My current activities fit in well with this outlook. I have 2 jobs. In my professor role, my main current project, in addition to teaching one course each semester, is producing the 3rd edition of my Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics book. As APIT, I am sort of a part time CIO for Swarthmore. I help coordinate the present of technology use at Swarthmore and plan for the future.
Technology is expensive, all of it is trendy, and some of it is good.
We want Swarthmore to find the technology that works best with our personal approach to education and then commit the resources needed to buy it and use it well. To give a small example, I am involved with the introduction of the Blackboard Course Management Software. I sit on the steering committee of the tricollege grant that dedicated money for this project and I help coordinate the people who are getting it started. Technology cuts across the traditional divisions of responsibilites at the College, and part of my job is to see that the technology needs are viewed coherently, without gaps or duplications. We have two kids, Leon age 15 and Aaron age 12.