Net Neutrality Update
Please log on an read today's Washington Post Opinion Section: Lawrence Lessig and Robert McChensey "No Tolls on the Internet" – I couldn't have said it better myself! Please also keep checking in at Save the Internet.com

Please log on an read today's Washington Post Opinion Section: Lawrence Lessig and Robert McChensey "No Tolls on the Internet" – I couldn't have said it better myself! Please also keep checking in at Save the Internet.com

This is the third iteration of my personal blog. Until I figure out a good way to integrate my prior Drupal and Blogspot (yes, Blogspot) blogs, here are the links to my past musing … 2006 – Fall 2012: http://designedtoinspire.com/drupal/ 2005 – 2006: http://jmaddrell.blogspot.com/
As I write (and rewrite and rewrite) the overview for the first week of Technology, Learning Systems, and Culture, a course I’m co-teaching with Stephanie Moore at the University of Virginia, I’m trying to pull examples from recent history to frame the (wonderful!) readings Stephanie assembled. Our first week’s reading list includes Andrew Feenberg’s 1999…
I see that a special edition on the CoI is coming out (currently online first) in the Internet and Higher Education. Not sure if those without library access can open the PDFs (I just link to them … I don’t set the access policy). In my initial glance, I still don’t see any studies specifically…
Join us at EdTechWeekly on Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. ET on the EdTechTalk.com channel of the WorldBridges network. Here is the list of links we will be discussing during this week’s live webcast. Feel free to add your suggestions by adding a del.icio.us tag of “for:edtechtalk” to your favorite links. See you Sunday night!…
Link to Paper: https://www.designedtoinspire.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Backchannel Research Paper Maddrell FINAL.doc The focus of this report is to review the literature for assessments of the effect of computer-mediated backchannel interaction during live instructional presentation. The goal is to consider the impact on the learner as both a receiver of instructional messages sent from the instructor, as well as an…
I found out tonight that my mom’s close friend, Mary Jean Goeres, died this week. Mary Jean and her husband raised their kids at the same time my parents were raising their “first” kids, and then they traveled with my mom and dad through the 1990s and early 2000s. This picture includes my mom and dad…