May 2019

The Grantmakers for Education Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2018-19 survey results were released in February. It highlights education funding priorities, including the shifts away from K12 reforms to social and emotional learning, as well as postsecondary and early education. The Edfunders.org website has also aggregated the roster of associated articles that have resulted, including […]

Missouri State University held a Web Accessibility Summit this week. While the Summit is over, the slides for many sessions are available on the conference website. Also, you can contact the presenters on Twitter and watch a few of the session recordings. Good stuff! Thank you for sharing!

During our Open Door Collective quarterly conference call today, Jen Vanek updated the group on the Digital Equity Act. As I posted a few months back, the act would encourage the creation of state digital equity plans and includes competitive implementation grants to address digital inclusion. The National Digital Inclusion Alliance has now produced a

Last week, the American Library Association (ALA) released the Libraries’ Guide to the 2020 Census. Released under a Creative Commons CC-By License, the guide is a joint effort by the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and the ALA. As noted in the release email, the guide contains information for library staff as they support patrons during the 2020

Last week, I received an email that the Chicago Citywide Literacy Coalition (CCLC) announced its adoption of the Illinois Digital Learning Lab. Here’s a link to the email announcement for those interested in applying either as a Lab participant or subject matter expert.

A couple of recent articles from Inside Higher Education remind us why those of us embedded in the research and practice of online learning need to speak up or risk the outcomes of others making decisions without us. An article titled “Plug-and-Play Online Courses: Innovation or Dystopia?” describes the consequences when instructors are handed a

Congratulations to my “baby” nephew and his new wife! It was a beautiful weekend to celebrate Will and Annie Foy.

A couple of days ago, JR Dingwall linked to a very timely post by David Wiley that describes the attribution PLACEMENT obligations under a Creative Commons license. To be honest, this issue of where to attribute has always been a fuzzy point for me when you are using excerpts across a multi-page/sectioned work. I’m currently

As happens, I was doing one thing on the internet and ended up somewhere else – a very happy somewhere else. What started as a quick Twitter reply to George Veletsianos on a project of interest, landed me on his blog to read more about the project. To my excitement, I saw a familiar name.

Yesterday, I posted that I created a digital Accessibility Advocate badge. In creating the badge, I struggled with the symbol or icon to use on the badge to represent “accessibility”. Today, I did a brief bit of Googling and see that I’m not alone in my struggle. Early in my Googling, I came across an