I just watched an interesting video of Bruce Schneier discussing the future of the IT Security industry. His arguments parallel Nick Carr’s discussion of trends toward utility computing. Schneier argues that as outsourcing trends continue, we’ll see the IT security become the focus of firms providing the outsourced services (like Facebook & Gmail) and security [...]
Archive for September, 2009
The Future of the Security Industry
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BYU-IT481-Fall2009, cloud computing, security, teaching, trends on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Preparing for Fall Semester
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BYUH, BYUH-IT426-Fall2009, Fall2009, IT426, teaching on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a very momentous new faculty training yesterday, I set out today to seriously begin my preparations for my fall semester courses. (Classes start on Thursday). I spent much of the day familiarizing myself with the textbook and other resources for my network services management (with Windows 2003) course. I’ve been very [...]
Learning through Tinkering
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged collaboration, creativity, innovation, teaching on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to get my students to build more and become invested in their work and learn through experimentation. I think this video by John Seely Brown captures some of the things I’m trying to accomplish in the classroom. To me, however, the challenge appears to be that [...]
