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Some weasel hacked my site today, so after I restored my database I had to go in and clean up a few posts from earlier this year. Sorry for the RSS spam!

I attended AERA this week in my adopted “hometown” of NYC. I assumed that I would have things to post about and links to share, but I it really isn’t that kind of a conference. Given the 500 page fine print book of presentations, my goal was to see a handful of specific presenters ……

I’ve taken various versions of the Myers-Briggs test in the past and I tend to vary within the N / S category. I would guess that my responses vary based on my current situation when I take the test – what project I am working on, recent social situations, whether I’m in a new job…

I attended the State University of New York (SUNY) distance learning summit this week and Christian Wise, a Senior Designer at WGBH in Boston, gave an overview of teachersdomain.org, WGBH’s online digital library of multimedia resources for educators. The distribution format they are using signals how and where they will deliver their educational content in…

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…

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…

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…

I have been having a world of trouble getting my hands on SPSS software (from problems finding an online retailer who would accept my academic verification as a new ODU student to problems with the software being on backorder after I was told it shipped). In desperation, I went to the SPSS corporate site and…

Through a link posted in the edtechtalk del.icio.us folder, I stumbled across Ajax IM – discussed and tested by NCS-Tech blog. It looks like a promising way to set up a private IM network on your own server. I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has tried it.