Assessing impact is very important if you are an instructor or assessing a NSF project. Last week I was lucky enough to attend a Evaua|t|e workshop on Assessing with Joellen Killion, of the National Staff Development Council, as the presenter. It was an excellent workshop and I learned a lot. One of the take aways I […]
We are already one month into 2010 and a groundhog has told us that there will be six more weeks of winter. I find it amazing that with satallites, and computers, and all of our technology advances, that we still rely on a groundhog, that we have to usually pull from his hibernation, to tell […]
Things are NetWorks are really busy. I am working on the library and checking each resource the library has. 78 down, 1300 more to go. Plus I hosted the NACK webinar last Friday on Introduction to Nano-characterization, and have an eSyst implementation webinar on Microprocessors. You can catch the NACK webinar recording here, and you […]
Today the Learning in 3D blog tour stops here at TechSpectives!
Karl Kapp and Tony O’Driscoll’s book, Learning in 3D, has come at a great time for me. Our Advance Technology Center is writing a grant – and part of the grant is a student portal in a VIE. While I do not think I can get my […]
Alright, last week I teased about one of a few announcements on the projects that I am working on. I was going to tease about having a special guest on our blog - but let me just give you the information so that you can follow along. Next week, on the 19, we will have […]
This was the first week of the new years! There are a lot of changes with the two programs that I am with. In fact, one of my projects has changed - unfortunately, I will not be project manager on the MATEC side for the NACK project. There are three projects that need 150% of my time: […]
It is that time of year when all tech junkies begin to droll and wait to see what manufacturers are going to display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. It starts tomorrow and you can bet I will be watching the news for cool gadget announcements. So far rumors of Apple Tablet, a Microsoft Tablet, […]
This installment of our @matec newsletter article ”Education Challenges in the 21st Century”, inspired by Cathleen Barton’s presentation at the HI-TEC 2009 event, focuses on Grand Challenges as identified by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE Committee on Engineering’s Grand Challenges has identified 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century. This critical grouping […]
The lexicon of the world changes regularly. One thing I stress to my students that when they are writing that they be careful not to use slang in their work. Slang can be cutural, generational, even regional. Remember when the word bad actualy meant bad? And then it changed to good, back to bad for a […]
One thing I dislike about my solar panels is the amount of dust that can collect on them. Especially after 90 days of no rain at my house. Dust is going to accumulate no matter where you live - but in Arizona, where there can be no long stretches of rain, the dust build up […]
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