Archive for February, 2008

Kentucky getting people back to school? February 13, 2008 No Comments

The State of Kentucky is instituting a program to get people who have completed some college credit to come back to school and finish their degrees. The program, Project Graduate, is offering incentives such as improved registration/advising processes, some financial aid, professional development for faculty who teach adults and gearing course schedules to accomodate working [...]

Community Colleges SL Group meetings! February 10, 2008 No Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } CCSL Mentoring Session, originally uploaded by notmarian. So I started this group called “Community Colleges in SL” (CCSL) within Second Life. It now has over 100 members and is growing by [...]

Imagination Cubed No Comments

Here’s something nifty! This tool, brought to us by our friends at GE, allows the user to make animations using a variety of tools. Students could use this to express themselves or one could sit a child down in front of it for hours of free time. I just used the Stamp and Text tools [...]

Google Docs with Forms–Be still my heart! February 9, 2008 No Comments

Google docs now has a share option where you can select a form. So, you share your spreadsheet, make up your questions or whatever you need people to fill in on the spreadsheet, then all of the responses to your form are recorded on the spreadsheet. Brill!

First Posts are sort of awkward… No Comments

I am a librarian with a life-long love of community college education. So, in my blog you will find a lot of my posts are about community colleges.  You will also find information about Community Colleges in Second Life, my most recent passion.  The College at which I am most fortuitously employed recently granted me [...]