Updated Getting Started with Blogs in Inst Tech

I’ve updated my “Beginner’s Guide to Blogs in Inst Tech”:https://opencontent.org/docs/begin_blog.html for a presentation Trey and I are doing in about 5 minutes here at PIDT. For what it’s worth.

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Journals, News, and Discourse

Due to poor planning (ask me later) I’ve received a “new faculty grant” to start a free access, online, peer-reviewed, instructional technology “journal.” Of course, my inclination is to lean it toward learning objects / reusable media / online communities / blogs / open content / etc. for the topic or niche. But the point of the grant is to explore new publishing models, and there are a whole bunch of other exploratory things that could be done. (This of course all ties back into the recent lamenting about the sorry state of academic discourse in inst tech blog circles…)

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AERA EduBloggers Dinner

Calling all EduBloggers… AERA is the biggest meeting of Ed Researchers on the planet (like 15,000 or something). Many of you will be in Chicago next week. Let’s get together and have dinner or drinks or something! If you’ll be in Chicago, post a comment describing when you’d be free to meet. I could make … Read more

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