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What I Learned in Jail
"Are we going to do collage?" asked a large man in a blue jumpsuit and day-glo orange tennis shoes.
"No, I don't think we'll be doing any collage, at least not for now, Bob. Sorry."
It was the first day of my first class at the local county jail. I'd signed on as a volunteer graphic design instructor, and I knew there would be challenges. But putting a 290-pound student in a deep funk within the first five minutes of class was a bad start.
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My Report Card for 2012
A year ago, I set out my resolutions for 2012. Here’s my report card.
What I said I would do: Write more. Use both blogging and twitter as a part of my overall leadership and communication strategy for the IT organization I lead at the University of Georgia.
What actually happened: My performance was inconsistent; sometimes I would write a new blog each week and tweet daily, but in some months – not much happened at all....
Professional Development and Higher Education IT
When it comes to the importance of professional development, the EDUCAUSE community has spoken. In the 2012 edition of The Top-Ten Issues in Higher Education IT, members identified “Updating IT professionals’ skills and roles to accommodate emerging technologies and changing IT management and service delivery models” as the number one issue facing their institutions today....
The Role of Campus Leadership in Ensuring IT Accessibility
“Everyone should have an opportunity to participate in higher education.”
With those words, Michael K. Young, President of the University of Washington, opens a new video from his institution’s AccessComputing Project, IT Accessibility: What Campus Leaders Have to Say. Developed with support from the National...
Why I’m Looking Forward to EDUCAUSE Next Week
Next week is the annual EDUCAUSE conference, with this year’s event returning to the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. Attending the annual EDUCAUSE event remains one of the highlights of my fall semester. Here are some of the things I am looking forward to next week.
- Giving something back. The EDUCAUSE events provide each of us the opportunity to give back some of that special knowledge and experience that we have developed over the past year. We are...
Inspiration: Where to Find It?
"Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it." – Bob Dylan
As we work to reinvent, reimagine and tinker with the born-digital EDUCAUSE Review Online, we’ve been looking for inspiration and insight in places deemed as exemplars in digital magazine publishing- sites such as the Harvard Business Review, National Geographic, and...
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