next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
Many of our colleagues are under the impression that blogs are no more than lightweight soapboxes for exhibitionists who want to expose the minutest intimate details about their boring lives. Far from it. Blogs have come a long way. In the hands of professionals, they’re pushing traditional webpages into the virtual slow lane and hurtling down the fast lane toward respectability. A good example is Law Professor Blogs, which is worth noting for what it’s not as well as for what it is. It’s not a place for informal personal takes on the latest news in the field — or out of the field, for that matter. Paul L. Caron, publisher and editor-in-chief, is associate dean of faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He says, “Our blogs are not a collection of personal ruminations about the Presidential campaign, the war in Iraq, or what the editor had for dinner last night. Neither do our editors offer their personal views on every policy issue in the news or every new court decision. We leave that terrain to the many existing blogs with that mission. Instead, our editors focus their efforts, in both the permanent resources & links and daily news & information, on the scholarly and teaching needs of law professors. Our hope is that law professors will visit the Law Professor Blog in their area (or areas) as part of their daily routine.” For more on Law Professor Blogs, click on the image below.
The implications for colleges are immense. With this step, we, college educators, have the opportunity to take digital communications technology into our own hands and publish directly to the web, making it possible for us to not only reach an infinitely wider audience but to interact with them as well. Blogging doesn’t require special technical training or knowledge of HTML. Blogs are free and easy to set up. For example, Blogger takes you, step-by-step, through the process. You’re up and blogging in a matter of minutes. Blogs are the next generation, social network webpages that are accessible to everyone, and we’re only beginning to tap their potential.
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