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Schools and libraries program of the universal service

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Values of Technology Assessment

One of the greatest values of assessing faculty technology skills is knowing where you and your faculty stand in terms of knowledge of technology and comfort of using it as well. Once you find out where the majority has a baseline, you can build on how you want educators to grow with technology and what means are at your disposal to do so. An estimate of funding can be determined when you look at your results from  the assessment. Information gathered can also classify the level of knowledge in order to see what faculty might have the ability to do in house training as well with the different components. For instance there may be a couple of teachers who are masters with business applications who can train on productivity software. Or maybe someone is a gadget person that wants to share their knowledge, you can pull them to educate the rest on the benefits of using said gadgets in their curriculum.
The major pro for assessment is getting the feedback of where you are and what kind of possibilities you can aim for with the resources you have.  You can also plan for funding for the future. Honestly I cannot think of a con for doing a technology assessment because ultimately you want to have students be able to be competent in mastering the usage of technology in the world they are about to face.

2nd attempt at Blogging

Well here I am again testing the waters of the Bloggesphere.  My first attempt was a wash a few years back when it was just starting to be trendy to Blog.  I did not take the time to maintain it and forgot all about.  Well, now I have purpose for a blog and a reason to maintain it so here I am for a triumphant return. I title it Adventures of a 21st Century Grad Student.  I titled it this because I was also a 20th Century Grad student in 1992-93 and it is a different world now then it was then only less than 20 years ago. I will share more as my coursework progress along with some of my course work.