With a Q

How sad and how web 2.0y of me to do this, but I thought it would be a nice experiment. Attending the Educause conference in Seattle right now and sitting in on a session about faculty training in learning management systems...most likely annoying the person sitting next to me with my tictacky typing. How many people are reading over my shoulder right now?

I am working on a class project that involves setting up a distributed networking project. We were given broad latitude in the topic of our project, and I have had a particularly recent, long, and painful RFP process in selecting a new LMS platform and hosting vendor for my "work" school. Everywhere I turned it was difficult to get a straight story between flourishing vendor demos and bits and pieces of hear-say at conferences.

We are talking about social networking and blogs/other environments that are prominent on the internet right now. At my own employ, I have long been pushing for the use of blogs in education. Teachers need to collaborate, but there's a wall that's encountered when we think about breaking it out to kids.

Woo-hoo! I got in to graduate school. I graduated college over ten years ago and I finally got off my butt to study something I am interested in. I am enrolled in the CTER Masters of Education program at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

There I will be studying Education and Technology and all that good stuff. I already work in developing online learning, so signing up for this program (which is completely online, by the way, so I stay in LA) was a no-brainer. I am still getting my orientation stuff in the mail, but from what I can tell it looks fun and also might shape up to be a huge chunk of my time. Oh well, bring it, right?

Go Fighting Illini!