Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Open-Source Lecture Capture

 

This is an article on Inside HigherEd that gives a review of Matterhorn. An open source lecture capture software program.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/13/matterhorn

Eight Ways to Increase Social Presence in Your Online Classes

 

Social presence is an important concept in distance education. So, how can we increase social presence in online teaching? Here are some ideas for you to try.

This is an article written by Hong Wang.

Many of them are common sense but it always helps to look at new or different ideas.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Looking forward to swimming tonight

It has been a fun day at work today. Figured out a new process for the SafeAssign documents in Blackboard. Helped a few faculty with questions and helped with making sure a classroom will be ready for class tomorrow night.

LeTourneau Aviation posted a nice verse on their FB page today:

 

Proverbs 4:4 - 6 "Lay hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands and you will live. Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or swerve from them. Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you."

 

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A Beautiful Morning

I had a wonderful drive in to work this morning. Dr. xxxxx told me about a back route between xxx and xxx (don't want to give some crazy person my location). A nice little winding road that makes me think I am on the Nürburgring in Germany. Well, maybe not the real track but it is fun driving on it and is a nice distraction on my daily drive.

Starting to Blog Again

I think I have some technical glitches worked out and I am going to start blogging again.

Testing from Laptop

 

I am testing a post from Live on the laptop.

 

1 Peter 3:8“[Suffering for Doing Good] Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.”

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Monday, September 6, 2010

Why an MBA Is a Waste of Time and Money

This is an interesting take on MBA's. I have heard that a person will earn more money with a degree but they never tell a degree from where? Any degree does not always translate to a good paying job.

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