After interviewing Fred Stutzman for my UB column about social networking websites, I invited him to present the first session of Social Networking Websites Week, the 5-webinar series I designed for Higher Ed Experts: October 1st, 2007 1PM-2PM ET Visa for MySpace and Facebook: do’s and don’t’s for higher ed institutions exploring the new social […]
Archive for the ‘Current Students’ Category
Higher Ed TV: “College Scene Investigation” from USC Aiken, a great way to promote student life activities
It looks like The University of South Carolina Aiken has given the keys to some of its current students to produce a very good series of YouTube videos. I don’t plan to attend college soon, but I got hooked watching the first 4 episodes of “CSI at USC Aiken” – aka College Scene Investigation – […]
Have you heard about College Off-The-Record Blogs? You will soon
If you didn’t like Doug Imbruce’s first venture into student blogging, you won’t probably like this second one either. What is the OTR Blog Network? It’s a privately-funded venture actively recruiting bloggers and associate editors via its website currently available in Beta Written by students, for students, each O.T.R. blog covers a specific college campus. […]
June 2007 University Business column: “A Second Life for Higher Education?”
My third UB column for 2007 is now available in the June issue as well as online: “A Second Life for Higher Education?” If you are a University Business reader who has just discovered collegewebeditor.com, welcome! Don’t forget to subscribe to this blog via RSS or email. If you have any questions or feedback about […]
Straight from flickr to uvic.ca: The University of Victoria features student photos selected by a panel of faculty members on its website homepage
I’m currently doing some research for an upcoming feature article to be published in the Canadian publication, University Affairs, which explains why I’ve spent some quality time lately with the websites of a few Canadian institutions. As I was looking for contact information, I noticed a photo at the bottom of the right column of […]
Higher Ed TV: “We are Virginia Tech” and “What does it mean to be a Hokie” from Bryce Carter, VT student and blogger
For “Hokie Hope,” an alumni-led declaration of a national “Orange and Maroon Effect” day, I added a few touch of maroon to this blog’s emblematic orange (removed after April 20). As regular readers know, I started to review higher ed YouTube videos a few months ago. Before the Virginia Tech Tragedy, the university had started […]
UAB puts a human face on research with its Antarctica 2.0 website
Spring might be upon us, but some folks at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have really their mind more focused on ice, snow and Web 2.0. To promote their research team’s expedition at Palmer Station Antarctica, they launched, earlier this month, a dedicated website called “UAB in Antarctica” that uses a lot of Web […]
Ask your questions to Diane Oblinger, co-editor of “Educating the Net Generation,” today at 2PM ET
Have you read “Educating the Net Generation,” a free PDF e-book published by Educause? In the post I wrote about it 2 years ago, I mentioned that this collection of essays published by Educause would help spread the word that Web 101 wasn’t enough anymore in colleges and universities. In other words, it was a […]
Are Australian freshmen really digital natives?
Georgina Hibberd, the soul of Templatedata, is back from her blog hiatus and writes about a very interesting study done the University of Melbourne in Australia: First year students’ experience with technology: are they really digital natives? This study of 2000 students was conducted in March 2006, during the first two weeks of their first […]
Find out more about your prospective and current students: Meet “Generation Next”
Even if we cross their path everyday on campus, it’s sometimes easy to forget what makes our college students tick. I’m currently doing a bit of digging for a project of mine and thought I would share with you three interesting resources about young adults: USA Today Generation Next Index I’ve seen a lot of […]
Could Bowdoin College have found an efficient and cost-effective solution to the student portal problem?
Many universities and colleges have poured a lot of money into very expensive but not always very efficient web portals. Portals were supposed to be the technical solution to all communication problems on campus by becoming the start page of students’ internet browsers. Problem is most of them are still underused due to their poor […]
YouTube got facebooked? YouTube launches a new “private” channel for college students
Just saw the news on Sam Jackson‘s blog (who reads religiously TechCrunch, so you don’t have to ;-) YouTube has just launched a “private” channel dedicated to college videos indexed by institutions. “Want to see the highlights of last weekend’s game (or last night’s party)? It’s easier than ever to share videos with friends at […]
College Blogs Network: unofficial, unfiltered – yet good – student blogging
I know, I know: another post about student blogging. Will I ever get tired to blog about this? ;-) As regular readers know, my last column for University Business deals with the ROI of admission-sponsored student blogs. While more and more institutions have set up blogs targeted to prospective students and their parents, they are […]
Higher Ed Web Developers, Get Ready to Code: Facebook API released!
As you know, about 110% of our students use Facebook, the social networking website targeted to college students. Students use it all the time and include a lot of information (sometimes too much) about themselves in their profiles. Facebook released its API – its development platform – in beta earlier this week as announced on […]
Your students blog about your institution at TheU.com
Got student blogs on your admission website? Well, you might not be the only one… In the latest issue of his Higher Ed Marketing email newsletter, the consultant Bob Johnson reports a very interesting piece of information: “For a powerful lesson in the inability of colleges and universities to control the messages that are out […]
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