"TECH Dozens" -- HBCUs' Sunday Magazine -- Week Ending 9/27/14

Last update: Sunday 9/28/14 @ 2:45 pm

This week's cover = Photo from DLL Storify of HBCU 2014 conference 

... Other top stories ==> Urban Tech Weekend conference  ... and Apple yanks iOS 8

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and related issues ... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 9/27/14 @ 9 am ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Events

DLL Storify of NewME Accelerator's Twitter Chat with Jonathon Gosier" on Friday 9/26/14

Last update: Saturday 9/26/14 @ 1:32 pm 

NewMe Accelerator hosts a regular series of Twitter chats with founders of startup firms. This week's guest was Jonathon Gosier @jongos, serial tech entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist.

Eventifier for Archiving/Curating Conferences, Workshops, etc

Last update: Sunday 9/28/14 @ 1:51 pm

There's a new app in town for archiving/curating events. It's called "Eventifier" and it might run Storify out of town real fast if it were a freebie; but it isn't. ... at this time ... Like Storify, free access is provided to the Webpages that @Eventifier generates that capture the tweets, photos, and Facebook Likes that are associated with an event. But after a limited trial period, the producers of each event must pay a monthly fee to keep the Webpages for their event on display.

To get an idea of how Eventifier works, consider the Eventifier Webpage for the Urban Tech Weekend conference in Houston TX (Septemter 2014) ==> HERE. As you will see, Eventifier provides an attractive user interface. The embed version, found below, is more compact.

DLL Storify of Harlem Business Innovation Summit -- Tuesday 9/23/14

Last update: Wednesday 9/24/14 @ 9:27 am

The Harlem Business Alliance (HBA) hosted its 11th annual innovation summit at the Schomburg Center on Tuesday 9/23/14. Its theme was "Disrupt Harlem: One Entrepreneur at a Time." The meetup was moderated by Kimberly Foster. She was joined by panelists Julia Collins, Adarsh Alphons, Bruce Lincoln and Clayton Banks, Errol King, and Aaron Saunders.

DLL Editor's Note -- Errol King, co-founder of Hidden Level Games, was interviewed by @NewMeAccel on 9/14/14 in a Twitter chat whose DLL Storify is found ==> HERE

DLL Storify of @Innov8tivmag's Twitter Chat on Tuesday 9/23/14

Last update: Tuesday 9/23/14 @ 11:59 pm EST

@Innov8tivmag, together with @IBOMLLC and @NBITLO, hosted their third Twitter Chat this afternoon in preparation for the upcoming Urban Tech Weekend in Houston TX. Below find the DLL's storify of this insightful conversation. Some key participants included: @awestechchief and @ncofield @faruqh @BritFitzpatrick 

... DLL Editor's Note -- Their first Twitter Chat on 8/26/14 was storified ==> HERE ... Their second on 9/2/14 was Storified ==> HERE ... Their third on 9/9/14 was Storified ==> HERE 

DLL Storify of HBCU Week Conference -- Day #2 ... Tuesday 9/23/14

Last update: Tuesday 9/23/14 @ 4:00 pm

The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) @whi_hbcus hosted its annual HBCU Week conference at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, DC. This year's theme was "HBCUs, Innovators for Future Success" ... DLL Editor's Note -- This storify includes tweets from attendees, including reporters from the media, e.g., the Chronicle's Eric Kelderman @etkeld and @HBCUDigest, @BOSS_eMAG

The DLL's Storify of Day #1 of @2014HBCUWeek is found ==> HERE

DLL Storify of HBCU Week Conference -- Day #1 ... Monday 9/22/14

Last update: Tuesday 9/23/14 @ 3:32 am

The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) @whi_hbcus hosted its annual HBCU Week conference at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington, DC. This year's theme was "HBCUs, Innovators for Future Success" ... DLL Editor's Note -- This storify includes tweets from attendees, including reporters from the media, e.g., the Chronicle's Eric Kelderman @etkeld, HBCU Digest, B.O.S.S. eMagazine

The DLL's Storify of Day #2 of @2014HBCUWeek is found  ==> HERE

"TECH Dozens" -- HBCUs' Sunday Magazine -- Week Ending 9/20/14

Last update: Sunday 9/21/14 @ 6:16 pm

This week's cover = Logos for Center for Excellence in Distance Learning, Launchpad for First HBCU MOOC... Other top stories ==> Alibaba's  IPO ... and Kapor Center's Investment in the Oakland Community

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and related issues ... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 9/20/14 @ 9 am ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Events

DLL Storify of the Black Enterprise "Corner Office" Twitter Chat -- Tuesday 9/16/14

Last update: Tuesday 9/16/14 @ 10:59 pm

As part of its ongoing series of "Corner Office" Twitter Chats with successful business leaders, Black Enterprise hosted a session today that featured Ms. Anie Akpe, co-founder of IBOM LLC and publisher of Innov8tiv magazine. The DLL's storify of this session is found below.

DLL Editor's Note & Apology -- Black Enterprise posed thought-provoking questions to Ms. Apke, to which she provided a set of well-crafted and highly insightful responses. However BE's questions and Ms. Akpe responses also triggered energetic commentaries from many of the "listeners" who tuned in to the Twitter Chat.  The resulting multithreaded conversation was sometimes confusing, but always exciting to follow.

