College for the Unemployed
Obama is my favorite person right now. This from Inside Higher Ed, College for the Unemployed: “‘The president also said that he would soon ‘lay out a fundamental rethinking of our job training,...
View ArticleCC/SL Job Posted
From the SLED List: I’m proud to announce that Prince William Sound Community College (in beautiful Valdez Alaska) has posted a 2 year IT position that will include technical coordination of our Second...
View ArticleTransforming America’s CC’s
Scout Report told me to tell you about: Transforming America’s Community Colleges: A Federal Policy Proposal to Expand Opportunity and Promote Economic Prosperity [pdf]...
View ArticleCollege of DuPage Island
After two long years, we finally have an island in Second Life to work on. We bought an existing island from the Alliance Library System. Those good librarians have been a wonderful support for us, and...
View ArticleiPhone App Overload? Never!
I love my beautiful iPhone and the ten million apps and games I have on it. Well, there’s about 10 apps and the rest are games. Buckingham Palace Mysteries, Bookworm, Yard Sale, bloons, Myst (which I...
View ArticleIT “help” for students
All IT staff who work with student systems need to take classes in how write directions. They simply bury the information the student needs in dense, dull text. So, the student is frustrated because...
View Article“books…gone into retreat”
One of my favorite technology blogs, Make Use Of, shocked me this morning with a post about book review websites. I had to read the introductory paragraph twice to make sure that this post wasn’t a...
View ArticleWhither the Community College Library?
In a recent article on csmonitor.com, community college librarian William Wisner (Laredo CC) chastises librarians and the library schools that produce them for whoring out to technology and abandoning...
View ArticleNo real research for you
California Community Colleges cut electronic resources budgets. Completely. 100%. No more databases for community colleges there. As Kenley notes, the state is looking at central brokering for the CC’s...
View ArticleI’m screwing around with my blog
…and that’s all I’m doing. Swear. I have decided that orange is now my (in public) signature color so I changed the theme. Well, pale pink is really the color of my heart and the color that makes me...
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