Friday, February 12, 2010

Re: A Better Name Than "Info Studies"

Technology Literacy?


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Sue Wurster
Sue_Wurster@Big6.com
Executive Director, Big6 Associates, LLC
315-450-6406

On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Keith E Gatling wrote:

> Here at MPH we're revamping the traditional Info Studies course I've
> taught
> for 18 years. This is the course that used to be required of
> everyone, and
> went through Word Processing, Spreadsheets, the Internet, and
> various other
> things as they fell in or out of favor.
>
> Over the years more and more students have been able to test out of
> the
> course, as a result, it became seen as the "loser course."
>
> The fact that so many people were able to test out made us decide to
> revamp
> the course to teach more of the new trendy stuff like blogging, video
> making, etc. Our goal is to make this into a class that people WANT
> to take.
>
> But at the moment the revamped course is still carrying the tainted
> name of
> Info Studies, and a number of us feel that for students to want to
> take this
> class, it has to have a totally different name. I mean, really,
> would anyone
> really buy a new car that was called the Edsel?
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on what a good name for the new course
> would be?
>
> Thanks!
>
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