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Travel
- Nope. Kin’s been on the road, but I’m not going anywhere.
- Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach.
Hack Education Writing
- Hack Education Weekly News
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Data and Privacy
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: The Indie Web
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: Social Justice
- Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014: #Fail
- Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
Editing Educating Modern Learners
- Are We Really Listening to Our Students, by Maha Bali
- Lazy Thinking and Commercial Opportunism, by Bruce Dixon
- Beyond Academic Freedom and Dignity, by Cedar Riener
- What You Should Know This Week, by me
- EML Newsletters (Tuesday, Friday)
Other Projects
- Last Sunday, I made The New Inquiry “Sunday Reading List,” for what I think is the first time.
- My article “The Problem with Personalization” was published in the November issue of Australian Educational Leader. (I didn’t realize it had hit the newsstand ’til I saw a tweet from Summer Howarth.
- The panel that Gary Stager proposed – Is It Time to Get Rid of Computers in Schools? – was accepted to ISTE. LOL.
- I had a quick chat with Zac Chase, who’s now at the Department of Education, about ed-tech and equity.
- I recorded my final thoughts for the Ed-Tech Concerns podcast series.
- I’ve made $330 in sales of The Monsters of Education Technology on Gumroad this month. I’m debating whether or not I should post publicly what I’ve made on lectures this year. I think folks believe I’m raking in the cash. I didn’t get paid for a lot of my lectures. I dunno…
- I’m taking part in Mike Caulfield’s Federated Wiki “Happening”. (My wiki is here.) I’m hoping to have a little bit more time to work on this now that I’m done with my Top Ed-Tech Trends series.
- I’m sketching out a major redesign of my sites. I plan to move everything to Jekyll.
Listening and Viewing
- I bought the new D’Angelo album, Black Messiah.
- I watched a few old Colbert Report shows, in the build up to its last night on the air. But I went to bed before the last episode. Because I’m old.
- And I caught up on the final two episodes in this season’s Serial. I dunno... there was this unexamined white privilege that permeated the storytelling. I liked it less and less with each episode.
Family
- The kid is here for a week. I think our only real plans are to eat a lot of food – and do a little bit of Web design. Nerds gonna nerd, I guess.