David Winograd forwarded these to me the other day and I lost them in the flurry of blog posts.

Feb 16, 2005
Approved Board Minutes

I sat in on the March 16 meeting. The most important points dealt with consideration of a requirment to require any future surveys of divisional membership to be registered with HQ before the survey could be sent to the division. This was rejected.

The formal minutes from that meeting SHOULD be available. I’ll try to track them down.
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Due to a still-unexplained web server problem, the 2005 Call for Proposals was offline for most of the day Sunday, March 20. The problem has been corrected and the deadline extended till midnight EDT tonight (Monday, March 21).

You still have time to get in a proposal in the second round. The deadline has been extended to March 20.

The new issue of IRRODL has an article on LMS as a tool for restricting learning.

The Internet is independent of device (hardware or platform), distance, and time, and is well-suited for open, flexible, and distributed learning. Yet traditional online, distributed learning methods are anything but flexible, open, or dynamic. What went wrong? Parkin (2004a, b) believes that we failed to appreciate that the Internet is a vehicle for connecting people with each other. We implemented LMS methods that imposed bureaucratic control, diminished learner empowerment, and delivered static information.

It’s a good read and there are more great articles in that issue.

March 15 is the deadline for Orlando. Get your proposals in today!