Celeste Baine, who did Recruiting Women into Technology Programs webinar last month, her new book, Engineers Make a Difference, has just been released.
Here is her email that I just received:
If you are interested in outreach - recruiting and retaining students in engineering or technology careers, this is the book for you.
Tom McGlew of MATEC was […]
Maggieh added this really good resource to our digital library the other day, entitled: Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students. This article was written by Ruth Reynard and published in Campus Technology.
Maggieh’s desrciption is as follows:
Ruth Reynard’s article in Campus Technology provides helpful guidelines for properly directing the […]
Here is the last of our series of conversations with Celeste Baine.
How did you get started?
The Engineering Education Service Center (EESC) began in 1998 as Bonamy Publishing when I wrote my first book, “Is There an Engineer Inside You?” The inspiration for the book was constructed from my struggles in engineering school. I […]
In preperation for this Friday’s webinar, I asked Celeste Baine a few questions that I will share over the next few days.
Why is it difficult to get women into technical programs?
Technology programs tend to attract the brightest students. The advantage for these students is that, because they are so bright, they can go into many […]
I am getting ready for the NetWorks free webinar Transferring Knowledge to the New Style of Learning: Extending the Classroom Beyond the Four Walls with Karl Kapp on this Friday, September 26. Karl is a great presenter and an expert on this topic. Karl is also a prolific blogger, check out his blog if you […]
The second to final report on Games Our Children Play is out on the web right now. It reports about the new game called Spore . Spore is a creation game as compared to a destruction game. Findings are that girls rather play creation games then destruction games (which boy obviously like). […]
I watched the CBS Evening News Games Our Children Play segment and was very happy with it. CBS cites the study Teens, Video Games, and Civics, that says “97% of children play video games and 65% play with others.” For tonight’s epsiode, Connie Yowell of Pew/Internet Research says that games are, “social” and […]
The CBS Evening News will be looking at games kids play on the computer and consoles and will report their findings today, Wednesday, and Thursday. I hope the media’s report doesn’t portray computer games as all bad, but have read books like Karl Kapp’s book and actually talk to people with knoweldge about games […]
I am excited about our upcoming free webinar, Transferring Knowledge to the New Style of Learning: Extending the Classroom Beyond the Four Walls with Karl Kapp on September 26. Karl is the author of
Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools and Techniques for Transferring Know-How from Boomers to Gamers. This book is […]
Tomorrow we are going to have a free webinar on Sustaining Technical Programs. Throughout the years technical programs have been hit hard by low enrollement, lack of interest, etc. This webinar will address some of the issues.
From administrators, to faculty, to students, the issue of sustaining technical programs is one of the most […]
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