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The annual ITC eLearning 2009 Conference planning committee is in full gear. Every year that I have attended this conference has been better than the previous year, and I expect this year to be no exception. As a board member of the Instructional Technology Council, you would likely expect that I am biased in that respect, which is probably true. However, it is because of the quality of the conference and the people involved that I even wanted to join the board in the first place. The conference is scheduled for February 21-24 at the Portland Hilton and Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon. Pre-conference workshops will be held on Saturday, February 21 with the main conference kicking off Sunday, Feb. 22. I'll be hosting two pre-conference workshops : The Basics of Blogs, Wikis, and RSS - morning session Using Web 2.0 Tools inside your Virtual Learning Environment - afternoon The proposal deadline is Friday, October 10, 2008. Because we use a Moodle installation for the ITC websit...

Only four slides embedded below. The results are shown from a clicker question I posed during two different speaking engagements in front of K-12 audiences. I just think it's interesting, but not terribly surprising. About Virtual High Schools View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: onlineeducation elearning )

I love goofy generators like this . Thanks to John Krutsch  for the heads up on Twitter and for the very creative tool that he just whipped up one day. Wow!

For several years now I have railed against the use of ed2go courses when they are affiliated with a college or university. During my time on the Minnesota Online Council I was especially adamant against the listing of the ed2go courses at the MnOnline website as though they were endorsed courses from a member institution. There is no way that I think the brand should be diluted by including courses like this in our offerings. Why not? Glad you asked. NOTE: most of this post was written after I discovered that my own school had recently signed on with ed2go. This saddens me to no end since I spent the past five y ears railing against the use of ed2go in Minnesota Online and our colleges. Our VP in that division assures me that they will do what they can to not harm our reputation for quality online offerings - and I believe that, I'm just not sure how much of that we can actually control. I waited a couple of weeks before posting this to see whether my opinion would be changed by...