Congratulations. I have been reading your blog after Brian Lockwood introduced me to you and spoke so highly of your ideas around technology and education. I was looking for educational and development graduate programmes but of late have been considering a simliar path to yours, but will need to study at least partially from distance perhaps with some summer programmes. Did you consider an on-line or distance approach and did you find any universities that offered anything interesting in the ed tech area?

On a separate path, all of our middle school students at YIS have their own blogs/ digital learning spaces and I am now looking for schools that may want to interact with us. So far most of the comments and interaction has been within the school but with some good posts and projects now on there it would be great to set up some relationships with other schools. We have been experimenting mainly in the English department using this http://yisenglishdept.edublogs.org/ as our hub page and the students’ blogs linked by initial down the side. I know you must now be thinking ahead to next year but might still be possible to set up some links between the schools or even collaborate on future projects…Colin

Phew! That was a long reply! But it is actually the short version! For even more detail, you can read my oh-so-engaging (/sarcasm) Statement of Purpose, which I’ve linked to above. There are individuals at each of the three schools that I really would like to learn with, as I think their research is so relevant. (The Statement of Purpose above is only for NYU, though.)