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As a bonafide advocate of media production and user-generated content creation, I think I’ve had an epiphanal moment: I exist in elements of hypocrisy.  I’m always telling folk how great Web 2.0 is and how powerful the internet has become as an enabler and social connector.  I’m always trying to encourage folk to tell their own stories, craft their narratives and publish them to the world…  But you know what, I dont think I’ve ever taken my own advice!  At least I havent in the past 7 years.

I probably search for, and consume more, content than I would ever consider producing.  I don’t know whether to attribute this inconsistency to apathy, laziness, irrelevancy, or paranoia, but, whatever the case, I’m going to at least try to get back to blogging - and this time with Wordpress!

The Director for The Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, here at the University of Richmond, has been quite adamant that I get back in the game (ie. get my blog on)… and today, October 8th, 2008, the moons, stars and gaseous nebulas have come into alignment.  The psuedo-teechr is back to bloggin’.

For starters, let me tell you what’s on the horizon…  I’m hitting up the EDUCAUSE 2008 conference in Orlando at the end of the month and although I haven’t done anything “EDUCAUSE” since their 2006 Learning Technology Management program, I’ve been told from folks that you need to go to this 9,000+ ed-tech megaconference at least once in your career.  I’ll probably be blogging back and forth about my daily experiences, (and even posting a few pics of the behemoth Adobe , Blackboard and Google booths)…  Check back on 10/27, I’m sure you’ll find something new!