Yah, What He Said
From The Chronicle this morning: Mark David Milliron, from Catalyze Learning International: OK, what happens at Amazon after you buy a book? People like you who bought this book also bought this, this, and this, right? They immediately give you that kind of a choice. They do data mining about the past, predictive modeling about […]
First Year Students as a New Thought – The Learning Institutional “Brain”
Because we speak quite a bit at Swift Kick, and because we work on the new stuff, where abstraction is common, “vision” is everywhere, and hard experience is limited, we love the analogy. We love to ground the new in the schema of the old. This is just what effective teachers do all the time. […]
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 […]
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 […]
APML and Education
A pretty little video: DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo**. At the moment this is a highly fringe technology conversation – solving a problem of only the most involved and finicky mobile networkers. The idea of data portability is great – though the current challenge is twofold: you can’t get […]
Student Assessment Graphs Added to Red Rover
We made another round of improvements to the assessment dashboard by adding several new key data metrics and by making the dashboard more visually appealing with graphs. Consider this Version 1.9999 (not quite 2.0 🙂 Only the admin for the school’s Red Rover account has access to the dashboard. From there, the admin can share […]
Interview about Red Rover with Peter Barnes of Fox Business TV
In case you happen to be up and about at 6:45 am tomorrow (Jan 23rd) tune into the morning edition of Fox Business TV with Peter Barnes**. He is interviewing me about Red Rover, Swift Kick, Ideablob, and why I like peanut butter so much. Yes, I did say 6:45 am 🙂 We should have […]
Chicago Sun-Times Article on Red Rover and Swift Kick
Sandra Guy from the Chicago Sun-Times wrote about Red Rover and Swift Kick from an entrepreneurial startup standpoint. She does a great job of capturing Red Rover’s role in new student orientation: “Red Rover does for education what eHarmony does for dating,” Krieglstein said. “We connect students via online networks to other students, groups and […]
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 […]