Fall 1999
Vol 8 Issue 1
IN THIS ISSUE...
Technology: Places for Student Voices
Assisting Student Learning with Technology
Technology and Computers- More than Just Classroom Learning
Laptops, Websites, and Angkor-Wat
Ten Years of Student Voices on the Electronic Forum
Learning, Programming and Moving On at MCLI
Learning that Provides a Direction for the Future
Are We Listening to International Students
Hands-On Experience, Service Learning Makes it Real at MCC's Network Academy
SEE ALSO...
The Forum
Assidere
Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
Learning, Programming, and Moving on at MCLI
Alan Levine, MCLI
Over the past few years at MCLI, we have been fortunate to recruit three students who provide programming support for our computer development projects. They arrived with little more than an interest in computers, but all displayed a visible hunger to learn. Our first two student programmers have moved on to careers in the web development field. Previously, we found it took quite some time to find a replacement, but after talking to Jim Tipton at the MCC Center for Teaching and Learning, we found ourselves in the predicament of having to choose from two qualified candidates, both veterans of MCC's Student Technology Assistant program.
Colen Wilson joined us last June, and quickly dove into Perl programming to create a web based database for faculty to report "bugs" on a multimedia project. He has recently survived (smiling) two days of "Linux Bootcamp" and is busy investigating new applications to run from our experimental web server. Not only does Colen have the drive and aptitude to independently learn new techniques (while listening to live baseball games over the Internet), he is also an able team member and supporter of MCLI's non-technical activities as well. He clearly enjoys both work and learning opportunities.
We've asked him to share some of his experiences as both a student and a support staff in the Maricopa system.