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…
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
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.
I just watched the PBS Frontline special Growing Up Online. PBS has made the full version of the program available online, along with extended clips, discussion boards, and chat room (live on Wednesday 01/22 at 11 a.m. ET). FRONTLINE: growing up online | PBS via kwout While I am quite familiar with the issues and…
It seems straightforward enough, right? However, in my Foundations in Distance Education course, we are exploring definitions of distance education that vary widely. This difference in definition and perception has profound implications on research and instructional practices … if you aren’t talking about the same thing, how can you compare results and recommendations? My “off…
The good folks at Utah State University have a faculty opening in their Instructional Technology Department. In a typically "open" fashion, David Wiley mentions the opening in his blog. The job description is also online. Based on my experience last fall, you would be joining an awesome group!
Not much to write since it is my first day of classes in my new doctoral program at Old Dominion University, but I felt a “first day” post was somehow newsworthy – even Tom gave me a, “Be a good girl, have a good time, and learn a lot ” so it must have meant…