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Just by publishing this gack, the Chronicle of Higher Education shows its speaks with an accent of digital immigrants.
“So Dr. Brontosaurus, it is 10 minutes before the end of the Jurassic Period, what are you going to do?”
“Nothing… why should I?.”

I am sitting here in Cincinnati, Kentucky (Yes, Ohio, the airport has left the state) waiting to go home after the 4 day intense almost boot camp experience of the EDUCAUSE Instructional Technology Leadership Program 2005. And the experience was more intense for the participants than us “faculty” presenters.
The vagaries of air flight have [...]

I love it- four spam roaches exterminated with one deft motion:

Also quickly added the wplicense plug-in, an easy way to puff up your WP blog with a Creative Commons license, and it comes with a free whiff of AJAX!

Audree, the brilliant programmer behind the system used at Chandler-Gilbert Community College as well as the version we share with the rest of Maricopa is rolling out some exciting new features for this software.
How about a wiki inside an ePort?

Audree has rolled into the eport system a version of UseMod wiki.
She just gave me [...]

If you have been blown away my zooming around Google Maps, the possibilities of combing that data with other data is starting to become wonderfully dizzying. Crime data and Google Maps. Housing and Google Maps.
Well here is another one– gCensus nicely combines US census data and Google Maps. As you zoom and pan you [...]

I recently got an email notification that a peer review has been done of a former project that is available in MERLOT. While it is listed as being loaded there in 2002, actually Negative Reinforcement University (NRU) was developed as a CD-ROM in 1996 and converted to the web in 1997.
Although I’ve not even [...]

This morning I turned the CogDogBlog firehouse of instructional technology for my opening presentation at the EDUCAUSE Instructional Technology Leadership Program 2005 held at Penn State University. I was asked to cover emerging technologies and issues of instructional design.
Firstly, and I started off saying this, I was rather intimidated as the level of expertise [...]

I am coming off of 10 days of rest, travel, and not doing much blogging, reading, or doing anything more significant than lying in a hammock. But I am not back in the office as tomorrow morning I fly to Penn State University for the EDUCAUSE Instructional Technology Leadership Program- this is a pilot of [...]

While I was offline for 4 days, I returned to find only 400+ email messages in the inbox. Of these, more than 300 were spam. Thunderbird does an okay job of spam filtering, but I still had to comb through and mark more than 150 new Junk sources. On our slow 26 Kbps dial up [...]

The blog was still the last week as this was some vacation time- first a few days to check on our cabin in Strawberry. The threat from the Cave Creek Complex fire, which burned more than 240,000 acres of wilderness area, decreased for the small communities up here. This time.
So with that, my wife and [...]