Well, the grant proposal I wrote for EdTechTalk.com in the HASTAC / MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition wasn’t accepted. No big surprise given that we had a 1.68% chance (17 awards given to 1,010 applicants). However, like all sore losers I am more than a bit let down, especially as I review the […]
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I regularly toss out a phantom statistic (which I made up, but may be an overestimation) that the stuff we talk about on EdTechWeekly and in the edublogosphere reaches and resonates with less than 2% of the population. I further contend that reaching the “other 98%” is the obstacle. Well … leave it to Oprah
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George Siemens facilitated a nice review of his paper – Teaching and Learning in Knowledge Networks – in the ITForum this week. The "conversation" was good and nicely moderated. Unfortunately, I can’t link to any of the conversations as they are held on an e-mail listserv and the conversation history can’t be viewed by those
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My husband and I just voted in the U.S. presidential primary election and (like always) felt like grabbing a hot dog and some apple pie to wash down our patriotic pride. We are in one of the colored "Super Tuesday" states below. Get out the vote, baby! Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Super_Duper_Tuesday_2008.png
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