Chevy Volt

GM announced the Chevy Volt three years ago at the Detroit auto show.  It was sweet looking and they said that it would be available in 2010.  I hate when companies show you a cool product and then tell you that it will be available in the distant future.  Well, GM will finally be selling the volt in November of this year.  It doesn’t look like the concept car that they showed us three years ago.  Not near as sexy.  Why not develop a product and once it’s finalized then show it to the consumer and sell it to them? http://www.businessweek.com/autos/autobeat/archives/2010/07/chevrolet_volt_fatigue_setting_in.html

Should we pull teachers out of the education process?

Kind of fired up.  Besides my Web EDU class, I’m also taking a class about working with at-risk kids.  Some of the criticisms of the depersonalization of education was right on the mark.  I think that the prevailing sentiment of running schools like businesses is dangerous.  I’m not sure that businesses are heading in the right direction either.  I think that our society is trying to move toward taking the teachers out of teaching.  This article has some interesting insights on this idea. http://www.mlive.com/opinion/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/04/guest_column_technology_cant_r.html

First blog post. Whoa!!!!!!

OK.  I have now created my first blog.  Feeling pretty good about myself right now.  I’ve got to do some investigation and find out how to add documents.  Not sure if I can do this using blogger, but it would certainly be nice to be able to add assignments to my blog posts.  Any help would be appreciated.