However I suspect that many listeners shared my primary interest in what Ms. Apke had to say. Accordingly, the Storify on this page is a highly  simplified reconstruction of today's discussion. It focuses on Ms. Akpe's answers to BE's questions and on her direct responses to comments made by other listeners. All of the other tweets have been deleted.

I sincerely apologize to the participants whose substantial contributions were left on the "cutting room floor" ... and I commend them to the Storify on BE's Website because it will undoubtedly capture all of most stimulating comments within the multithreaded conversation that swirled around BE's questions and Ms. Akpe's responses ... :-)

"TECH Dozens" -- HBCUs' Sunday Magazine -- Week Ending 9/13/14

Last update: Sunday 9/14/14 @ 4:03 pm

This week's cover = Photo from tweets about Apple's Phone, Watch, and Pay ...

... Other top stories ==> EPA's research partnership with Hampton and Norfolk State  ... NewMe Acclerator's 1st PopUp At RevoltTV ... Intro Computer Science is largest class at Harvard ... and U.S. Govt. threatened Yahoo for user data

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and related issues ... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 9/13/14 @ 9 am ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Events

DLL Storify of NewME Accelerator's Twitter Chat with the Co-Founder of "Hidden Level Games" on Friday 9/13/14

Last update: Saturday 9/13/14 @ 7:46 pm 

NewMe Accelerator hosts a regular series of Twitter chats with founders of startup firms. This week's guest was Errol King @BetaTheRobot, co-founder and creative technologist of Hidden Level Games. Discussion focused on its "Beta" gaming platform.

DLL Storify of @Innov8tivmag's Twitter Chat on Tuesday 9/9/14

Last update: Tuesday 9/9/14 @ 2:40 pm EST

@Innov8tivmag, together with @IBOMLLC and @NBITLO, hosted their third Twitter Chat this afternoon in preparation for the upcoming Urban Tech Weekend in Houston TX. Below find the DLL's storify of this insightful conversation. Some key participants included: @awestechchief and @ncofield @faruqh @BritFitzpatrick ... DLL Editor's Note -- Their first Twitter Chat on 8/26/14 was storified ==> HERE ... Their second on 9/2/14 was Storified ==> HERE

@YesWeCode Twitter Chat on Sunday 9/7/14

Last update: Monday 9/9/14 @ 1:41 pm

@YesWeCode hosted its fifth Twitter Chat on Sunday evening 9/7/14 at 7 CST. The discussion was moderated by Uchechi Kalu @uchechi_writes. Her Storify is found ==> HERE

"TECH Dozens" -- HBCUs' Sunday Magazine -- Week Ending 9/6/14

Last updated: Sunday 9/7/14 @ 3:10 pm

This week's cover = White House photo from tweet about Megan Smith's Appointment as U.S. CTO 


... Other top stories ==> Xavier's Long-serving President to Retire in 2015 ... Samsung's pre-Apple Announcements ... and Google's $190K Donation to Black Girls Code

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and related issues ... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 8/6/14 @ 9 am ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Events

Academic Innovators as Community Organizers -- Part 3

Last update: Sunday 9/7/14 @ 2:33 am

Note to the reader -- Please read Part 1  and Part 2 before reading these pages.

III. Back to the Future

Recent surveys have repeatedly found that the primary reason why black students drop out of college is their inability to continue paying for tuition and living expenses as these expenses continued to rise during the aftermath of the Great Recession. 

Academic Innovators as Community Organizers -- Part 2

Last update: Saturday 9/6/14 @ 3:16 pm

Note to the reader -- Please read Part 1 before reading these pages.

II. Marketing and Recruitment ==> Strategic Partnership ==> Pearson PLC
As the other pieces fell into place, there was no denying that the university's strained finances could not support the kind of multimillion dollar marketing and recruitment campaigns required to launch a comprehensive array of online degree and certificate programs. We needed a strategic partner who could invest the substantial funds required for the launch in exchange for a negotiated share of the subsequent tuition revenue.

DLL Storify of @Innov8tivmag's Twitter Chat on Tuesday 9/2/14

Last update: Tuesday 9/2/14 @ 2:42 pm EST

@Innov8tivmag, together with @IBOMLLC and @NBITLO, hosted their second Twitter Chat this afternoon in preparation for the upcoming Urban Tech Weekend in Houston TX. Below find the DLL's storify of this insightful conversation. Some key participants included: @awestechchief @kaidup @kimberlyn_evans @cupasaki @anjuan @janelmwrites ... DLL Editor's Note -- Their first Twitter Chat on 8/26/14 was storified ==> HERE

Academic Innovators as Community Organizers -- Part I

Last updated: Monday 9/1/14 @ 8:36 am

DLL Editor's Note -- An earlier version of this article was posted in March 2014

Preface

These notes recommend that HBCUs produce online programs for off-campus students at a much faster pace. The author's recent experience as the planner/community organizer of a comprehensive online initiative launched by Howard University, the wealthiest HBCU, suggests that HBCUs cannot accelerate their production of online programs fast enough by acting alone, even if they receive substantial technical and financial support from a corporate partner. If HBCUS are to assume a leadership role in the development of online programs for the nation's black students, they will have to form strategic alliances with each other wherein they pool their limited resources and share the costs and tuition revenues derived from the online programs that they develop together.