The Experience Economy: Embracing a New Kind of Customer Service
By Jill Holliday While evolution is always a heated topic, no one can deny the importance of change. For example, consider the evolution of clothing. In the days of the agrarian economy, women would make their clothing from scratch. In the goods-based industrial economy, women would buy a few yards of fabric at the local […]
Self-Publishing: Ham and Cheese on Why
By Katy Brown There’s an old song called “The Farmer in the Dell.” Ten children (or more) join hands and dance around the farmer, who stands in the center of the circle as they sing. At the end of the first verse, the farmer chooses his wife, who joins him inside the circle. At the […]
FSU Students Gain Real-Life Experience as Intelligence Analysts
By Amy Pellegrin “A West Virginia woman really needs her power restored. She’s running out of money to gas the generator keeping her husband’s ventilator on,” the tweet stated. In the aftermath of the June 29, 2012, derecho that slammed West Virginia and left hundreds of thousands without power for days, a team of Fairmont […]
W.Va. Schools Striving to Address Needs of All Students
By Jorea Marple, Ed.D. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words in the Declaration of Independence provide the foundation for our country as well as […]
Utilizing the Tool of Distraction: Teaching High School Students through Smartphones
By Chris Nye As a high school math teacher, I understand the amount of focus that is required in order to be successful at solving math problems. I firmly believe that math is best learned when the classroom environment is void of distractions. Over the years, I have observed as too many of my students […]
Education as a West Virginia Export
By Marta Tankersley International education has long been utilized as a means of promoting understanding among cultures, and in recent years it has also become big business. The concept of education as an export may be new to many, but since the U.S. is the most popular destination for foreign students, higher education has earned […]