Archive for April, 2008
The Online Campus Tour
As I’m sure I don’t need to remind the admissions professionals out there, the campus tour is one of the key components of the college visit. It gives students the opportunity to really experience your campus, to take in the flavor of the surroundings.
I remember taking many a campus tour when I was doing my [...]
Season Your Passwords with some Salt
Let’s say you’re building a big new web app at your institution. One of the parts of this application will be storing usernames and passwords. There are a ton of ways to do this, but today I want to share with you one way that I do things, in the hopes of making my logins [...]
Jott – the next killer higher ed web app?
Ok, I’m late on the Jott bandwagon, I know, but I tried out the service today and it’s got me thinking about how we can use Jott in higher ed.
What’s Jott? Jott is, at its core, a speech to text transcription service. You call into Jott and leave yourself, or anyone you set up as [...]
