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Audio often very weak and difficult to hear and at several points someone is talking over the recording?  Topics discussed include:

• (inaudible) ISPI Association
• (inaudible) Performance Technology
• ASTD: Primarily focused on corporate training and education; international association; largest organization on the list; broad occupational category; learning and performance improvement; commercially oriented - closer to a trade associational with a professional operating staff
• AECT: Roughly 3,000 international members; Umbrella association covering many topics within field; innovating approaches to educational delivery; members have access to important publications and scholarly journals which make it a worthwhile membership for IST students;
• AERA: Most professors in IST belong; very large; many publications; methodology and new ideas in research; reports finding of research; divisions and special interests an important part of organization
• ISTE: Closest to AECT for computers in education - tightly related to k-12; typically "part timers" who take care of technology issues for schools; took lead in "certification"
• AACE: Founded in computing in education (like ISTE); major conferences by sub-specialty
• Other Publications: Most widely subscribed journal in IST field; for profit "one man" Larry Lipsitz; Programmed Instruction
• GIST: (Christy Borders) Reviewed student organization