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BlogAbroad Auditions are open!

Posted by admin on December 13th, 2006

http://blogabroad.com/audition.html
Schools, send this along to your students.  It’s a great way to get them involved in the study abroad community, help other students decide on whether to study abroad or not, and earn $500 bucks!
Blogging has been proved to be a perfect way to communicate and share thoughts, ideas, and experiences.    Our BlogAbroad project has […]

Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging

Posted by admin on November 29th, 2006

A great NY Times article came out and it talks about the use of blogs in higher education. I recently did a presentation for the Access Group, which I’ll be posting more of (and posting the actual powerpoint), but here is a great article to see why you would use a blog at […]

Why Technology in Higher Ed is important

Posted by Drew Olanoff on November 2nd, 2006

Or….”What I did this summer”
Everyone knows about web 2.0. You’ve heard us talk about how web 2.0 is sharing, community, communication, information gathering. But some folks aren’t sold yet. Hey, I completely understand. A lot of the time, you’re a 2 or 3 (or sometimes 1, eek!) […]

Podcamp wrapup

Posted by admin on September 18th, 2006

The podcamp conference was a huge huge success. The medium (audio and video on the web) got a big boost by this conference. A lot of stars were at this thing. Amanda Congdon, Steve Garfield, C.C. Chapman, Andrew Baron and Joanne Colan (from Rocketboom), as well as many other […]

Podcamp

Posted by Drew Olanoff on September 6th, 2006

Hey Everyone.
Some interesting things are going on. I’ll be attending the podcamp conference this weekend, it should be really awesome. A bunch of podcasting and video blogging geeks will be hanging out and talking shop. I can’t wait! I’ll be going with a few folks from EDU, […]

The BlogAbroad Train Rolls On

Posted by Drew Olanoff on August 23rd, 2006

We’re back at it again people. The original Study Abroad reality show is back for yet another season. BlogAbroad season 4 has launched today and it’s going to be an awesome one!
As always, we have four great college students blogging about their experiences studying in other countries.
This season, there is:
Joe […]

eduWebConference wrap-up

Posted by Drew Olanoff on August 7th, 2006

Last weeks eduWebConference was an interesting event. I’ve been to many technology conferences, and many higher ed conferences, but this was the first one I’ve attended that really attempted to marry the two together. I think they did an OK job. The group was a mix of web […]

eduWeb conference - Search Engine Session

Posted by admin on July 31st, 2006

I’m blogging for collegewebeditor.com at the eduWeb conference in beautiful inner harbor Baltimore and thought I would re-post my session notes:
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During the lunch roundtables, I had the pleasure to sit down with Shelly Brown, the Director of Web Services at Southwest Baptist University. Among those attending were my friends from the Vermont Law […]

Can you digg it?

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 26th, 2006

Digg is a site that a lot of you might not know about, but will soon learn to rely on. I’ll give a basic description of what it is and how to use it. It’s very simple actually.
A user (you) submits a piece of news (by way of link and summary) […]

BlogAbroad is on Fiyah

Posted by Drew Olanoff on July 25th, 2006

Wow. When we started BlogAbroad 2 years ago, we had no idea what it would grow to be. In the 3 seasons that we’ve done this, we’ve had a blogger in Rome during the Pope’s passing, a Philly girl in Japan, and many many amazing stories about studying in another country.
We’ve […]