Comments on: Response to Student Affairs On-Line Letter to the Editor http://mistakengoal.com/blog/2008/12/24/response-to-student-affairs-on-line-letter-to-the-editor/ Where higher education and technology meet Wed, 09 May 2012 18:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kevin Guidry http://mistakengoal.com/blog/2008/12/24/response-to-student-affairs-on-line-letter-to-the-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-54577 Kevin Guidry Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:51:27 +0000 http://mistakengoal.com/blog/?p=125#comment-54577 Thanks for the reply Frank! I appreciate you taking the time to write your original message and this comment! I have not yet published this material. I would very much like to do so but so far I have been stymied by (a) lack of time (I'm really trying to finish this degree!) and (b) confusion over which venue would be most appropriate and welcoming. I think the material would be most useful for student affairs folks but the typical student affairs publication venues may not very welcoming of this kind of historical piece so I am a bit daunted. Of course, there is always the desire to do more, learn more, and improve the article but I don't have a problem with shipping it off to let editors and reviewers decide if it's good enough in its current state. My research led me believe that there is a lot more going on in counselor education and professional development that I previously suspected and I've requested a copy of that issue of The Personnel and Guidance Journal to help fill in some of the holes. Thanks for the recommendation! Thanks for the reply Frank! I appreciate you taking the time to write your original message and this comment! I have not yet published this material. I would very much like to do so but so far I have been stymied by (a) lack of time (I’m really trying to finish this degree!) and (b) confusion over which venue would be most appropriate and welcoming. I think the material would be most useful for student affairs folks but the typical student affairs publication venues may not very welcoming of this kind of historical piece so I am a bit daunted. Of course, there is always the desire to do more, learn more, and improve the article but I don’t have a problem with shipping it off to let editors and reviewers decide if it’s good enough in its current state.

My research led me believe that there is a lot more going on in counselor education and professional development that I previously suspected and I’ve requested a copy of that issue of The Personnel and Guidance Journal to help fill in some of the holes. Thanks for the recommendation!

]]> By: Frank L Christ http://mistakengoal.com/blog/2008/12/24/response-to-student-affairs-on-line-letter-to-the-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-54314 Frank L Christ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:06:45 +0000 http://mistakengoal.com/blog/?p=125#comment-54314 Kevin, Sorry about this very late response to your response to my comment on your article: I did not intend to demean your research findings. You are absolutely correct that the events that I listed are not easily available to you. I hope that you can use what I suggested as examples of Student Affairs and technology. If you need exact references, please email me and I will send them. BTW, Thirty years ago, Robert Havens writing in "Technology in Guidance," a special issue of The Personnel and Guidance Journal (49,3,Nov 1970) stressed the role that we, as counselors and personnel workers should assume to meet the educational challenges of technological innovation. "Every one in the counseling and personnel field should be familiar with the rapidly developing technologies whether computers, system analysis, retrieval systems, or multimedia techniques. Counselors [learning assistance personnel] must know how to communicate with the technological specialist because technology will come to guidance. It must come. We need it. The important question is who will decide what it will do for people and to people. We must determine, in consultation with technologists what programmatic applications technology will have in guidance.” I would like to know if your article has been published oir will be. Collegially...... Kevin, Sorry about this very late response to your response to my comment on your article: I did not intend to demean your research findings. You are absolutely correct that the events that I listed are not easily available to you. I hope that you can use what I suggested as examples of Student Affairs and technology. If you need exact references, please email me and I will send them.
BTW, Thirty years ago, Robert Havens writing in “Technology in Guidance,” a special issue of The Personnel and Guidance Journal (49,3,Nov 1970) stressed the role that we, as counselors and personnel workers should assume to meet the educational challenges of technological innovation.
“Every one in the counseling and personnel field should be familiar with the rapidly developing technologies whether computers, system analysis, retrieval systems, or multimedia techniques.
Counselors [learning assistance personnel] must know how to communicate with the technological specialist because technology will come to guidance. It must come. We need it.
The important question is who will decide what it will do for people and to people. We must determine, in consultation with technologists what programmatic applications technology will have in guidance.”
I would like to know if your article has been published oir will be. Collegially……

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