What happens when Jimmy Fallon goes on the Engadget Show with Joshua Topolsky…uber nerdery ensues:
If you are looking for the play button, it’s on the bottom right of the video. Hello UI…anyone?!
Category: This and that
Student Affairs + Jobs + RSS + Email
Conducting a successful student affairs job search requires patience, networking, and technology. That’s right, technology. One particular tech tool that is extremely useful for conducting a search is RSS. Job postings delivered to your feed reader via RSS means that new job announcements are efficiently delivered to your virtual doorstep.
If you aren’t familiar with using RSS, please watch this video for more information:
If you need an RSS feed reader, I would highly recommend using Google Reader:
There are a few student affairs websites that offer job postings via RSS feeds, including:
Remember to look for the RSS symbol – 
– or for a link to RSS data. Ideally, all student affairs job sites will offer RSS feeds in the near future as this makes conducting a search ultra-convenient.
An alternative to RSS feeds for job postings is the “Email Alert.” Several sites offer email alerts based on a variety of search queries. ACPA, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Placement Exchange, and the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium all offer student affairs job search updates via email alerts.
In addition to the RSS and Email solutions mentioned above, most student affairs associations / higher education news sites offer job listings on their websites. Here are direct links to the student affairs job listings for the following associations / resource sites.
Student Affairs jobs via professional associations:
- American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO)
- American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
- Association of College Unions International (ACUI)
- Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA)
- Consortium of Higher Education Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Professionals
- National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC)
- National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)
- National Association of College Auxiliary Services (NACAS)
- National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO)
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)
- The Placement Exchange (NASPA, ACUHO-I, NACA, NODA, ASCA and AFA)
Student Affairs jobs via higher education publications / job sites:
Academic Advising & Social Media
NACADA Tech in Advising Recommendations for Use of Online Social Communication in Academic Advising
The purpose of these recommendations is to provide guidance to Academic Advisors contemplating the inclusion of on-line social communication tools in their personal or programmatic advising design.
For the purposes of this discussion, Online Social Communications will be understood as externally hosted Web environments, sometimes referred to as Social Media Environments, in which information is aggregated, presented and shared. Further, where functionality exist, the environments allow you to document and filter connections between individuals, maintain profiles, support multimedia, and facilitate communication with a time shift supporting response at user-defined times. On-Line Social Communication environments include Facebook and other Online Social Networks, Twitter, YouTube, personal blogs and wiki pages. Since Facebook’s introduction in 2004, an ever-increasing number of advisors, student services specialists, academic units and universities have been leveraging the benefits of an on-line presence.
The expanding use of on-line social communication by advisors and advising offices, evidenced by numerous publications and presentations over the past five years, encouraged the NACADA Commission for Technology in Advising to proffer the following recommendations when considering inclusion of Social Communication tools in the delivery of advising information:
ACPA + Twitter on the BreakDrink podcast
The main topic for today’s BreakDrink podcast was the potential unification of ACPA and NASPA. ACPA President, Dr. Tom Jackson, Jr. was on the podcast to talk about his thought’s regarding the unification process.
I had asked a question on the BreakDrink blog in preparation for today’s conversation. Jeff Jackson, host of the show, asked my question about how/if Dr. Jackson had plans for using Twitter at next month’s ACPA Annual Convention. I decided to call in to the show and was able to use the Skype link on Blog Talk Radio to call into the show.
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I begin talking about the Social Media session that I’m co-presenting at ACPA 2010, Twitter, #ACPA10, the ACPA 2010 TweetUp, and #SAChat at about 28:25 in the podcast.
Please follow @ACPAPrez. Dr. Jackson readily agreed to use Twitter during the ACPA Annual Convention and I think that it would be great if he had a huge following of Student Affairs Twitterati.
NACADA Region 8 is on Twitter
The NACADA Technology Seminar at the NACADA Region 8 Conference resulted in a lot of Twitter activity. As the lead faculty at the technology seminar I was very pleased with the level of professional engagement that occurred on Twitter. Participants used Twitter hashtags (#NACADATech or #NACADAR8) to create a back channel of connectivity. It was inspiring to see so many of the technology seminar participants using their Twitter skills during the conference. Hundreds of NACADA-related tweets were generated!
Here are the top contributors:
#NACADATECH:
@ericstoller (24)
@oakvich (23)
@UOAdvDir (15)
@sally_garner (14)
@laurapasquini (13)
@mavet (7)
@yojpoj (5)
@OSUMary (4)
@tbump (4)
@dmmoos (3)
@OSU_UESP (3)
@stephaniehambli (3)
#NACADAR8:
@ericstoller (25)
@kurtxyst (23)
@cschwenn (15)
@oakvich (15)
@sally_garner (13)
@UOAdvDir (7)
@ReaAdvising (5)
@laurapasquini (3)
@OSU_UESP (3)
@AdvisorLoftis (2)
@BilOregon (2)
@carmenincalgary (2)
@OGPY (2)
PS: Thanks to Julie Meloni for providing me with the NACADA hashtag stats.
The Student Affairs Collaborative blog
The Student Affairs Collaborative blog is a popular multi-author Student Affairs site. The SA Blog, as it’s popularly referred to on Twitter, contains a lot of relevant student affairs reflections, polls and information from a variety of student affairs professionals. Yesterday, I was invited to be a member of the Student Affairs Collaborative blog. From now on, all of my posts that are tagged with “sachat” (short for Student Affairs Chat) will be auto-aggregated via RSS into the SA blog. This will be similar to how my current “higher-education” tagged posts get auto-magically posted to the Blog High Ed site.
