Travel

• Nope. I did book travel to Eugene OR (where I’ll be next week and again the week after) and to Madison WI (where I’ll be speaking in August).
• Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach and Eugene.

Hack Education

• Hack Education Weekly News
• Hack Education Weekly Newsletter, No. 111
• The Flying Classroom: The Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction

Essays Elsewhere

• Testing: Moving Beyond the PR Battle on modernlearners.com
• What You Should Know This Week on modernlearners.com
• The Flying Classroom: The Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction on educationfuturisim.com

Speaking

• Alan Levine and I had a great conversation on Friday about ed-tech and equity as part of the Connected Learning webinar series leading up to DML this summer. Here’s a link to our talk. And here’s a link to Alan’s write-up of the webinar.

Known Notes and Fragments

• Ed-Tech Disclosure Bot
• Superheroes MOOC: The Reading List
• Invasive Species and Precious Heirloom Learners #Rhizo15
• Beverly Hills Synecdoche

Other Projects

• I wrote a piece on Domain of One’s Own initiatives for Bright. (Publication date TBD.)
• Kin and I had lunch with Adam Croom from OU.
• I successfully completed Week 1 of the Smithsonian/edX Superhero MOOC.
• I had a brief chat with Teaching Tolerance about an article I’m writing for them
• I talked with Elizabeth Childs from Royal Roads about its graduate program on learning and technology
• I backed the Feminist Deck project on Kickstarter

Reading and Viewing

• I finished Paul Saettler’s The Evolution of American Educational Technology
• I started reading Frank Pasquale’s The Black Box Society
• I read Robert Galbraith’s The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm
• I watched Top Five

Family and Friends

• It was a really tough week family-wise, for reasons that I’m not comfortable sharing right now. And I anticipate the next few weeks to continue to be challenging.