:-) Turns 25!

I can't resist sharing this headline from CNN today: :-) Turns 25! You can read the article at http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/18/emoticon.anniversary.ap/index.html Can it really be 25 years since the emoticon language has been around? Okay -- maybe I'm not as much of an immigrant as I think I am.... Lois

Technology in Higher Education

One of the blogs that I've decided to follow is one that looks at technology issues in the context of higher education -- which is the arena in which I work. For a number of years, one of the hot topic issues has been Information Literacy -- getting college students to evaluate the quality of the information they use from all the medium sources. You might find some of the newest search engine modifications of interest in this blog posting http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/2007/09/info-lit-pre-college-via-local.html which also raises questions about how much K-12 students should be learning about being good consumers of information! ...still the digital immigrant...Lois