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7 SXSW Interactive Presentations You Should Vote For

by Jeff Jackson on August 27, 2010

Share 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 [...]

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Campus Tech Connection #7 Guest Rey Junco [Posted]

by Jeff Jackson on July 27, 2010

Share [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This podcast has a brief history lesson in online bulletin boards, talk of back channels, millennial grades, a host disconnected, callers, and we did not even get to talk about Rey’s book or mention in the Huffington Post. Follow Rey on Twitter Read Rey’s Blog

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A Case for Best Practices in Social Media

by Julie Larsen on July 14, 2010

Share I took some time yesterday to watch @EdCabellon’s interview with @ReyJunco from July 12th at Tufts University. The pair talked about social media, student engagement, and how Student Affairs professionals can integrate social media into their work and student outreach. One idea that stuck out for me was that of best practices in social [...]

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Google Releases CloudCourse

by Jeff Jackson on May 27, 2010

Share ReadWriteWeb reports last week Google releases a new learning platform, CloudCourse. CloudCourse is a course-scheduling tool, fully integrated with Google Calendar. CloudCourse also features approval processes, wait list management, as well as room and user profile information and can be further customized to sync the data with other internal systems. This is licensed as [...]

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How to Tweet: Student Activism

by Julie Larsen on March 9, 2010

Share A few of the classes that will be part of our summer academic schedule began to leak out the other day, and a few students expressed concern. Several of them are wanting to maximize their course load for the summer session, and the one course that fit our degree plan didn’t generate excitement. Flash [...]

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Social Media: Today’s For and Against

by Julie Larsen on March 4, 2010

Share I work with social media daily in my job, so I was very excited when I saw this recent Mashable post on How Twitter Can Boost Classroom Engagement. (Sidenote: Mashable is a great website overall for Social Media information. I’d suggest a bookmark.) I was happy the article not only talked about how students [...]

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Come Get Your Chickering Seven Button

by Julie Larsen on February 25, 2010

Share On one of the first days of my graduate course on student development theory, our professor told us that we would have to work hard in her class. She challenged us to move beyond just reading and memorizing. We were expected to dig deep, really look at and review these theories — successful application [...]

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The Huffington Post Goes to College.

by Jeff Jackson on February 23, 2010

Share Yesterday The Huffington Post has launched an additional section to their online newspaper focused on college and education news. This is great for those of you that cannot read enough about what’s happening in the Higher Education world. I am an occasional reader of the Huffington Post, but this will make me a daily [...]

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How Social Are You?

by Jeff Jackson on February 22, 2010

Share Last week I shared with you The Chronicles Readers Panel social network, and thought I should share with you some additional groups or networks you can join. If you are a Facebook user, here are a few pages I would suggest – however, they vary in their level of activity: LeaderShape The Cronk of [...]

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The Chronicle Gets Social

by Jeff Jackson on February 18, 2010

Share If you have not discovered it before now (I think it has been around for about a year) The Chronicle of Higher Educations has a NING community they call the Readers Panel. They use the community to get feedback from their readers for upcoming stories. I joined last week (there are 232 members) and [...]

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