Daily Archives: May 7, 2010

The 50 Best Schools Using Social Media

We wanted to reprise a popular and tremendously helpful list compiled by collegesurfing.com earlier this year. During the Winter Olympics, the site decided to award honors to the 50 best schools using social media. While the list could be reordered, the overall quality of social …

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8 Million Students Now Use Google Apps and E-mail: Find Out Which Schools Have Gone Google

From the Google Blog: With school almost out for summer, things are hitting a frenzied end-of-year pace in classrooms; and life is similarly fast-paced for the Google’s Apps for Education team as we work with the schools adopting Google Apps in increasing numbers. Today we’ve …

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Campus Compliments: Video Turns Altruism Into Growing Franchise

It’s exam time and students are feeling a bit more stressed out than usual. To relieve some of that stress, sometimes all it takes is a good ol’ fashioned compliment. A pair of Purdue students have taken it upon themselves to voluntarily offer up hundreds …

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Online Kindergarten Classes? New Site Uses Viral Videos To Teach

Online classes are all the rage. Both for-profit and non-profit schools have embraced technology as a means to recruit students from all over the world at minimal expense. But these are colleges and universities. What if you could watch your kindergarten or second grade class …

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