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Just a reminder for my HPU students: WebCT is down for maintenance until 1200 HT tomorrow, Thursday, 28 August 2008 1800 HT this evening.

I’ve posted the syllabi and schedules for my graduate courses on the following pages:

• IS 6100
• IS 6700
• MGMT 6050

Image courtesy of 4PIZON through a Creative Commons license.

I’ve posted the course syllabus and schedule for my face-to-face and online sections of IS 6700. This is the Technology Strategy course that used to be called IS 7010.

See this web page and WebCT to access the PDF version of the syllabus.

I’ve posted my Fall 2008 syllabus for Information Systems Management, also known as IS 6100 and MGMT 6050 at Hawaii Pacific University. This is an online course that starts next Tuesday, 2 September 2008.

The document is available here and in WebCT as a PDF file.

I’m using WebCT to manage the course.

We’re using a new textbook this term, too.

Congratulations to the Shidler College of Business, part of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

The Shidler College was ranked 19th out of all AACSB-accredited programs in a recent survey of international business programs, based on responses from deans and faculty at AACSB-accredited programs.

See this article in the Honolulu Advertiser called UH business school ranked internationally for additional details.

As we start the university school year in North America, more students are buying and using Macs and iPhones. In a few cases, universities are giving freshman students Apple hardware. 9to5mac has an excellent article on this trend called iPhone takes a seat across university campuses. Jonathan D. Glater also discussed university Mac adoption in his New York Times article called Welcome Freshman. Have an iPod. 

With the high cost of gas, fewer students are driving themselves to campus.

Will fewer students be tempted to use their iPhones and iPod Touches as heads-up video displays in their automobiles, as shown in jiggymatt’s YouTube video called “Heads Up” iPhone Display and discussed in a bookofjoe article called ‘It’s great - I can watch my stuff while I’m driving’?

If you’re dumb enough to watch videos while you’re driving, you probably shouldn’t be going to college.

Related articles and pages on billso.com

• iPhone
• 19 August 2008: Teaching college students online
• 16 August 2008: Divided attention and food in the classroom
• 14 July 2008: Rising gas prices fuel online course enrollments