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Embarrassingly, I have to admit that I have never intentionally attempted to tune in to the President’s weekly radio address. Why? Well it probably has to do with my age and with the medium that has been used my entire life. While I listen to the radio on occassion, I’ve never been a fan of radio broadcast. It just didn’t catch my attention. Now enters my personal learning network. With the evolution of the read / write web, I find myself searching for information that I can apply to my daily life, professional career, and personal interests.

If you were to dive into my Google Reader account, you would see updated RSS feeds from Ed Tech, classroom teachers, national speakers, authors, friends, and many gadgets waiting for review. Now I have a Politics folder populated with President Elect Obama’s weekly addresses hosted on YouTube, with thanks to ChangeDotGov. Now this content comes directly to my list of unread feeds.
So what changes have you noticed in this transition to a new Commander In Chief? Am I the only one that sees a change that has made a difference, even if it is only on a shallow level?

Here’s an interesting article:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/11/obama_says_yes.html

In the past few days, I’ve had some experiences that truly illustrate why an open source community really is better for communities of learning and working. Our online learning community requires a support contract. Just recently, the module that allows us to send e-mail to our students has decided to evaporate. It is completely gone! One would think that you could find an online community of people willing to help out. Not so. The only solutions that are listed are behind closed doors for ‘clients.’

I decided to look at some open source alternatives out there. I searched for similar errors and found wikis, e-groups, discussion boards, and personal websites all with open arms hoping to help you…..and at no charge. This seems to be a driving force for many people to leave the ‘big box’ software companies and take a leap of faith when setting an alternative like Moodle or Sakai.

So I figured that if I was paying a monthly fee to host my site, blog, center of attention, that I might keep the blog up to date. We’ll see. I just figure if I’m going to talk the talk, I need to walk the walk.

Have I mentioned how much I love Wordpress?

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