Speaker, Edtech and Peanut Butter – The Case for Reengineering Student Activities
In college, I tried to start an Entrepreneur Club but never got past the paperwork. The Student Activities office manager handed me three pages of clearly defined step-by-step guidelines she created on how to start a new group. It was evident she had spent a long time creating the document and was proud of the […]
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 […]
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 Function: Group Recommendation
Red Rover automatically makes recommendations on student groups, providing the student with a shortlist of options tailored to their interests. How It Works 1. Based on the tags the student added to Red Rover, the system delivers appropriate groups with matching tags. 2. The student can join the groups with one click (based on the […]
RR Function: Self Tagging
Self tagging is really the heart of the Red Rover system. The process is misleadingly simple, in terms of the power and flexibility the function brings to education.
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 […]