Tag: Education
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Jamie Miller is the Creative Economy!
createwv.typepad.com Several West Virginians recently were generous enough to share their personal stories and perspectives with Create WV. Such profiles are great tools for illustrating what we mean by a new economy for our state — who populates this workforce and how they see the world and West Virginia’s place in it. Look for more…
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West Virginia Stereotype: Embracing Technology in Practical Ways
Growing up, I guess I had the impression that West Virginia was advanced in the area of technology. My reason for thinking so? As a kid I learned about the giant radio telescopes at Green Bank. I also lived in Morgantown briefly while the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system was being built. The National Radio…
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What I Learned at DNA Camp
While some kids are learning to ride horses, climb ropes and make pottery (all worthy activities) at summer camp, some kids in Huntington are analyzing strands of fish DNA through a program called DACE in the Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Center. DACE stands for DNA and College Experience and it’s a program run by the…
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New Econony’s Influence on 55 Good Things
Sometimes seeing a list of examples is the best way to understand a concept. The State Journal recently published their list of 55 good things about West Virginia, a wonderful roundup of positive people, organizations and initiatives they’ve compiled for the past 23 years. We thought it would be interesting to highlight a few of…
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FIRST Class Creative Work in WV
We enjoy telling the rest of the state and the world about the great creative work already being done here in West Virginia. That includes all fields – arts and culture, creative design, scientific research, technology, entrepreneurship and more. Here are a few things we’ve recently heard about that we’re proud to share. Do you…
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WV Education
An article, “Teaming up on Tech,” in yesterday’s Charleston Gazette, 05/21/2008, disscused the different efforts in our WV Educational system to promote learning. It’s exciting to see and hear the progress that happens within our state. The article discussed a movement towards “student-centered” education with the “use of computer-based programs and Web sites.” Mark Moore…
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Thinkfinity.org
Everyone I had the wrong link for the posting WV Education is actually www.Thinkfinity.org. Sorry about that everyone.
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Education Track Leader 2008: Tim McClung
Let me introduce you to the Education Track Leader for the Create WV Conference this year. Gang, this is Tim McClung … Tim, this is the Create WV posse. (Tim says hi) The Education Track was popular last year and we all think it is going to be even better this year. Tim calls it…
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We Are…A Creative Community!
In Huntington Vaughn Grisham, a sociology professor and director of the McLean Institute for Community Development at the University of Mississippi, lead a community planning session at Marshall University’s Memorial Student Center that attracted over 60 citizens. The topic? Huntington’s future and how to engage young people in the development of it. From the Huntington…
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Pushing Back on Cultural Bias Against Academic Attainment
We’ve heard several people comment over the last several months about a perceived bias against education in our great state. The basic recounting goes like this: The bias manifests itself in other ways, such as resistance to teacher pay raises (“they already make more than most of us, and they get the summers off!”). I…