We also noted the already very gentrified neighborhood has experienced some swank-a-fication. Everything is moving towards minimalist hipster cool.
10:09:43 PM   []

A database-driven, dynamic website that accepts text, graphics, video, audio, photographs and animation to document a student's learning and experiential history in defined areas. These ePortfolios can be available on-line or in DVD form.

I thought, lame, and stopped reading. John didn't, and today pointed out this quote from further down:

He's guessing that it will be "three or four years, five to be conservative" before the tool is routinely available across campus.

9:46:34 PM   []

As job opportunities shrank in recent years, so did salaries. For example, in Santa Clara County, home to Palo Alto and Stanford University, the average salary fell to $63,000 in 2002, the most recent year with statistics available, down from $76,300 in 2000, according to the Labor Department.

...It's odd but I don't know anyone with offers/going to the Valley (or New York) but tons of people are headed to Seattle.
1:54:01 PM   []

Our school lives in the dark ages:

The problem with the "laptop for everyone" model is that the proliferation of individually owned personal computers diminishes the utility of the rest of the network and computing environment thanks to the neverending barrage of attempted and successful hacking. Then we have to spend significant amounts of our scarce time dealing with infected Microsoft boxes. And that's why the firewall rules were enacted. [Emphasis mine].

In the very near future everyone on campus will have a laptop. To resist the proliferation of empowering end users is short sighted and detrimental to the long term technological prowess of our campus.
1:42:13 PM   []