Today the New Media Consortium (NMC) released their annual Horizon Report. The 2010 Horizon Report offers a look into what the next big trends are in educational technology. Each year the NMC puts out a call to higher education institutions and museums to submit what innovated tools they are using and research they are doing [...]
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Taking attendance at events and programs is nothing new. Whether it’s for keeping track of numbers or to turn in expense reports, sign-in sheets become part of the programming tradition. But, what if you took attendance to the next level? A few days ago I wrote about using a swipe-card system with student IDs to [...]
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The Wired Campus newsletter reported yesterday that a settlement had been reached between Arizona State University and two disabilities rights organizations who sued over use of the Kindle Reader from Amazon. The suit alleged that Arizona State was discriminating against blind students as the reader did not provide sufficient accessibility features. This raises the question [...]
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Most campuses now use student ID cards that contain a magnetic strip with student information that is used for a variety of purposes. Perhaps you have wanted to jump on the bandwagon and use student IDs for tracking attendance, checking students into buildings, inventory management, or any number of things. There are plenty of high-end [...]
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In my quest to create the Ultimate Student Affairs Twitter list. I discovered Dean of Students Kenn Elmore at Boston University. I clicked on his webpage fully equipped with blog, Kenn’s Twitter account, Facebook fan page, Flickr account, and a very entertaining video about H1N1 and Student Health Services. I think Boston University serves as [...]
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