Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts

Monday, March 02, 2009

Sticking To Your Vision and Mission

I watched the following interview and it made me think of the vision and mission statement for the school.
Vision Statement
Rio Hondo College strives to be an exemplary California community college, meeting the learning needs of its changing and growing population and developing a state of the art campus to serve future generations.

Mission Statement
“Rio Hondo College is a collaborative center of lifelong learning which provides innovative, challenging, and quality educational offerings for its diverse students and community.”

This guy really believes in sticking with his vision and mission even at the expense of his shareholders. Do we do this at Rio?



Friday, February 27, 2009

Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle

Amazon Confirms Student Version Of Kindle

Amazon To Target $5.5 Billion Textbook Market With New Kindle?


I saw an interview with the CEO of Amazon on Charlie Rose, so I googled the Kindle and saw the above story. The kindle is too expensive for our students today, but I can imagine as the price of the kindle falls, so will the cost of textbooks for our students. Instead of a $100 textbook imagine paying $9.99 for the same textbook.
Also I imagine posting my lecture notes for my students so they can download it using the Kindle. Here is a video for the kindle.