The following is a draft slice of an upcoming curriculum supplement I am writing for Bedford / St. Martin's press. I will be using the blog to post chunks of the supplement and open up discussions on the topics...
If you have ever attended a conference with us, you know we enjoy mixing stuff up through the use of Flashmobs and Blender Events, both of which stem from our Dance Floor Theory Leadership Training...
Last spring, I was traveling on a public bus from Laguardia Airport in New York to my hotel on the north side of Manhattan. When I got on the bus at the airport, the bus driver was in a heated argument with someone complaining about being charged twice for the ride...
(This is a cross post from the Student Affairs Blog) "We shape our tools and then our tools shape us." - Marshall McLuhan You've probably heard the term "Web 2.0." The idea was that the changes in how the internet worked over the last 8 years were profound enough to warrant a whole new version....
Whether educational institutions like it or not, education is changing and walled gardens are evaporating. New ideas in education are emerging...or, probably better to say, old ideas are finally able to be technologically implemented...
The Bystander Effect is a well-known psychological study conducted by Bibb Latane and John Darley that grew out of the stabbing death of Kitty Genovese in 1964 while eyewitnesses looked on but did nothing to help...
Digitally ignorant parents find themselves once again the punchline of a new website dutifully called MyParentsJoinedFacebook.com. The site was created by a daughter after her dad joined Facebook and his social networking activity quickly became obnoxious to her...
In the first version of Red Rover's navigation bar, we included a 'Live Help' button (pictured below) that generated 5-8 sessions with students per day.As more students joined Red Rover, we realized the 'Help' section needed to include more options other than just 'Live Help'...
Two weeks ago, I asked my Facebook followers if they'd post differently knowing that 60% of employers search the web when considering potential employees...
In 1969, famed psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a social experiment looking at the contagiousness of engagement. Wired magazine's Jonah Lehrer accurately summarizes the experiment:In this study, Milgram had "confederates" stop on a busy city street and look upwards at the sky...
John Jay College of Criminal Justice was reviewing a number of different social tools, trying to figure out where they wanted to invest their time and money. They asked me to help clarify how they fit together...
There are many group/campus text messaging companies that offer an array of services for a fee, but if you are just looking to communicate with a group via text, then Twitter might be your best free option...
The goal of our project is to build a tool that all schools can use to create learning networks for all students. We're working with schools of all shapes and sizes; all across the spectrum of technological savviness. The system connects students using tags, or keywords...
In college, I tried to start an Entrepreneur Club, but never got past the paperwork. The Student Activities office manager handed me three pages of clearly defined step-by-step guidelines she created on how to start a new group...
Two overlapping foundational concepts for this post: 1) Hierarchy Matters In his best lecture submission to "Big Ideas," Mark Fournier opens by stating he will convince the audience that hierarchy formation in humans is natural, predictable and consequential: ...
