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18 Dec 09

What Makes a Great Online Presentation?

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Twenty minutes is long enough in any context but on the web it's particularly daunting to keep folks interested.
She's clear on the onset about what she will be talking about. It's frustrating to watch 5 minutes of a 20 minute presentation trying to guess what it's about and what will be shared.
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- She uses video to show examples. Live examples not only illustrates her concept more richly but anytime you can include students in action adds an emotional connection to the ideas.

04 Dec 09

Swift Kick Central: Your New Best Friend, Social Networking in the First Year Experience (Part 3)

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Getting to 150 million users took the telephone 89 years
Television reached 150 million users in 38 years. Facebook did it in 5. The problem for Facebook is that the competition will do it in 3.

02 Dec 09

Swift Kick Central: Your New Best Friend, Social Networking in the First Year Experience (Part 1)

Part 1 - Setting up a foundation of Aligning Established Engagement Models (Chickering, Tinto, Astin, Barefoot) Goals With Current Tools and defining a summary of engagement on campus with comfort, connection, contribution.

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We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."- Roy Amara, former president of The Institute for the Future
eacting, and fixating on tools, is partially a function of the pace of change.
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- anchoring initiatives in goals. Only then can we measure results for future optimization. Only then can we evaluate a new tool against our goals.
- use these new social platforms to enhance the student experience.
- Twenty five percent of first year students will leave their school in their first year
- Researchers have developed a series of models to help make sense of these completely different outcomes. They’ve formed models to hypothesize about how we can best enhance the student experience, grow retention rates, increase student success and satisfaction and, yes, increase endowments.
- Chickering's 7 Vectors
  
  •    Tinto's Model of Retention
  
  •    Astin's Involvement Theory
  
  •    Barefoot's Relevant Models of Success
- In Chickering's Model, students are assessed along a series of 7 vectors- managing emotions, establishing identity, developing purpose, etc
- first assessing students along this core set of criteria, and then working to build up necessary character traits and skill-sets, Chickering felt universities could help the learner grow and thereby increase retention and success rates. The challenge for the university is that implementation of this model is dependent on individual self-assessments and outcome rubrics mapped to possible experiences. Differentiated instruction is a substantial challenge in even a small classroom; as classrooms grow, it's nearly impossible without assistance from technology.
- Tinto and Astin stress the importance of being - and feeling - connected to the place in which you learn and live.
- The more ties one has to the people and ideas of a school, through activities, friends and meaningful experiences, the more likely one is to stick around. Astin's research showed, unsurprisingly, that involved students are more likely to have better grades, graduate, and be satisfied with the experience.
- In 2005, the National Survey of Student Engagement said that 60% of students at four year schools and 84% of students at two year schools, would never participate in a college sponsored activity the entire time they are at school.
- Barefoot believes that fostering student commitment and motivation is the most important aspect of the first year experience, as success with this will mitigate other challenges
- Barefoot stresses the importance of role models, specifically relevant models
- uccess is a product of connecting those just starting on their educational journey with “people like them,” who have come before and been successful.
- Students must first establish themselves and feel comfortable. This comes from orientation, from finding people like themselves, developing friendships, and participating in relevant communication. They will explore their identity in relationship with others.
- Once the social foundation is set, some students will begin to explore connection around areas with which they identify. Their priority will shift from general social prioritization ("I want people to hang out with") to topic prioritization ("I want to hang out with people that like physics").
- Through their new peer group affiliation and participation, some will find a combination of competence and confidence, and become recognized leaders in the peer group.
- For these students then, the final stage is contribution. Their efforts become a model for others. At this final, most involved level, students actively contribute to their environment.
- These model students are the institution's greatest resource.
- The progression from comfort to connection to contribution is the path of success.
- The goal of the institution is to move all students up this pyramid.
- Any initiatives or technology must work towards this goal. They must also measure and prove their efficacy against this goal.

01 Dec 09

The Student Affairs Blog: iTweet therefore iHunt!

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We chose one account that we wanted to build through this event and made that account the central account. We didn't use a hashtag (#) because our goal was to increase followership.
Pre-event advertising was done using the typical channels
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- Once the hunt started. we tweeted clues and the participants had to tweet back for certain numbers of points. We did questions based on campus history, departmental programs, events going on that week, and wierd trivia about our staff members. Remember, the goal is to gain followers for our office's Twitter so it was shameless promotion on purpose.

