This weekend I attended a free one-day Higher Education conference put on by two fabulous women, Renee Hirschberg and Lori Ioannone, from Boston University’s School of Education. The program was chock-full of great speakers and interesting insights into the emerging challenges and opportunities in our field. I took enough notes at the conference to write [...]
by Kathryn Magura I had a hard time trying to figure out what app to highlight for this post. We’ve already covered Instagram and I probably shouldn’t tell you how terrible I am at Draw Something, so I thought I’d go the more practical route: Kindle! That’s right, there is a Kindle app! Why would [...]
by Jennifer Keegin I follow Maria Popova (@brainpicker) on Twitter. She is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings. She writes for WiredUK, The Atlantic, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Design Observer, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She recently answered the question: “What are the first five websites you visit every [...]
As Kristen noted recently, it’s April. If you’re in Student Affairs (well, or higher ed at all), you know what that means. So it will come as no surprise to y’all that I am super wicked behind on my blog reading. Luckily, I have clever Facebook friends who read interesting things — so here is [...]
by Meghann Martinez Lately there’s been a lot of talk about innovation in education and what that means. Working with technology it is common for colleagues to look to technology to perform the work of “innovation” and “cutting edge”. What is innovation and what does it mean to be innovative? Innovate: to make changes, to [...]
