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VSTE 2011 is coming!

Tomorrow morning I head out to the 2011 VSTE Annual Conference. VSTE stands for the Virginia Society for Technology in Education and is probably the largest gathering of educational technologists in this state. It's hard to believe that this will be my 5th year at the conference. In

Expanding the Media Network at DTLT

Back in July shortly after starting my job at UMW I began talking to Jim about the possibility of doing a video podcast. It would have to be something that wasn't relatively long, but a daily thing where we'd reflect on all manner of subjects. I

I <3 Gravity Forms

The more I use Gravity Forms for Wordpress here at UMW, the more I am constantly impressed by such a full-featured and flexible plugin. This is not some shill paid post. I've used Wordpress for 5 years now developing sites and themes and my discovery of Gravity Forms

SodaStream comes to DTLT Today

2 weeks ago I just happened to be thinking about items you could buy that would end up "paying for themselves" in some way. You always here about items like programmable thermostats that end up saving enough money in the short term to be worth the investment. I

MakerBots in Education

[caption id="attachment_306" align="aligncenter" width="580" caption="Image Credit: Bre Pettis"][/caption] Have you ever heard of a MakerBot? It's a 3D printer that basically "prints" melted plastic onto layers, building almost any digital model into

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