2009 August » Eric Stoller’s Blog

Link spammer targets higher education sites

I received the following comment on my blog a couple weeks ago:
“Yeah blogging is really a great way to help people. Great job. I salute you for doing such a great job. ”

The comment felt like it was spam. The post that was commented on was almost a year old and the comment […]

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Indian Hills Community College

I attended Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) in Ottumwa, Iowa from 1995 to 1997. During my time at IHCC I joined the jazz band, played my trombone for the pep band and signed up for my first email account with Hotmail. It was a phenomenally developmental period in my life. My IHCC academic advisor, […]

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OACADA: technology + student success

( This and that and Higher Education and Technology )

I will be giving the keynote speech for the Oklahoma ACademic ADvising Association (OACADA) Fall Conference in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma next month. The conference theme is “Using Technology to Navigate Student Success” and I think that it provides a terrific continuation to the academic advising technology conversations that came out of the NACADA Technology […]

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NACADA ‘09 Conference hashtag

( This and that and Higher Education and Technology )

One of the most successful components of the NACADA Technology Seminar was the use of Twitter amongst the seminar attendees. Every tweet for the event was tagged with this hashtag: #nacadatech09. The hashtag allowed us to aggregate all tagged tweets into the NACADA Tech website via a widget from monitter.com.
This year, due to a […]

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Tim Wise and Larry Wilmore

( This and that and Race and Social Justice and Video )

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Tim Wise and Don Lemon break down “white racial resentment / white racial paranoia” that is occurring at town hall meetings and the inflammatory rhetoric (e.g. comparing Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler) spewing out of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchannan et al.

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OSU football video fail

( This and that and Video )

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“I am the last thing they see before the lights go out.
I am the enforcer.
I am a giant killer.
I am Orange.”
I am not orange if this […]

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Glenn Beck - disingenuous idiocy

( This and that and Race and Social Justice )

If a certain family member wonders why I stopped reading their blog, it is due to their defense of (and site link to) Glenn Beck. Rather than engage in a fruitless back-and-forth (like last time when my life experience was called into question), I will simply post these recent videos. Glenn Beck’s rhetoric is […]

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