SketchUp began as an independent software company, @Last, in 1999, located in Boulder, Colorado. SketchUp is a described as “3D for everyone,” a general purpose 3D content creation tool. The intent of the founders was to create a software tool easy enough for anyone to create 3D content using intuitive drawing controls. Due to the…
As an information technology professional, one involved in the realm of geographic information systems and mapping technology, students often ask what technologies they can learn to become more competitive in the job market. I stress two technologies, programming, and databases. For databases, I don’t point them in any particular direction, Oracle, SQL Server; even IBM…
I honestly do not think our current National Education System is churning out people prepared to meet the world head-on. Some schools are doing a fine job in spite reduced parental support, reduced administrative support, reduced political support, and local, state, and federal support. Americans whine about jobs, but Education is the only true way…
Technology use in the classroom, whether for K-12 or Higher Education, should not be the exception but the rule. I should point out technology should never replace good, solid teaching or the promotion of good, solid skills, such as working math problems using pencil and paper, or writing using pen and ink. Certain fundamental skills…
Technology use in the classroom, whether for K-12 or Higher Education, should not be the exception but the rule. I should point out technology should never replace good, solid teaching or the promotion of good, solid skills, such as working math problems using pencil and paper, or writing using pen and ink. Certain fundamental skills…
I’m not aware of any test. The phlebotomist cannot draw blood, run the blood sample, and then give you the good news; “Guess what, Mr. Busby? You’re good, you are a Rational Consumer. Keep your finances in order, and you should live a long life of comfortable consumption.” If only life were simple like that.…
I’ve spent the last year educating myself about economics. Why economics? Simply put, government bureaucrats use the Ignorance of the Masses to push through economic policies which superficially sound well-grounded yet have dangerous and harmful downstream effects. Being ignorant myself of economics, I did recognize many U.S. foreign and economic policies were damaging in the…
And, it’s not the job you think. As an instructor, teacher, lecturer, coach, whatever the role, I honestly do have an interest in helping people be successful in their academic career. Helping students become successful hopefully results in successful people, resulting in a better, more educated, more productive society. Everyone wins! Not everyone begins college…
Writing is not simply a high school exercise designed by sadistic adults to torture teenage brain cells. The pain felt while writing, if not teenage angst, is the result of torpid brain cells firing into action. Writing is communication. Communication is imperative to all human interaction. Writing helps one organize thoughts, from linear progression in…
I have watched all of the GOP debates. Not once but at least twice due to re-broadcasts and availability to review them on FoxNews and YouTube. Frequently, a comment similar to, America was built by hard-working Americans, has been voiced by a candidate. In fact, Newt Gingrich, at the Iowa debate, stated, “We are a…
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