By John Warner. The recent ruling by the Chicago office of the National Labor Relations Board granting Northwestern University football players the right to unionize begins the process of peeling back the convenient fiction that Division I football players are “student athletes,” and are instead, something more like employees. The core of the ruling is that Northwestern players perform work (training for and playing football) for pay, which means they should have the right to unionize and bargain collectively. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. This weekend I installed a Nest thermostat in my home. 
You know Nest. The company that Google recently bought for $3.2 billion. The company that was started by former Apple folks who had previously worked on the iPod and iPhone. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. What are your technology blind spots?
Here is my top 5 list of shame:
Blind Spot #1: Letting Amazon Control My Reading Life
I think that I may have sold my reading soul to Jeff Bezos. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. How long will it take until my edtech skills are out of date?
This is a question that I’ve been asking myself since I transitioned to a new, more strategic role at my institution.
No longer am I part of a team that is making the decision about which technologies, platforms, and services to purchase. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. This time I will finally defeat e-mail.
I’m determined that e-mail will no longer run my life, define my days, suck dry my time.
Every other previous attempt to get out of e-mail jail has failed. This time I will succeed. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. This morning, like most mornings, I put on a tie and went to work.
Do you wear a tie (or the equivalent of a tie) to campus? 
Sartorial choices are not new topics of discussion in our community.  See here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The difference in this post is that I have no clothing advice for you. Read more...