Note, content repurposing via RSS will be a featured topic at the NACADA Technology Seminar in Seattle on January 24th.
eduFire SuperPass giveaway
Koichi, the Social Media Marketing Manager at eduFire and WordCamp PDX pal, recently sent me two free things: an eduFire t-shirt and a free month of eduFire SuperPass.
While I am definitely going to keep the t-shirt, I have decided to give the free month of eduFire SuperPass to a randomly selected commenter on this post.
All you have to do is post a comment. I will enter your name into a fancy random drawing Excel spreadsheet. Please note that commenting more than once will not increase your chance of winning the SuperPass. If you are a current eduFire student/instructor, I would love to read some user experience comments.
About eduFire:
What is eduFire?
eduFire is a community of people passionate about teaching and learning online. As a student you’ll find outstanding tutors from all around the world, all available at the click of a button. As a teacher you’ll be able to reach new students and teach from anywhere.What will be offered on eduFire?
Our offerings are broken into three categories: Languages, Exam Prep, and Other. Our most popular languages are Spanish, Italian, French, German, Mandarin and Japanese. However you can teach or learn any language on eduFire! So if you’re just dying to teach or learn Pig Latin you’ve come to the right spot. You’ll be able to browse a list of languages that are offered on eduFire. As far as Exam Prep, we’re really just getting started here, but we’ve got teachers in place for all the major exams with more to come. If there’s something else you’re looking for, try searching for it in the search bar, or e-mail one of our team members to see what we can do.
OSU furlough details
The official OSU furlough numbers have arrived…here is the monthly furlough breakdown for 9-month and 12-month employees:
| Monthly Base Salary Rate at 1.0 FTE* | Total Number of Furlough Days per Academic Year at 1.0 FTE** | Total Number of Furlough Days for 1/1/10 to 6/15/10 at 1.0 FTE** | Amount of Furlough Time Off Per Month for 1/1/10 to 6/30/10 at 1.0 FTE** |
|---|---|---|---|
| $2,450 or less | 3 days | 1.83 days | 2.66 hours |
| $2,451 to $3,105 | 4.5 days | 2.75 days | 4 hours |
| $3,106 to $5,733 | 5.25 days | 3.2 days | 4.66 hours |
| $5,734 to $8,333 | 6 days | 3.66 days | 5.32 hours |
| $8,334 to $10,934 | 7.5 days | 4.57 days | 6.65 hours |
| $10,935 and over | 9 days | 5.49 days | 7.98 hours |
| Monthly Base Salary Rate at 1.0 FTE* | Total Number of Furlough Days per Fiscal Year at 1.0 FTE ** | Total Number of Furlough Days for 1/1/10 to 6/30/10 at 1.0 FTE** | Amount of Furlough Time Off Per Month for 1/1/10 to 6/30/10 at 1.0 FTE** |
|---|---|---|---|
| $2,450 or less | 4 days | 2 days | 2.67 hours |
| $2,451 to $3,105 | 6 days | 3 days | 4 hours |
| $3,106 to $5,733 | 7 days | 3.5 days | 4.67 hours |
| $5,734 to $8,333 | 8 days | 4 days | 5.33 hours |
| $8,334 to $10,934 | 10 days | 5 days | 6.67 hours |
| $10,935 and over | 12 days | 6 days | 8 hours |
* Monthly base salary rate is derived by dividing the employee’s annual base salary rate by either 9 or 12 appointment basis.
** Furlough time off will be prorated for employees working less than 1.0 FTE.
via the Gazette-Times
ACPA + NASPA + Student Affairs Technology
ACPA recently sent out an email announcement calling for applications for the ACPA Technology Advisory Committee:
The ACPA Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) is a member-driven advisory committee charged by the Executive Director of ACPA with developing the association’s long term Information Technology strategic plan and evaluating and recommending technology initiatives aimed at furthering the association’s strategic initiatives. In addition, the TAC is tasked with evaluating large-scale IT project requests to determine their applicability to long- and short-term association goals and, when necessary, to priority rank IT initiatives.
The TAC description made me feel quite hopeful about the state of student affairs technology…and then I read the following:
“You don’t have to be a technology expert to apply. We are looking for committed ACPA members with an interest in technology who are not afraid to voice their thoughts.”
Why, oh why, does membership in the TAC, which will drive the long term information technology strategic plan for ACPA, not require that someone be a technology expert? How can you evaluate IT projects, further strategic initiatives, and recommend technologies if you are not an expert? Is ACPA saying that there are not student affairs practitioners who are technology experts?
Not to be outdone by the ACPA Technology Advisory Committee notice, NASPA Tech Tools recently posted a word-for-word copy of a 2 month-old article about Google Wave from the Chronicle of Higher Education without really attributing the article. The NASPA Tech Tools site was created to “bridge the gap between student affairs and technology.” Unfortunately, it seems like a chasm at the moment…
What is going on with the state of student affairs and technology? 3 years have passed since I last wrote about ACPA, NASPA, and technology and it’s hard to tell if anything substantial has happened.
Academic Advising + Technology
Excerpt from an interview that I just participated in…a few thoughts on technology and academic advising:
I have heard a number of advisors at conferences, who attend a session about technology in advising, and say something to the effect of This is nice, but how much time is this going to take up? I don’t have enough time as it is!” How do you answer that?
I really hope that we start redefining the paradigms of technology use in advising…it’s part of our toolkit, we need to embed a high level of use/competency in our positions.The time issue/question is interesting as it conflates increased technology use with decreased amounts of time. I always say that technology and its use actually increases our time…makes us better connected, more efficient, etc. It’s that initial learning curve that people confuse as time wasting when it is really just a small part of increasing their overall time. Folks in our profession (academic advising) seem to have been conditioned that learning new technology is somehow a burden or something that is “in addition” to the norm…we really need to re-define this or our future is not looking very good.