I am at the OACAC conference and will be facilitating discussions are web 2.0 and college admissions. Luckingly, over at MASHABLE, Vadim Lavrusik has a great article exploring how universities are using social netwrking: Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of [...]
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smcelroy has written 213 articles so far, you can find them below.
Own your facebook
Twitter and myspace always allowed you to have a real name. Facebook, on the other hand, just assigned you a number. How big brother of them. For a long while there was speculation that facebook would let you boy your vanity URL, but surprise surprise, they let you pick your own for FREE–and you can [...]
Kindle U: The birth of the etext?
Amazon launches the Kindle DX today jumping into the higher ed textbook market with much fanfare. With 6 well selected partners, Princeton, UVA, PACE,Arizona State, Case Western Reserve, and, Reed, higher ed pundits should be jumping up and down. Apparently the kindle Dx is not yet fully baked. Although resleased you cannot actually get one. [...]
LiveBlogging: Scott McCloud
“I am just a little guy walking back and forth.” Scott McCloud is giving a speech to our school. We have fourth and fifth graders in with seniors. Very cool. He and his family wandered all around USA, UK, Spain and some cities in Canada. he makes his living making comics…and speaking. He is using [...]
Moving on? Get a head start on the language
Last night I was over at friends as they started gearing up for their next move to Mali. As we queeried them on the country, history, attractions and languages, it occurred to me that it was time to update the list I post from time to time about using your ipod to learn languages. Well [...]
Facebook in real life: Creepy, yet brilliant
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Burden of Proof? Facebook expulsion
It is on his facebook, so he wrote it, right? He should be held accountable if it is lewd or inflammatory, right? He has violated his college’s code of conduct, so he should be punished, correct? But what if he says he did not write it? A Calvin College student refuses to apologize for a [...]
inauguration , hope and technology
It has all changed. 15 and half million views of a homage of a meshup that appeared on youtube that did as much to boost Obama’s profile early in the election . This is a web 2.0 government, looking for a real discussion: “Your stories and your ideas can help change the future of the [...]
Backlash growing on using web 2.0 technologies at uni
“The university is being called on to produce knowledge as never before … and it is also being called upon to transmit knowledge to an unprecedented proportion of the population.” Absorb that statement for a monet, before I reveal that it was not written last week or last year. It was written before I was [...]
inauguration , hope and technology
It has all changed. 15 and half million views of a homage of a meshup that appeared on youtube that did as much to boost Obama’s profile early in the election . This is a web 2.0 government, looking for a real discussion: “Your stories and your ideas can help change the future of the [...]
