Yesterday I participated in three "synchronous chats" with:

• the moderator at a webcast by the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)
  
• Afra at the help desk of the ASTD
  
• Colleagues in OISE/UT course CTL1602
  

I asked the moderator at KMDI for links referenced by Dr. Gregory Abowd during his lecture -- If a classroom could listen, would anyone care? Experiences with eClass -- of course he provided them himself at the end of his lecture. The moderator, to her credit -- acknowledged my initial inquiry and then confirmed that I'd gotten the URLs from Dr. Abowd's slide.

Afra helped me get into the "Members Only" section of the ASTD's site. Afra was great -- very efficient and helpful. Another neat feature of this chat was that an e-mail containing the chat's transcript was in my e-mail inbox minutes after the chat's conclusion.

I joined classmates in a discussion regarding how best to apply chat for educational purposes -- with an eye to continuing to do just that over the remainder of the term. Being a member of an academic knowledge building community using technology to learn how to educate with technology, is exciting and powerful stuff.

As I said in a post to a course conference for CTL1602:

The power of electronic/ICT/online learning for me comes from the epiphanies along the way.

I was out searching the web for an article called -- Is ISD Really Dead?

I'm not sure who the author is -- or if I even have the right title (if you recognize the title, or can point me to the author, I'd love to hear from you).

While I haven't been able to find this article, I have found articles and papers that pick up this theme, to one degree or another; however, I want to share something I found during my search.

eCLISPSE
~ the e-Learning Centre's e-Learning Intelligence Service
- People, Systems and Environments ~
for learning professionals in higher education, corporate training
and continuing education


Produced by Jane Knight, eCLISPSE is one of the most comprehensive sites of its kind that this student of e-Learning has seen.

It definitely ranks with Jay Cross' internetTime as a "must see" resource for those interested in the theory and practice of e-Learning.

Man, what a week.

Tons of catching up at work and at school.

Next time I travel, I'll be lugging a laptop.

I managed to stay reasonably current while away, but the webmail thing gets old pretty quick.

Besides, now that there's no food or movies on planes, you need a laptop w/ DVD for those 4+ hr flights.

From today's edition of Elliott Masie's "occasional" TechLearn Trends mailing list.

#230- - - Feb. 27, 2002 - - - 42,998 Readers
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***

3. A Very Cool Web Design: I ran across a very cool and intriguing web
site design. This is a graphic model of a website, done by an author of
children’s literature, Jennifer Armstrong. It is interesting in the
richness of the graphic metaphor used on its front page. Check it out at
http://www.jennifer-armstrong.com

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PERCEIVED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY NEEDS SURVEY
Ted Wesley (former doctoral student with Dr. Anderson. Ted is now “Dr. Wesley's assessment is definitely worth a look.

I'd be very interested to hear what teachers, and other interested parties, think of this "in-service" survey.

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