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Wesley Fryer has shared with us that the much anticipated (common intro to Microsoft products) IE 7 Beta is available for download.
Techlearning blog: IE 7 Beta for Windows:
At long last, Windows users of Internet Explorer can natively utilize and leverage the power of RSS by downloading and using Internet Explorer 7, which is in beta. […]

My last session at the e-Learning Summit yesterday was Telling the New Story. I made it more of a workshop, with lots of discussion, and I’m discovering that this is not easy. Our stories are long and deep and philosophical, and these kinds of stories, though they are great implementation stories, will not […]

I’m in my hotel room, overlooking the University of Minnesota, preparing for my keynote and 21st century literacy. I’ve scanned through the program and one thing is jumping out at me, pretty blatantly. I’m seeing terms of phrases that seem to follow a fairly consistent theme. They include:
* Web portals
* Global communications
* […]

I had a two and a half hour layover at Charlotte Douglas Airport yesterday, one of my all-time favorite layovers. Any airport that offers rocking chairs, cares. During yesterday’s visit, I discovered their business center, with desks, ethernet ports, free WiFi, lots of electrical outlets, and quite comfortable chairs. They also […]

I just took a second to scan over my comments manager and was surprised to find a number of comments there, that had been screened for some reason. I can’t figure out why they were screened, because they were people who regularly comment on my entries. I do not have time now to […]

I’m off today for Ausburg college and the 2006 Minnesota e-Learning Summit, in Minneapolis. I do not know very much about this conference. It’s organized by Minnesota Government Training Services, which appears to do a lot of professional development activities and not just in education.
I’ll be delivering the opening Keynote tomorrow on twenty-first […]

Cameron Cox is with In-Tell-com. The session is called “Enhancing Online and Blended Courses With High-Quality Video.” Frankly, it’s not the kind of session that I would normally sit in on, but I’m learning a lot here, from conversations that I normally do not sit in on. Some of the types of […]

[This is moblogged in real time. Please forgive typos and awkward wording]
I’ve not had the opportunity to hear Susan Patrick before. As someone said as I was setting up, she has a long and very distinguished history. Today she is speaking from her capacity as the President/CEO of the North American Council […]

I believe that I am going to enjoy a unique experience today. I’m speaking at the North Carolina Distance Learning Alliance conference in magnificent Asheville, North Carolina. I know a number of educators who will be hear, teachers and administrators who have dedicated a great deal of their time and formidable creativity to […]

I’ve railed before that it isn’t about blogging.  It’s about communicating.  Classroom blogging affords a unique opportunity to spend less time teaching writing, and more time teaching communication.  That said, this article in BusinessWeek Online caught my attention this morning.
Into The Wild Blog Yonder:
Defense contractors and aerospace companies aren’t known for their openness. After all, […]