Wireless and Windows 2008 Server

You have to install Wireless LAN Feature under Server Manager to get a wireless card to work with Windows Server 2008.

You get to this feature by using Server Manager, Features, Add Features.

Open and Free Courses

The success of Linux has spawned free and open courseware movement. I have several links that might be helpful.

Carnegie Mellon University

Open Educational Resources

Hype Cycle

This is a very interesting way to look at technology from Gartner. Here is a quick summary:

What are the 5 phases of a Hype Cycle?


1. "Technology Trigger"
The first phase of a Hype Cycle is the "technology trigger" or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest.

2. "Peak of Inflated Expectations"
In the next phase, a frenzy of publicity typically generates over-enthusiasm and unrealistic expectations. There may be some successful applications of a technology, but there are typically more failures.

3. "Trough of Disillusionment"
Technologies enter the "trough of disillusionment" because they fail to meet expectations and quickly become unfashionable. Consequently, the press usually abandons the topic and the technology.

4. "Slope of Enlightenment"
Although the press may have stopped covering the technology, some businesses continue through the "slope of enlightenment" and experiment to understand the benefits and practical application of the technology.

5. "Plateau of Productivity"
A technology reaches the "plateau of productivity" as the benefits of it become widely demonstrated and accepted. The technology becomes increasingly stable and evolves in second and third generations. The final height of the plateau varies according to whether the technology is broadly applicable or benefits only a niche market.

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Campus Computing Project

This is interesting:

Begun in 1990, The Campus Computing Project^TM is the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities. The US Campus Computing Project also provides the foundation for affiliated research projects in other nations, including Brazil Canada, China, and Hong Kong.

Each year some 600 two-and four-year public and private colleges and universities in the United States participate in the annual Campus Computing Survey, which focuses on campus planning and policy issues affecting the role of information technology in teaching, learning, and scholarship.

 

Minding the Gap

Friday's keynote was presented by Ellen D. Wagner. The presentation was by based on signs in the London Underground. Click here. The analogy was how to move forward and do training for jobs that currently do not exist. It is hard to get past the gap and we need to be aware of this. She sees five gaps: Innovation to implementation, Difference between research and practice, Difference between academic and corporations, differences between products and solutions, traditional elearning to emerge elearning.

Here is the abstract of her presentation:

This session explores the impact of technological innovations on emerging elearning practices. It reflects on the challenges facing learning advocates who strive to find the best balance between new and exciting technological developments with the demands of enabling learning, education, training and performance support solutions that engage and inspire.  It also considers the question: What will it take to drive real enterprise learning value while staying true to the needs of learning stakeholders, anytime anywhere?

Fixing Problems

I heard a Professor review Sources of Power yesterday, and I am planning on reading it. This professors noted that Firefighter tend to make decisions based on patterns in high stress situations. I have read similar statement before and I have to agree. When I am faced with computer problem, I seem to operate based on patterns and move in that area. This pattern recognition comes from years of experience, and I find that over the years I am getting better. This might be in my dissertation.

Patterns of Decision Making