Pithy statement

A free (yes rare but found here) article in The Chronicle exhorts educators to first determine what it is they want students to be, then apply technology to help attain that goal. Within the article, the author refers to a quote found in the New Science Center at John Carroll University:

“Technology has given you a power of inquiry greater than thinking individuals have ever possessed. Not to use it would be like not breathing.”

I may make that phrase the theme of this site.

Some Tech Policy Sausage making

A colleague of mine is pointing his direct reports to a web site, established the Commission for a New Georgia, which contains working papers, goals, and other statements in support of Governor Perdue’s vision for Georgia, its government and the education systems.

More on the transition

I have a blog at Radio where I developed a category on blogs and education — lots of work initially went into that effort and now I need to “pull” the work out, clean it up, and put some focus to continue to understand how higher education can use blogs, rss, wikis, and other tools to meet the challenges of education in this century.

What I have to resist is the temptation to dump technology matters here that don’t pertain directly to education.

Libraries, Computers and Students, Oh my!

The picture above was taken by a colleague of mine who is responsible for library services across the Unversity System of Georgia. Seems Tech students can’t get enough services…

Opening a new place

Just got the keys to this property. Will explain more the purpose later. The banner needs to change, and need to transport some furniture over from another property. But, hey, it’s a beginning

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