Red Rover Intro Video
In talking with a lot of advisors who are trying to start Red Rover on their campus, one of the challenges they say they are facing is convincing the staff/admin how it works and what it does. So we put together this video. More help is coming soon including a website with screenshots and an […]
Orchestration: Building Bridges – Academia and Business
Integrated business models are when you do everything yourself. Orchestration is when you put all the people and pieces together and orchestrate the outcome of their work. We are pursuing orchestration. photo: D. Knisely** We are busy trying to orchestrate very diverse pieces of this project. We have a development team in Uzbekistan. A project […]
Assumptions, Theory and Research
A few posts ago, I made a list of assumptions for Red Rover. We are now trying to cross-compare those assumptions with published research. One of our assumptions is that a well-designed and embedded Facebook orientation will feel safe to a new student. It could feel safe for many reasons, our guesses would be: digital […]
The Amazing World of Remix or Why Our Software Will be Open Source
This kid has a great vision of himself. Imagination, determination, clearly some nascent kick ass: VIDEO FILE NO LONGER AVAILABLE He’s got sooo much, it’s just that he’s missing a little . . . something . . . something that is critical for real success. So he does his damnedest and posts it on youtube. […]
Setting up and Launching Red Rover For Pilot Schools
Updated on 2/18/08 – For the latest, see the Red Rover Wiki Adoption page here**. ———————————– This blog is a quick ‘How To‘ for the first round pilot schools (there are 15 of you!) for setting up Red Rover. There are five main steps in the process: 1) Signing up yourself as the admin (meaning […]
New Red Rover Graphics
Many things are better said with the help of pictures. Here’s a new one from the final Red Rover UI work. It’s definitely a draft and will get replaced fairly soon, but still serves as a quicker “get” than a bunch of text.
Sharpening a Pencil
Pencils work when they are sharp. So does marketing. So does information architecture. So does the user interface. So do viral memes. We are sharpening Red Rover. There are so many things we could say about it. Many ways we could describe it. The current challenge is to define the POINT. The one thing we […]
RR Future Function: Activities Dashboard
Advisors would be able to connect to their advisees and see who has joined what and what they are participating in.
This “dashboard” would give them real time to data and help them focus their attention on the students that need it most. (This is a recommendation of the DEEP project, but currently it is pretty difficult to implement without real time involvement info.)
RR Future Function: Txt Msg to Self Tag
The following is the “Future Function” we are exploring for the addition to the Red Rover system. As always, your thoughts are welcome! Future Function A student could text a word to a given number and this word would be added to their tag profile. They would then automatically be added to a group that […]
RR Function: Student Leader Communication
Empowering student leaders requires communication – Red Rover provides the ability to focus communication to those that have opted in (reducing SPAM) and tools to increase the efficacy of communication through multiple channels. How It Works 1. From their group page, student leaders (and advisors if they like) have at least three different ways to […]