How We See Ourselves
Swift Kick is a laboratory. While there are many layers of experiments underneath (business structure, marketing, virtual company, transparency, etc.) our primary value to education is in the ability to visualize, put together, and sustain experiments in the fields of student engagement and education technology. To be clear, we are not the researchers. We cannot […]
Reviewing our 2007 Goals – Looking Forward to 2008
At the beginning of 2007, we created company goals for the coming year. In 2005 and 2006 we did a similar exercise. This last year we wanted to create more specific, measurable goals that we could follow up on. At our company retreat last month, we reviewed the 07 goals. Below is a list of […]
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 […]
2008: Strategy Review (History before Future : )
In the process of putting together the 2008 APCA Advisors’ Institute tech keynote, I came across this slide from the 2007 keynote. The simplicity is probably because I made it late at night, but in the light of day, and one year later, I love this unequivocal explanation of Swift Kick: The implementation order of […]
Why Red Rover Matters to Increasing Engagement on Campus
The 2006 National Survey on Student Engagement said, “The most important factor [to increased engagement on campus] was relationships with faculty and other students.” The 2005 National Survey on Student Engagement reported that 60-84% (non-commuter vs commuter campuses) of college students will never participate in a college sponsored activity. On the flip side of that. […]
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 […]
When the Content is Crappy, the Pipe Doesn’t Matter: Colleges and Facebook
After realizing the headline made all the difference in click through on my own RSS reader, I decided to spice up my own headlines. How’d I do? Left a post about this on Kevin Guidry’s Mistaken Goal and wanted to back up to some thinking and follow up with some visuals. We spend so much […]