Category Archives: college

Open Content Curriculum

As part of one of my grad courses I have to blog about education. This week I tackle open content in the classroom. You can read about it here if you are so inclined.

Utilizing open content in the classroom demonstrates a dynamic shift in education. Expensive textbooks cannot compete with minimal cost content sources that are continuously updated, corrected and improved upon. Rather than rely on a monolithic textbook source for information, open content communities rely on member research and exptertise.

We Now Resume Your Regular Broadcast

The site went down for about a week and a half.

Just as I was ready to manually fix the issue plaguing my website the hard drive in my iMac completely died. It was replaced by Apple for free, but my latest backup was from two months ago. It took a whole day to get back up to speed on that.

Then students started moving in at UW-Whitewater and I was occupied all weekend. Oh, yeah I work for UW-Whitewater now as a ResNet Technical Support Analyst. It’ll pay for grad school while Kaela and I are here for the next two years.

I finally had time tonight to get the database reconfigured. There are some other minor things to reset, but that can wait. Expect more photos of tacos in the near future.

Graduation Present

Those little packets of peanut butter that Smucker’s makes? Love them. I eat them straight from the package. If they are set out on a brunch table you best check my pockets. I call the little 0.75 oz. packets “PB-Shooters.” In celebration for (finally) graduating from college, Kaela bought me a bulk package of 200 direct from Smucker’s. Awesome.

Book Your Vacation at Lake Oshkosh

No Parking

When I came into work this morning I realized that I forgot my scuba gear. The past few days’ persistent rains have brought copious amounts of water. UW – Oshkosh’s River Center, along with a couple of dorms residence halls have significant water damage. Our entire Maintenance workshop is under several feet of water. I have several pictures of our loading dock area in a Flickr photoset.  

Charts and Graphs

In the January 22, 2008 issue of The Advance Titan, Oshkosh’s college newsrag, the “Busted!” section reported a dearth of alcohol related incidents. I have compiled a handy chart to help you digest the stats. Bear in mind that the BAC statistics are merely the ones that were reported and that there are more with alcohol involvement who received citations. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Oshkosh BAC Levels

Confession Time

Right now there is a trade show going on called CES 2008 where electronics manufacturers show off all of there latest wares. Coverage has been blanketing the interblogs and telescreens with the latest and greatest in tech geekery. The tech blog Gizmodo has recently come clean about a prank they’ve pulled at the show. Demonstrators show-wide could not figure out why their screens where just randomly turning off. Wall after wall of tv-aided sales pitches suddenly went dark. You can’t help but giggle. The editors for the blog were using a product called TV-B-Gone. I too may have used this product in the past. Mwahahaha….