24 Nov 09

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11 Nov 09

YouTube - The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

a great 30 min vid on the history and progression into our current narcissistic society and how youtube plays into the bigger picture

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- 7min - history of whatever
  8min - histroy of whatever - 1992 simposon say eh and melrose place, 2001 simpsons say m-e-h.
  9min - 1992 was start of reality TV
  10min - From Self-help parents to "I'm ok generation"
  10:30 - southpark click of "whatever I'll do what I want"
  Generation Me (they think their the next american idol and when their not they are disappointed)
  12:30 - people more focus on self, and fragmentation in society
  15:15 - 99.9% is irrelevant to you
  16min - remake of "charlie bit my finger"
  18min - analyzing how we are communicating through youtube
  21min - people were nervous not just about other people seeing the content, but also you looking at yourself later and criticizing
  23min - ppl are deeply reflective
  23:30 - "some of the comments on youtube make you weep for humanity..." - lev grossman - time magazine
  23:50 - anonymity+physical distance_rare@ephemeral dialogue = hatred as a public performance and also = freedom to exp humanity w/o fear and social anxiety
  27min - free hugs video calls him a hero of youtube culture
  29min - statement written on hand - ex of using platform to break down barriers
  30min - these are not statements of fact, but calls to action
  32:30 - debates were only viewed by 1% of population
  33:30 - hope to have a future of "i care" - on 2009-11-11
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22 Oct 09

Page 2: Why College Shouldn't Take Four Years: Lamar Alexander | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com

A look at why colleges are stuck in the past and an idea to fix it with a 3yr degree

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rom 2000 to 2006, total state higher-education funding rose only 17.6 percent while average tuition at public four-year institutions went up 63.4 percent.
The main cause of declining state support was the runaway costs of Medicaid, which rose over the same period by 62.6 percent. And Congress is now considering a health-care reform bill that would shift even more Medicaid costs to the states.
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- rethinking the old way of doing things and questioning decades-old assumptions about what a college degree means.
- Judson College, a 350-student institution in Alabama, has offered students a three-year option for 40 years.
- One of five students arrives at college today with Advanced Placement credits
- it deprives students of the luxury of time to roam intellectually.
- Compressing everything into three years also leaves less time for growing up, engaging in extracurricular activities, and studying abroad.
- Most Waldorf students wanted the full four-year experience—academically, socially, and athletically
- open campuses year-round.
- requiring one mandatory summer session for every student in four years—as Dartmouth College does—would improve his institution's bottom line by $10 million to $15 million
- universities are, like the automakers, slowly realizing that to stay competitive and relevant they must adapt to a rapidly changing world.

12 Oct 09

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09 Oct 09

YouTube - Storytelling Theory and Practice

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08 Oct 09

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Transcript for #edchat - What the Hashtag?!

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best book on student engaging. "strategic reading" by wilhelm, baker & dube
good book: The Art of Engagement #edchat

07 Oct 09

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05 Oct 09

M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree

MIT uses a group of student bloggers to engage potential Highschool students. Article also talks about + and - of using student blogging.

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Dozens of colleges — including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Vassar, Wellesley and Yale — are embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful marketing tool for high school students, who these days are less interested in official messages and statistics than in first-hand narratives and direct interaction with current students.
“M.I.T. is the closest you can get to living in the Internet,”
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- “M.I.T. is the closest you can get to living in the Internet,”
- Not every admissions office has been so ready to welcome uncensored student writing.
- A lot of people in admissions have not been eager for bloggers, mostly based on fears that we can’t control what people are saying,
- plans to add bloggers this spring to help admitted students hear about campus life. “We’re learning, slowly, that this is how the world works, especially for high school students.”
- M.I.T.’s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to four hours a week, offer thoughts on anything that might interest a prospective student.
- Posting untouched student writing — and comments reacting to that writing — does carry some risks. Boring, sloppily written posts do nothing to burnish an institutional image, college admissions officials say, and there is always the possibility of an inflammatory or wildly negative posting.
- Pomona has considered having student bloggers, but so far has felt that the risks outweigh the benefits, said Art Rodriguez, senior associate dean of admissions.
- “Blogs can certainly help humanize the process,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “The flip side is that a few anxious high school students may think and worry too much about what someone wrote on their blog, and present themselves in a slightly different way than who they really are. And there’s always the concern about the political ramifications, that bloggers may open up an issue or topic that starts something negative.”
- “There’s no better way for students to learn about a college than from other students.”
- “For me they painted a picture of what life would be like here, and that was part of why I wanted to come.”
- We saw very quickly that prospective students were engaging with each other and building their own community,
- The bloggers are sought out as celebrities during the annual “Meet the Bloggers” session at Campus Preview Weekend.
- M.I.T. chooses its bloggers through a contest,

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04 Oct 09

M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree - The New York Times

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Large universities changing freshman experience

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first-year students increasingly live and learn in small groups with those who share similar interests
Nearly one-third of Missouri's 5,620 first-year students participate in freshmen interest groups, or FIGs
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- They share rooms with each other, or entire sections of residential housing. They take four courses together, making the oversized auditoriums "psychologically smaller," as one university official says.
- "It's an immediate connection," said Matt Hibbard, a junior peer adviser and former interest group participant. "You build really strong relationships right off the bat."
- FIG participants have higher grade-point averages and graduation rates, school statistics show.
- South Carolina gets credit for launching the idea, creating its University 101 course for new students 36 years ago.
- "Residence halls are not just places for students to eat, flop and make love," said John Gardner, executive director of the Policy Center on the First Year of College and one of the creators of the landmark South Carolina program. "These are places where students can learn. You want to take control of that environment."
- Students who participate in such programs are less likely to drop out and more likely to graduate, Gardner said.

30 Sep 09

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25 Sep 09

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