Imagine a professor, let’s call her S., who is retiring from her university after a distinguished 35 years in the profession. She has just come from the wine and cheese party in her honor at the department. On the way to the real party at a colleague’s house in the quainter section of town, she [...]
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June 6, 2007
A Second Life first at SUNY’s Conference on Instructional Technologies?
Every year, my office sponsors the Conference on Instructional Technologies, one of SUNY’s largest conferences. This year almost 600 of us met on the campus of SUNY Plattsburgh way up there on Lake Champlain near the Canadian border.
[And let me take this chance to thank the staff at Plattsburgh and President John Ettling for their [...]
April 12, 2007
SUNY & The Web: Connecting the castles
The loaded question of the day is one right out of The Dating Game (or match.com): What do the World Wide Web and SUNY have in common, and what can they do for each other? (OK, that’s two questions.)
SUNY’s own website makes our first cut at an answer obvious: SUNY is already a Web.
SUNY’s 64 [...]
April 6, 2007
Second Life for the Levin Institute?
Today I had a conference call with leaders from the Levin Institute, SUNY’s newest school in New York City. Organized by Lynne Rosansky, Vice-Provost, her goal was to introduce Levin to Second Life, see if there was potential .
The Levin Institute was created by a bequest of the family of Neil D. Levin, Executive Director [...]
