Tag: georgia


  • Dumbfounded By The Numbers

    Chancellor Eroll B. Davis Jr told the Georgia Board of Regents, “We grew essentially by a large university.” The USG gained 10,077 students (my alma mater has ~11,000) in a year. They calculate these fall term to fall term. In the same fall term to fall term time period, in the same same university system,…

  • The Valdosta State Blazers have another shot at the Football Division II National Championship. This is an impressive feat for new coach David Dean who replaced Chris Hatcher. Chris defected to Georgia Southern to coach I-AA. I hope they win. I’ll be watching the game at home. Game is at noon on ESPN2. Or drive…

  • PLEs reflect the needs of a student information gatherer. VLEs (aka LMSs) reflect the classroom and institution online. (PLEs vs VLEs) Blackboard Vista is a VLE. Its competitors are all VLEs. Vista is the worst VLE of them all as its designed to host multiple institutions in one site. The GeorgiaVIEW project takes the VLE…

  • The Age of Enlightenment ended over a century ago. It was known for producing a number of intellectuals. Are intellectuals a dying breed? According to Wikipedia, “An intellectual is one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate, or ask and answer questions about a wide variety of different ideas.”…

  • links for 2007-11-22

    Photos taken in Georgia on Flickr! (tags: Georgia flickr) Photos taken in Athens on Flickr! (tags: Athens_GA flickr) Race, Class, and the Choice of Social-Networking Sites – Chronicle.com (tags: facebook myspace social)

  • Since restaurants get sued for not paying royalties for public performances of copyrighted music, it seems likely playing a song at an athletic event is a public performance. I wonder how much the UGA Athletics or just UGA pays ASCAP for the ability to do this? Certainly, its not academic use. 🙂 Youuuuuuu – Red…

  • links for 2007-11-11

    dcbahai.org – Home (tags: Bahá’í webdesign) SF Bahai (tags: Bahá’í webdesign) Calgary Baha’i – Home (tags: Bahá’í webdesign) Photojojo » De-Pixelize Your Photos Instantly with VectorMagic (tags: photography) Regression testing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: software testing programming) Unicon Assists Georgia Tech with Transition to Open Source Sakai from Proprietary Learning Management System |…

  • Its interesting… Rob of Blue Sunbelt is using one of my photos to represent Georgia. It is one of my favorite photos of Grassy Pond near the Georgia-Florida border. My first thought was actually, “There is non-commercial use for Creative Commons. Why not a non-political use?” Not that it would have helped. This particular photo…

  • Today I received an email announcing new certification courses from Blackboard. Every administrator around our system did as well. We have a large body of certified trainers and administrators with multiple individuals at every campus who have been through the certification plus all the functional support have been through both training and admin certification. I’m…