I team-teach, claims to be intimidated by computers. I can do word processing, but that s about it, Pence said. I m not really competent with the computer, and whenever I touch it, it messes up. Even though I don t like them, I understand that their use in our society is increasing, and I like the idea that we got a laptop at Wake Forest, because my parents wouldn t have been able to buy me a computer otherwise. Schilling, who is also a member of the Wake Forest baseball team, had his own company in high school specializing in Web hosting, graphic design and site development.
Schilling is self-taught.
He got his first computer at age 10 and never looked back. Such disparate backgrounds have forced the university to come up with innovative programs to answer a wide range of training needs and interest in technology. In addition to software training, the Getting Started CD-ROM and a number of conventional computer training sessions, two programs in particular involve students in their own teaching and research projects. One program puts student resident technology advisers, or RTAs, in the dorms that house students with ThinkPads. But, freshmen are picking this up very quickly.