and talking to hundreds, if not thousands, of college students in the past two years, my conclusion is this: Students do not care about privacy in any fundamental sense. They just don’t. They figure the government just shouldn’t or wouldn’t mess with them. Corporations aren’t even on the radar. The only […]
The Red Rover Community List
The following individuals are following the progress of Red Rover and involved in the community. Pilot schools are marked with a (1) or (2) based on the pilot round they are registered for: ** Dave Leenhouts Coastal Georgia Community College (1) Director of Student Life Facebook E-Mail Victor Collazo Valencia Community College (2) Student Programing […]
Towards A Red Rover Theoretical Foundation
As part of the MacArthur DML application. We are working on framing a historical context in which to place Red Rover. I talked before about the need for a “cogent theoretical framework” for the application itself, this work is getting us closer to it. Because MacArthur wants everything quick and to the point, our framework […]
MacArthur Foundation Submission
We are submitting a grant proposal to the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Competition. In the spirit of transparency and collaboration, we’ll be posting our entry process, final submission and references up on this blog. Grants are new to us as entrepreneurs, so it’s another exciting stretch for us. We’ve received valuable advice and […]
The Application of Dance Floor Theory™ (Green Bay!)
One of my last presentations on the latest tour was at Wisconsin Green Bay. It was three hours or so, DFT 1, 2, and some technology blended in from the Secrets Behind Myspace and Facebook**. A student came up afterwards and said that she had been discussing the day at their table and that they […]
It’s Too Easy to Focus on the Negatives of Myspace and Facebook
We break our Myspace/Facebook program** for students into 3 parts: 1) The Dangers 2) Protecting Yourself 3) How to Use the Tools Positively and Effectively In the actual talk, we spend only about 1/3rd of the time on the first two parts and 2/3rds on the last part. The reason is studies show that students […]
Why We Speak.
Kevin is on the tail end of a 3 week tour with 14 days of solid speaking. That’s impressive and the most amount of consecutive speaking we’ve ever done. Before he left I sent him an email as a reminder as to why our speaking matters beyond keeping Swift Kick alive: Today on Facebook, I […]