Hi. Darren Pearson here from DNP Consulting. Please feel free to leave feedback on any of my blog postings. I especially encourage feedback from Disqus users.
Aug
23
Saint Paul College ranked #1 today in the Washington Monthly review of two year community colleges.
The magazine went on to talk about the Saint Paul College environment in an article called “Shakespeare with Power Tools.“
Aug
17
Each year, Beloit College creates a Mindset List for freshmen, characterizing how freshmen view the world. Some of the interesting ones for 2014 are:
The complete list for the class of 2014 can be found here.
May
13
Just finished up Computer Animation 1 at SPC for Spring Semester. Quickly put together a collection of student final projects below. I plan on modifying the video later but wanted to get a rough draft posted.
Jan
21
The semester, I’m teaching a class at Saint Paul College called Blogging Applications. I’m pretty excited about it. For one of the first assignments, students will be required to look through the list of the top blogs found on Technorati and identify various feature of one of the specific blogs. They will also be required to leave feedback on this specific post about which blog they found interesting.
Nov
24
Nov
5
Great article on the Saint Paul College Website about a good friend and coworker, Jeremy Sartain. I setup a simple blog for him a few years ago and have followed his Ironman progress on it ever since. Great story about staying positive through some tough challenges.
Aug
20
Just finished getting our Mac Lab up on the fourth floor configured to dual boot Mac OS X and Windows XP. We will also be having open lab hours for Fall Semester on Tuesdays and Thursday from 3 to 5.
Students can get up to 25GB of free storage space using Skydrive through Microsoft. Students need to sign up using their new student email account. Very handy place to store homework files, plus any photo/music/video files you want to access from anywhere in the world.
Enrollment services put together a great Online Orientation Presentation. Strongly recommended for students starting their first semester at SPC.
I plan on using Desire 2 Learn for some of my classes this semester. To initially sign up, click on tinyurl.com/spcd2l
Students will need to migrate from
username@student.saintpaul.edu to username@my.saintpaul.edu
by September 30th. The old email account will quit working on October 1st.
Last but not least, SPC is putting on a theatrical production in cooperation with the culinary arts program this school year. It’s the first time the SPC theater has been used since the early 70′s. Auditions for “Our Town” will be during the first month of Fall Semester and the dinner and a play production is scheduled for April 16 and 17 this spring.
Apr
20
Heard rumors in the last few weeks that IBM was going to buy Sun but now it looks like Oracle is going to get them for $7.4 billion. Full article about it here: Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal. Saint Paul College recently became a Sun Center of Excellence, guess I’ll find out in the next few weeks how this change will affect SPC.
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