This was a technology keynote given to student affairs professionals by Kevin Prentiss of Swift Kick and Red Rover.
Theme of the speech was a "do more with less" approach. Getting your students connected and successful includes encouraging public blogging by your best role models.
This was part two of a two part speech.
Z Score,T Score, Percential Rank and Box Plot Graph
APCA Las Vegas '09 Tech Keynote
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2. To Do List.
1.Subscribe to www.thesablog.com
2. Sign up to write (Optional)
3. Subscribe to http://blog.swiftkickonline.com
4. Encourage or mandate blogging by groups, student
leaders, or campus activities members.
5. Publicize the students’ blogs.
6. Give each of your groups a wiki.
3. 1. Context: This is about transforming lives.
2. Be Extraordinary: This is success, not survival.
3. Whatever you can implement, implement. Leave
the rest.
4. I’m done in 38 minutes. (Then conversation.)
4. “The time has come
for some far reaching
changes to the university,
9. we need to listen to
these
Net Generation
students to see
the way forward.”
10. we need to listen to
these
Net Generation
students to see
the way forward.”
Dr. Luis M. Proenza, President, University of Akron
As quoted in “grown up digital” by Don Tapscott
17. Lessons from Andy:
1. Your best (3%) students already use all of these tools
2. These students want to help
3. As a resource, Andy is wasted by his university
(he had to go global to find an audience)
18. . . . but your school has non-traditional students.
31. To Do List.
1.Subscribe to www.thesablog.com
2. Sign up to write (Optional)
3. Subscribe to http://blog.swiftkickonline.com
4. Encourage or mandate blogging by groups, student
leaders, or campus activities members.
5. Publicize the students’ blogs.
6. Give each of your groups a wiki.
41. Comfort: Find People Like You
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First year students try to connect with other new students via Facebook
groups, but group “wall” posts are full of questions and few answers.
42. Connection: Join the College Community
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Students often can't make sense of their institution’s many websites,
and information is difficult to keep up to date.
43. Contribution: Give to the Community
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There is no central place to share with the college community,
so the best work is lost online or buried in private class forums.
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25%
of students will drop
out in their first year.*
Contribution Connection
Connection
Comfort *According to American College Testing
46. “The major cause of student attrition [is] the
inability of students to make the transition to
college and become incorporated into the
institution's ongoing social and intellectual life.”
-Dr. Vincent Tinto,
Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition.
Second Edition.
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47. We can do better.
(With a new web tool and the necessary support.)
48. Your
EDU
A Single Web Based Tool:
Helping students
1. Find people like them
2. Create and join groups, connect to
mentors
3. Contribute to the college community
Contribution
And helping colleges
4. Track, assess, advise and
Connection
support the process
Comfort
49. Comfort: Find People Like You
2 minutes to sign up
See interest matches
(in year, major, and residence hall)
50. Connection: Join the College Community
Receive recommendations
for student groups
(based on matching interests)
Join groups with one click
(clubs recruit automatically)
52. Contribution: Give to the Community
Class College
Club/ Org Major
e.g. College 101
Automatically share content you create online with
any of your groups or with the entire college
53. Assessment: Support and Advise
A live dashboard shows student activity
and highlights support needs.
54. Assessment: Support and Advise
A live dashboard shows student activity
and highlights support needs.
Ashley Wilson
volunteering
Lauren Brooks
Scott Thorpe
Javier Hall
Shatisha Rollins
55. Assessment: Support and Advise
A live dashboard shows student activity
and highlights support needs.
Ashley Wilson
volunteering
Lauren Brooks
Scott Thorpe
Javier Hall
Shatisha Rollins
56. Timeline: Your College with Red Rover
Students:
• Share their online content
• Meet peers in their • Find and join groups
• Find campus mentors • Contribute to community
major and residence hall
College:
• Facilitate connections • Assess and encourage • Teach effective use of tools
• Measure interaction student leaders & mentors • Create community culture
58. The 2009 software
will be made available to a
few select colleges.
To discuss participation in either
the software or an integrated package
of training and software,
please email kevin@redroverhq.com.
Notas del editor
A well known academic researcher on retention, reinforcing the idea that the connection into social life matters.
Who is doing what. What does the school need to do to make it work.
Who is doing what. What does the school need to do to make it work.
Who is doing what. What does the school need to do to make it work.
Starting in Jan ’09, going through the year and beyond.