If you are an AAA member w/ the "gold" level then if you are arrested for anything but DUI AAA will pay your bail/bond and arrange for a local lawyer.

The college I work for just went from locally hosted/managed Exchange to Office 365. According to our CIO, currently enrolled students are no cost, students who aren't currently enrolled are $3/month to keep active accounts for, and employees are $5/month.

Considering that we have 15k enrolled students per term (comes out to about 11k FTE) while not free it is certainly darn cheap.

If Google really wants to create a LMS, the critical thing will be an exam/testing engine. Everything else - communications, presenting docments in a variety of formats, etc. can be done using thier existing tools. But giving a student a test, that is the tricky part.

The work flow of creating classes, and the overall initial impression of the look and feel. We had a committee of almost 60 people - an instructor or two from every academic department/discipline, our IT department, my department (academic technology)

The big thing that convinced me to vote for Canvas was that in Canvas the HTML editor that is present basically everywhere you can input text has a widget that allows you to record voice/video direct from your computer (mic for audio only, webcam for audio and video), gets saved directly to Canvas, gets converted on the back end by Kaltura, and is served up in an appropriate format for whatever device is being used to view it. This is a big game changer for foriegn language, public speaking, any course that requires a student to make a presentation. Even changes math instruction - instructors can point a webcam at a piece of paper on the desk and work thru a problem, giving a voice over while showing the work being done.

I am the LMS Admin at the college I work for... when BB bought WebCT support dropped. We moved to Angel, things weren't much better and then BB bought Angel. When we started looking at new LMSes (LMSii ?) 2 years ago, it was decided that BB is a company we didn't want to do business with. Our short list got down to Canvas and D2L. We went with Canvas. It is Open Source (AGPLv3), it works much better than Angel did, and they actually fix bugs and implement features that teachers and admins want.

Yup, simple implementations of games you know. I like cards - dealing a poker hand, determining what hand it is, comparing with other hands, determining winner. Then run it in a loop a few thousand times, recording results to a database, or a csv file, or ...

It isn't often just classes on the field the teacher works in, it is often classes on pedagogy, using new technology to enhance their teaching, learning new software like a course management system, etc.

And yes, teachers should be paid while they are attending these courses, as well as for any course they are required to maintain whatever professional licensing they have.

Think if We The People wanted to focus on an amendment to the Constitution that perhaps something along the lines of term limits would be better...

As a shooter, I'd more appreciate it if they could magically build yet another ammo plant and crank out more 22 ammo...

(ATK owns both Federal and CCI)

Yup, just did this - replaced my '99 Altima (had 215k on the engine, still a good car but I have young kids and didn't want to risk being stuck with them) and got a 2013 Nissan Versa, just under $14k after all taxes, tag, etc.

Full tank of gas cost me $35 last night (and gas was $3.82 where I stopped), I can go almost 400 miles on that.

Really? How many people knew about heartbleed 3 weeks ago?

Like the original Liberator pistol that the US dropped all over France, etc., the idea behind the new production 3d printed one is to allow you one or two shots, so you can aquire a "real" gun from someone else....

Same here... I use hte $50 version, fed taxes only (Florida has no state income tax). Worth every penny, and since I've been using it every year for the past 6 or so it imports my prior returns and uses them as a starting point. Handles investments (stocks), mortagage interest,etc. and lets me efile. Works great in Firefox on Mint (and Ubuntu and Debian before that).

Indeed, if a Ma Deuce doesn't solve the problem either the problem is unsolvable or you just need more ammo.

Or organ/skin condoms.

As the joke goes, in 1500 the thought of using a sheeps intestine as a condom to prevent pregnancy. In 1873 the improved on the idea by removing the intestine from the sheep first.