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Guest Carrie Bierck from Miami University joins Jamie and Ed.
ACUHO-I Salary Survey Results
SXSW Interactive Festival is a 5 day gathering of emerging technology leaders that takes place in Austin, TX every March. This year, student affairs professionals can have a voice at the event for the first time, but we need your help by giving it your thumbs up. The voting deadline is at 11:59 CT on Friday, August 27 so you need to vote today.
I have a panel proposal with Anya Kamenetz (Author of DIY U and staff writer for Fast Company Magazine) and Laura Pasquini (Co-Host of Campus Tech Connection podcast and PhD student in Education Technology). The panel title is The New University: Technology is Transforming Higher Education.
There is also a solo presentation proposed by Student Affairs Superstar, Rey Junco, from Lock Haven University. His presentation, Using Twitter to Improve College Student Engagement, will discuss the effect of social media and student development.
You can find out more information about the Panel Picker here.
Other presentation I voted for:
Mozilla School of Webcraft @P2PU by John Britton, Peer 2 Peer University
Drinking from the Fire Hose – Interactive Education by Brad Berkner, Elon University
Social Software in Education by Michael Staton, Inigral, Inc
Social Media and Higher Education: Connected, Smarter Communities by Yong Lee, Social Media Club
Online Learning and the Classroom of the Future by Jeremy Johnson, 2tor, Inc.
Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins
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Original Air Date: August 23, 2010
Guest Sarah Robbins joined us on the podcast. You can find her website here.
We started out talking about Second Life and moved on to location based application and sites.
Some sites and apps we discussed:
twitter 360
Own This World
SCVNGR
Guest post by Jessica M. Fantini
Have you ever heard the saying, “it’s not about what you know as much as it is about who you know”? Well, sometimes that’s just it. Working within the field of Student Affairs, and more specifically Residence Life, you may have noticed that there are a few people you’ve seen multiple times either at conferences or even job placements. It is a small field and most of the time you’ll find someone who knows someone else – some say it’s the field with only two degrees of separation! How is this good? Well, it’s because one of the greatest assets you can have as a professional is that of a good, reliable, network of peers.
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