Today all Major League Baseball players wore uniforms with the number 42 to honor Jackie Robinson.
Robinson’s number was retired from all teams. Today just one MLB player can still wear #42 on his back. (He was grandfathered in.) Do you know who this is? Yankee fans will know this one.
The average American household with at least one credit card has nearly $10,700 in credit-card debt, according to CardWeb.com, and the average interest rate runs in the mid- to high teens at any given time.
April is financial literacy awareness month. Here is a site for more info, http://www.emergingedtech.com/
Delighted to attend Elizabeth Lieberman’s Legacy Lecture on April 10th. Liz came to NOVA in 1968 and retired from teaching mathematics in December 2011. The Legacy Lecture is a tradition at the Annandale Campus honoring retiring faculty.
The Paul Lee professional development and workshop mini-grant applications are due by COB on Monday, April 16. For more information on the grants, click here.
Many people feel invigorated by ready access to information. Others may feel overloaded by the relentless stream of infomation. What do you think?
Here is a news video from ABC News on technological overload
GMA Technological Overload
Faculty and staff in Australia uneasy with requirement to be nice. What do you think?
Insidehighered: Can Academics Be Required to Be Nice? http://t.co/SGGhHGYf
David Levy’s writes a provocative oped piece in the Washington Post on Sunday, March 25, 2012, Do College Professors Work Hard Enough? http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-college-professors-work-hard-enough/2012/02/15/gIQAn058VS_story.html
Are you using your iPad to read your textbook for CST 110 Introduction to Speech Communication? Do you use the features to highlight, to send messages, and to make notes?
http://media.pearsoncmg.com/cmg/ebook_plus/ipad_1.1_eText_H264.mp4