Hi Tom- I "laughed out loud" when reading your response*. You're right that without more context, Occum's Razor would suggest passing around a sheet of paper. In fact, the issue is that the information that needs to be collected from participants had been on sheets of paper, but that paper was getting lost in transit between the "sheet-filler-outer" and the temporary worker we hired to type that information into a database. We could create a scantron form to make the data collection easier, but an even more economical solution is to allow students to type it in themselves--during a presentation. What I'm envisioning is one of our recruiting presenters gathering the information on a wireless PC, and then uploading it through a wireless connection onto a server that stores it.
Betty, thanks so much for the GoBook selection. Take care everyone. Arnold *also, an essay could likely be written on the transitional nature of our generation. When many of us were younger, our first response to answer a question probably sent us to concrete references--like the Encyclopedia Brittanica, or another physical source. But now we look to technology, and more specifically, the internet to answer a question. Likewise, we are more inclined to look to a digital solution at times when a material or physical solution is probably the better course of action (like, a sheet of paper). Then again....this has probably been said more than once. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
