Category: The Future
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AACC 2017 Review: I found people who would fight for the hope of me"
I found people who would fight for the hope of me. -Wes Moore, AACC 2017 Opening Keynote I personally had a really great AACC meeting for the following reasons: Wes Moore’s keynote and the quote above set the tone for me. I think he nailed it. That is what community colleges do. They fight for…
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RCCA Keynote 2016: Never Rest on Your Technology Laurels: Community College Trends for the Future
Never Rest on Your Technology Laurels: Community College Trends for the Future is a look at issues which will impact the deployment of technology at the rural community college. Thanks to the Rural Community College Alliance and Dr. Randy Smith for allowing me to share my thoughts on this topic as the closing keynote address…
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The Mouse is Watching You
I always feel like somebody’s watching me -Rockwell Keeping up with all of the new technology coming at us is a difficult if not impossible task. If you watch this blog you know that I have been privileged to attend some amazing events and participate in some amazing activities which has helped me keep up…
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The High Cost of the High Cost of Higher Education
Future discussion of President Obama’s proposal for free community college will be ugly whether you support the idea or not. It’s how our political system seems to operate. Personally, I will be watching as I don’t yet know enough to say whether or not I support any specific proposal although I do generally agree with…
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Why Higher Ed must change and how IT can help
There are truly monster sized challenges in effectively delivering quality technology services in higher education. The size of the monsters small schools are facing are smaller than the larger institutions, but proportionally the threat is the same. We really need each other and we need options…and we need to understand Dragons. Why do we need…
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Why IT Departments need a 12 year old on staff
In the later part of the summer in 2012 Google replaced Gmail video chat with Google+ Hangouts. “Unlike the old video chat, which was based on peer-to-peer technology, Hangouts utilize the power of Google’s network to deliver higher reliability and enhanced quality,” explains Gmail team blog post. At Casper College we have been using…
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Are You Ready for the Digital Dark Age?
Data Storage and the Digital Dark Age “Back when information was hard to copy people valued the copies and took care of them. Now, copies are so common as to be considered worthless, and very little attention is given to preserving them over the long term. “(Brandt, 2003) —-Danny Hillis It is a valid concern…
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Are you Ready for the Zettabyte?
NOTE: I have really enjoyed discussing techy stuff with our new Casper College librarian Brad Matthies since he arrived at Casper College and asked him to add his 2 cents to this blog post. He contributed some really great stuff related to the Digital Dark Age section of this post and greatly reduced the…
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What makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education
NOTE: I adapted this work from a Tech Planning Model from a Law Firm for use in an education setting. The link broke where I referenced this and I haven’t yet found it again. If someone sees something similar let me know as the core idea certainly isn’t mine. Working as chair of the technology…