I’m looking around out in the blogosphere and ran across this item about trust and how it works in meatspace over on Christopher Allen’s blog, Life with Alacrity.
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Consider this the obligatory warning that I’m about to engage in heretical maundering. And before you ask, yes, I realize that I may be cutting my own throat professionally. But that’s true of EVERY post, I make.
How did it happen that a grad student with no credentials, limited reputation, and no standing could become president of the second largest division in AECT?
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One of the problems with this mode of communication is that it’s difficult for people to really *discuss* anything. I talk over here, but few people see, for example, Dick Cornell’s comment on my Report from the Floor. To be “in the loop” you need to have an aggregator that keeps up with those people you want to listen to.
This document explains the shortest path to begin reading weblogs (blogs).
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‘New Marketers of Standards, Accreditation, and Certification’
Judith A. Hale
Author and Consultant
Despite the less than scintilating title, this was a gem of a key note. Took me back to my HPT roots, it did.
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We passed the gavel today. Patty Gilbert is President, Vance Durrington is President-Elect, and I’m stepping back to Past-President.
Several items came from the Board meeting on Wednesday, not the least of which was a nice collection of short term goals. I’m sure Patty will be in touch soon with details but the highlights are the monthly conference call, the mentor pool initiative, the revitalizaion of the Crystal Awards, and the formation of a strategic vision task force for the division.
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Wednesday’s Keynote:
Chris Dede: Emerging Technologies that Enable Distributed-Learning Communities
This is a “morning after” reflection. I beg pardon for lapses and inaccurate paraphrasing. 
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Originally posted: August 4, 2004
I’m back from the in-law’s and finally got to the bottom of my inbox. It’s so humbling to come back to that HUGE pile of spam.
Lately I’ve been talking to some various folks about appropriate research on DE. There seems to be the recurring interest in comparing Distance to Classroom re-surfacing … As my friend called it, “deficit model of DE” — what can we do to DE to “fix it” so it’s more like the classroom?
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Originally posted July 14, 2004
We just need some good candidates to run for president of the division. You don’t need to be of heroic stature. You don’t need to have special qualifications. You don’t need to have experience, really, altho having a grasp of political organization is probably a help 
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Originally posted Jun 30, 2004
Thank you, all, for the wonderful and thoughtful responses. And for the record, I’m not advocating the wholesale replacement of in-person conferences, but I want to examine what we think about this and how inertial thinking may be coloring our perceptions.
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Originally posted Jun 24, 2004
I almost forgot today is Wednesday.
Last week’s note from Al Mizell started me thinking about DE conferences that we have to attend in-person. Is it me, or is there a bit of irony there?
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