Higher Education

"Eureqa is a software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Its primary goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data. Eureqa is free to download and use. Below you will find the program download, video tutorial, user forum, and other and reference materials." - Fulaan, inna Hebel from Bookmarklet

cool - winckel

"I learned about Creately, an online diagramming application, from a short Lifehacker post two months ago. I immediately bookmarked that post as a reminder to write about it for ProfHacker readers, as I think one could easily use Creately in the classroom just as many of us use Google Docs and all the other Google tools. [In fact, if I were a betting person, I'd put money on Google buying Creately at some point.]" - Fulaan, inna Hebel from Bookmarklet

btw, awesome blog to follow. - Fulaan, inna Hebel

Maxamad, thanks so much for link! That is an awesome blog -- just spent 20 minutes reading through the GTD posts. Good stuff! - Mickey Schafer

This is a supercool pres sharing one district's experience implementing some great technology. Could be helpful for those looking for how to implement district level change. - Holly Rae, FFer from Bookmarklet

"Week 9: Net Pedagogy George Siemens on Nov 8th 2009 Week 9 is a conference week, focusing on Net Pedagogy. This will be a great opportunity to reflect on how social networks and networked technology impact how we teach and learn. We’ve lined up five excellent speakers for the week:" - Holly Rae, FFer from Bookmarklet

"MIT economists find a new reason to think that environment, not innate ability, determines how well girls do in math class" - Fulaan, inna Hebel from Bookmarklet

Ellison's paper in question: http://econ-www.mit.edu/files... - Fulaan, inna Hebel

"Is the glass half empty or half full?" - Fulaan, inna Hebel from Bookmarklet

As support for the findings on who socializes with whom, my favorite conversation from this past summer was overhearing a Black girl share with a White girl information she had just discovered: "BG -- You White? Really, Girl, you breakin' my heart." "WG -- Didjya think I was Hispanic or somethin'?" "BG -- Somethin', yeah, but not White. [draws word out with scorn][pauses, then shrugs] But that's okay. You're alright." - Mickey Schafer

Hey, FriendFeeders! I'm new at this one, but loved how Holly was able to make comments on our presentation at NM-TIE. I'm an educational technologist at NMSU Carlsbad and have been a computer geek for about 25 years now. Love technology and love teaching online. I teach computer science and marketing classes online. :) Looking forward to meeting you all! - Lorie Mitchell

Yay! - Holly Rae, FFer

FF for education!!! - Holly Rae, FFer from Bookmarklet

"Butler University has sued an undergraduate student for making libelous and defamatory statements about administrators on a blog he kept anonymously." - Holly Rae, FFer from Bookmarklet

Kudos to the Up Close Team!!! - Holly Rae, FFer from Bookmarklet

"The admissions office at The College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, for example, has a strict “Do Not Friend” policy, not only for its admissions officers, but also for tour guides, greeters and alumni interviewers. “No good can come of this,” Ann Bowe McDermott, the director of admissions at Holy Cross, told me, when I asked her about the wisdom of a high school senior reaching out, via Facebook, to a college representative whom he or she might have met on campus or at a high school." - Holly Rae, FFer from Bookmarklet

Anyone aware of universities currently doing something like this? I'm curious to its results. - Matt

"Higher education traffics in reputations. To thrive as an institution means keeping up with competitors while setting yourself apart. But as good as colleges have become at building brands, the game is shifting to social media, where there is perpetual motion and little control." - Adam from Bookmarklet

I enjoyed reading this and it was also cool to see UNM's very awesome Flickr site included. One comment I have is that the use of social media tools in higher ed as a marketing tool alone is not as powerful as the use of same tools to support and retain students - helping them to become successful. Building reputation through quality? it seems like the marketing part would then take care of itself. Yes, I have an ed background as opposed to a business one so I may be missing something here. ;-) - Holly Rae, FFer