Hi Folks, its Saturday morning and I'm at the computer (which is probably just as well since my wife is at work and it is a cold rainy day outside). We (my wife and I) both work at Montgomery College, I am a Computer Science/Computer Applications teacher and my wife works in the records and registration office. Since this is the first day of Saturday classes she has gone into work to help those students who thought they were registered (but weren't really) or showed up for a class that has been cancelled (and now don't know what to do), or the generally confused (of which we have our share).

Being a community college we try to provide a broad level of instruction, all the way from basic English (we have students from over 170 countries attending classes) through the equivalent of the sophomore year of college. Once a student completes their study at Montgomery College they earn an Associate's degree, which represents completing the first two years of college. Every four-year college in the University System of Maryland (and almost every other four year school in the state) will accept our students as "juniors" who only have to complete two more years of classes to earn a Bachelor's degree. Although not every class is guaranteed to transfer as that course (like Computer Science I transferring as another school's Computer Science I - which is true of any school sending credits to another school), the state funded universities promise to take all of the Associate degree credits and apply them at least as general electives. This means our students can earn up to about 60 credits at a much lower cost, and in much smaller classes, than some of the four-year universities in the state.

That's about it for today; I'm off to write-up some notes about the digital shakeout article and then a position paper.

Welcome to my BLOG (or should it be "blog"? I'm not sure of the protocol when refering to this mode of communication).

My name is John Coliton and I am a student at the University of Baltimore (in Maryland, USA) enrolled in a course called "Digital Economy and Culture" where we will be studying the rise and fall of the dot com economy, and what comes next. Part of the course requirements includes posting to a BLOG at least twice a week. Our professor (who I am very glad to have since she is a great teacher) said that the process of posting is more important than the actual content, so I have no idea what I will be talking about in this journal - just kind of rambling on about a lot of nothing.

Thats about it for today - I will likely be experimenting with formatting in the near future, but I wanted to get at least one post up before the weekend.