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Pilfered design + code

This came first: Brown University

Then this showed up: The University of Alabama in Huntsville

“The copyright for this material rests with Pentagram Inc and Brown University. You may not alter this information, repost or sell it without prior permission.”
Umm. I don’t think that the University of Alabama in Huntsville got the message. Jump to […]

Technology and Student Affairs

iStudentAffairs.com: A social networking site for Student Affairs administrators. 661 people have already signed up. The site runs off of Ning. I’m not sure if I have the life space for another website, but the discussions on iStudentAffairs.com have been interesting.
Technology panel: I’ll be on a panel for Academic Advising + Web 2.0 at […]

Web statistics

My addiction to web site statistics continues unabated…although is has been quite a while since I posted about my site’s web analytics.

Site traffic has increased every month since I started keeping data on ericstoller.com web visits and pageviews.

Tags: blogging, eric stoller, Misc. Technology, technology, web analytics, web statistics

Borrowing design ideas?

I was surfing the web today in search of good examples of university/college web designs for an upcoming proposal. I had a two-pronged plan. Step one, visit sites for schools that I was already familiar with as well as viewing sites from the colleges of OSU. Step two, visit edustyle for a sampling of […]

VectorMagic

VectorMagic is super cool! “This site converts bitmap images to vector art - it’s an online auto-tracer.” The sample image of a bitmap version of the Stanford logo to a vector version is amazing!

Tags: graphics, Misc. Technology, technology

A Vision of Students Today

via Digital Ethnography and the always hackable: A Collage of Citations.
This video was created by myself and the 200 students enrolled in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007. It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, what they need to learn for their future, and […]

Minor mac mistake musing

I made my first minor (some might call it “major”) Mac mistake last Thursday. I was traveling to Washington, DC for a client meeting/presentation/training via the Portland Airport (PDX). Wednesday night I had packed my MacBook Pro, power brick, headphones, iPod, and wireless mouse.

The shuttle to PDX departed at 4 A.M. We had just […]

Blackboard Community System

Blackboard had an amazing booth at the NASPA/ACPA Joint Meeting in Orlando. It was the size of small house and it looked like one too! Inside their mini-mansion, the folks from Blackboard were demoing their portal solution, the Blackboard Community System.

My first question to the Blackboard representative, upon seeing that the demo utilized frames, […]

Strategic Student Affairs Technology planning

The Division of Student Affairs at NC State University engage in strategic student affairs technology planning. There site includes downloadable technology planning checklists, technology position responsibility documents, technology planning overview and an overview of the student affairs division technology plan.

The folks at NC State might not be the first student affairs administrators to […]

Enrollment Management update 3/1/07

Enroll-A-Tron 3042:
In what appears to be the first viral video aimed at Enrollment Management Directors / Admissions Directors, Frank Meester debuts the “Enroll-A-Tron 3042.” The device is
guaranteed to help enrollment management professionals recruit and retain students at an amazing 100% retention rate. The video is pretty funny and it will be interesting to see […]