Colleges Using TargetX CRM

TargetX CRM Article
Brian Niles, the President of TargetX claims that you are able to get a complete picture of your college applicants. He says what kids post on Facebook and Twitter is most complete and authentic view of their interests, but i think that is absolute Bull*&@#. MOst of the time what kids post is 100% wrong because on these social media websites you are able to say anything without a problem. Also, I think this is unfair for the students because most of the time their pictures were uploaded by their friends and they have no control over it.

Leeland, Michigan Is Following the Footsteps of BHS

Over the summer our high school, Burlington High School, received ipads for each of the 1,200 students. We were required to come to school for about an hour to set up the ipad and then they were ours. We have them until graduation and insurance was an option. After a few weeks, you could tell that breaking them was an issue and many students have had to order new ones only for fifty dollars, which is the deductible. Now, another school in Michigan, Leeland High School has received 1,800 ipads for their students and this is just the start. The school is deciding to trust some elementary kids also by giving a tablet to all students grades 3-12. They use these ipads for all school needs such as homework, classwork, testing, and communication in hope that education will improve.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-09-20/schools-education-ipad-students/50480836/1

Watch carefully, one of the Chicago Bears' players pretended to call for a fair catch as part of the play....watch for yourself to see what happens

World of Web 2.0

In Web 2.0 class we spend a lot of time exploring the web and blogging about videos that we watched. We are finishing up our project, which our job was to make out our version of "A Vision of Students Today". We took the video in the history hall of our high school and it took some hard wokr. We ad to survey our school, condense our facts, the write up a script to shoot our film. We start in an outdated classroom, and end up in our brand new Mac Lab, but all the good stuff happens in between so I guess you will just have to wait for the finished product.