Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My!
From the moment Kim Vega wakes up, she is thinking about or using technology. An associate professor since 1996, she quickly checks e-mail at home this morning on her university laptop to see if her department has confirmed the starting time of the monthly department meeting, if there are any frantic messages from students about the exam scheduled for her afternoon class, and if a co-author has sent revisions for an article due that week. As she drives to work, she gets a call from a colleague whose car has broken down and who asks that she start a 10 a.m. class for him. Once on campus, she grabs her paper mail and boots up her laptop.