Educating knowledge workers

KILKENNY -- Well aware of the global levels of competition faced by my current cohort of college students, I am trying to get more out of each level of assessment. Because I have to increase student productivity if I expect to enhance their productivity on the job. I went looking for pregnant pauses in their workflow and fingered the most prominent one--the print queue. Figuring that if I killed the print queue, I could increase their productivity in creating and refining new media products, I simply told them I do not want to receive written materials from them. When several began to stress out over the prospect of their e-mail failing to arrive to me on time, I showed them how to blog their assignments. Now we have started a process where students use designated catch phrases in their blog titles that my aggregator catches in its routine crawls. I aggregate their topic sentences, then return with SurfSaver to harvest their work. I've given them blog space in a shared domain along with access to the back end of the web server to upload and manage raw content. This has killed the print queue and increased the flow of new media material generated by a very talented crew of multimedia developers.

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Ahmed Bilal -- one student's first month of blogging
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