Archive for the ‘ Social Networking ’ Category

Fall 2011 Facebook App for Financial Aid

What do you get when you smash Bill Clinton, a UNLV grad, MTV, Bill and Melinda Gates, College Board, and Facebook? No, not that. (It was my first guess, too.)[ READ MORE ]

CourseSmart Research Reveals College Students Lerve Their Digital Devices

The findings further reveal that students are completely dependent on technologies—eReaders, Smartphones, laptops and more—to get through their daily college routine. Nearly all of the students surveyed (98%) own a digital device. And 38% of students surveyed said that they could not go more than 10 minutes without checking in with their tech device—about the same amount of time it takes to walk to class[ READ MORE ]

Twitter Learns Surgeons Up Right

According to my favorite tech nerd, Jane Hart, Twitter is a viable learning tool for surgeons[ READ MORE ]

When Nursing Students Skip Ethics Class

Have we not learned this particular life lesson yet? The combination of Facebook and photography is one of the most treacherous of our time[ READ MORE ]

Literacy: We’ve Still Got It (Re-Post)

I was never concerned as to whether or not today’s school-age kids were going to be considered fully functioning adults someday; anyone who can seemingly mind-meld with a (or a cell phone or anything gizmo-ish), understand it, and make it work is probably going to do just fine once they’re let loose on the world[ READ MORE ]

Teaching Privacy

Screwed anyone over publicly lately? Virally or plain old socially[ READ MORE ]

Great–Now We All Need Massage Therapy

Researchers analyzed 30,000 teens and the relationship between screen time (tv, video games, surfing the net, etc.) and the teens’ tendency toward experiencing routine backache and headaches. [ READ MORE ]

Free Anti-Virus LinkScanner for College Students

One more reason to be paranoid and mistrusting: virus-writing bastards who want to send their flying monkeys out to the ether and into your helpless, naïve little computer, wrecking college, career, and any hope of a happy future for you and your currently non-existent spouse and children. [ READ MORE ]

MBA Job Market: Outlook and Advice

In the interest of acquiring the motivational energy required for pursuing a business career in this economy, I would advise first nailing down the minimum wage job most capable of making you loathe yourself and every sunrise you witness. [ READ MORE ]

Michael Wesch: TED Talk On Media and Teaching Students to Become Knowledge-Able

Watch it. It takes about 15 minutes; that’s less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee. And no way one cup of caffeine will blow your mind like Michael Wesch can[ READ MORE ]