Higher Ed Social

Episode 75 is an exciting chat with Wesley Hough (like tough!), 5th year graduate student in the PhD of Mathematics program at the University of Kentucky. Wesley also works as a Teaching Assistant, teaching Calculus II for Life Sciences. We chat about the structure of his department considering he teaches science students but is studying for a degree in math. He is working on his dissertation and explains it well enough for Jackie and Lougan to understand. We also talk about job searches - Wesley is planning to apply to close to 85 jobs across the US - and a very interesting number.

Links to cool stuff

* Wesley's Website

* Paul Erdős

* The Erdős Number

Episode 74 welcomes Paul Gilzow, Apps Developer from the University of Missouri, who Jackie and Lougan recently spent some in-person time with at the recent Higher Ed Web conference in Memphis, TN. Paul's presentation, "Access Denied: Keeping Yourself off an Attacker's Radar," was named best in track and best in conference. We chat about our conference takeaways, how physical distance can effect working teams, and the best places to get BBQ in Tennessee.

Links to cool stuff: 

* Red stapler presentations

* Beloit's video

* Jackie's interpretation of her relationship with Admissions

 

Paul's Red Staplers have no staples

HighEdWeb 2016 starts this weekend!  We've been busy working on our poster presentation and haven't been able to record this week or last. In the mean time, check out this awesome episode with Tonya and Colleen.

Episode 64 is so big, we brought on two guests! We talk with Tonya Oaks-Smith, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications at Henderson State University, and Colleen Brennan-Barry Assistant Director of Marketing & Community Relations at Monroe Community College. Colleen serves as the President of Higher Education Web Professionals Association and Tonya serves as the Chair of the HighEdWeb National Conference, and have lots to talk about when it comes to the upcoming conference! The HighEd Web gang will be heading to Memphis, TN in October, and we talk about food, fun, sessions, learning, and an exciting keynote announcement that nearly kills Lougan.

 

Links to cool stuff: 

* Colleen & Tonya on Twitter

* High Ed Web Conference Website

* Tamp & Tap in Memphis

* Charles Vergos' Rendezvous (and its HOGS fly not PIGS fly)

* Kim Bryant (keynote speaker) on Twitter

In episode 73, we chat with Daniel Shelnutt, Academic Advisor at the University of Southern Florida, College of Arts and Sciences. Even though he doesn't live there anymore, we chat about the North Carolina area, where both Daniel and Lougan have lived at different times. Jackie was excited to watch the Buffalo Bills win the night of the recording, and Lougan scores some points by not mentioning "sportsball" at all! Daniel's birthday is just around the corner, and he shares his plans for turning the big 3-0, and we close the show with Daniel's explanation of the class he is teaching this semester.

 

Links to cool stuff

* Daniel on Twitter

* Beauty and the Beast video

* Beloit's Mindset List

In episode 72 we finally connect with Rebecca Stapley, Assistant Director of Multimedia and PR at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY. Both Lougan and Rebecca come from an admissions background, and we spend a lot of time chatting about everything they've learned from the two departments. With the semester in full swing for everyone, we talk abut how to handle all our projects, but take time for ourselves. The weather is changing, as Jackie and Rebecca start to feel the fall while it still feels like summer over in Lougan's neck of the woods. We also share our strategies on hiring and utilizing our student workers and volunteers as best we can.

Links to cool stuff: 

Rebecca on Twitter

iPhone Meme

Lougan's Timelapse from Move-In Day

Episode 71 features Matt Brinton, the Associate Director of Alumni Relations at the University of Northern Colorado. We begin our discussion with a talk about Welcome Week activities at our respective institutions and the organization of our offices on campus. Matt is a Ph.D. candidate, and we discuss his new course on technology in education which has been in development since 2014. Finally, we talk about how Matt is trying new things when marketing to his alumni.

Links to Cool Stuff

* Matt on Twitter

* Matt’s Course on Twitter #HESALtech

* Matt's Course Syllabus

We've made it to episode 70 with Ebru Kardan, Director of External Affairs and Communications at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. We first address exactly what that means, as higher ed titles tend to include a lot of extra words in job titles. There's some nerdiness in this podcast, in the form of Star Trek talk and Ebru's famous beer can cat. We also talk about Untappd and call out many past guests for the beers they were drinking at the time, and Jackie explains a class she'll be taking later this month.

Links to cool stuff

* Ebru on the Twitters

* Coors Light Cat with three, four and five cans.

* Dave Rothstein on Instagram

* Jackie on Untappd

* Ebru on Untappd

It's been a crazy week, so Jackie and Lougan decided to do a quick episode about what we've been up to. We've both received new job titles for the new academic year, and we're both hard at work gearing up for the new semester. We also talk about our goals for the year, Jackie's "reading" habits and Lougan's favorite video game of all time Persona 4.

Episode 69 is with Dave Eng, Director of Student Activities at St. Thomas Aquinas College, and Doctoral Candidate at Northeastern University. Dave is studying games, gamification, and game-based learning, which fuels most of the conversation. Dave talks about gamification in our lives, such as earning steps and beating your friends with FitBits, getting candy with Waze, and of course Pokemon GO. During the time of recording, Dave was preparing to head to a gamification conference, which leads to a nerdy discussion teaching Jackie everything she needs to know.

Links to cool stuff: 

* Dave on SA Collective

* Lougan on SA Collective

* Jackie on SA Collective

* Skidmore Podcast

* GLS Conference

* Dave's Blog

This week, Jackie had the chance to be a guest on Marketing Live, part of the Higher Ed Live network. She chatted live with Amy Jorgensen about Pinterest and what colleges can do with the platform. She'll be presenting the same topic in Memphis at the Higher Ed Web conference, and Lougan and Jackie will be tag teaming on a poster there about this very podcast!

Watch the recorded video on HigherEdLive.com