Travel (and Speaking)

Nope. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach.

Hack Education Writing

• Hack Education Weekly News
• Hack Education Weekly Newsletter
• Why (Not) Wearables
• The Language of Leadership

Writing Elsewhere

• 2015 Projects on audreywatters.com
• What You Should Know This Week on modernlearners.com
• Top 10 Ed Tech Trends of 2014: Part One on techlearning.com

Other Projects

• I headed back to the gym, after not working out for all of December. Painful.
• I edited the Badass Teachers Association Wikipedia entry.
• Frank Smith interviewed me about my book in Ed-Tech Magazine: “Q&A: Author Audrey Watters on Education Technology’s ‘Monsters’.”
• I made some excellent progress on Reclaim Your Domain. (The manuscript is due at the end of February.)
• I appear in Episode 3 of Reclaiming Education Technology, a documentary by D’Arcy Norman.
• I talked to Education Week’s Ben Herold: “Confronting Ed-Tech’s ‘Monsters’: Q&A With Blogger Audrey Watters.”
• I chatted with George Haines, Bryan Alexander, Yu-Chang Hsu, and Yu-hui Ching about research into educational uses of VoiceThread.
• I talked to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Beth McMurtrie about a story she’s working on.
• I recorded a podcast episode with Adnan Iftekhar, part of his EPT podcast.

Reading

I finished Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy; Wolf in White Van; and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I started Memory Machines and The Marvelous Land of Oz (I’m going to read all the Oz books.) I resumed reading Bad Feminist.

Family

The kid started school this week. He’s enrolled in a phlebotomy program. “It’s weird and kinda scary being back in school,” he says.