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Many people are blogging about Higher Ed BloggerCon. Will Richardson has a nice overview of posts from the first several days that can get you started if you haven’t been keeping up.

Christian Long has a good post on contextual advertising. As an alternative to what has been done, he mentions The Deck, a great concept that puts together a tightly-grouped set of content providers that can guarantee a concentrated audience for products.

Clarence Fisher provides this update about the podcasts and vlogs his students have been creating in his classes. He held conferences with them recently and shares some of their thinking as new authors. The results are telling.

We’ve been posting regularly about the releases over at ajaxLaunch, and this week Michael Robertson turns us on to the first public release of eyespot.com, a site for posting and sharing video. Albert Ip has a nice review of the product (as well as the other ajaxLaunch initiatives).

The “New Story” meme is still going strong. This week, Dean Shareski and David Warlick have solid posts on the topic. Also, Gardner Campbell writes this terrific article in which he shares some remarkable things happening with students and learning (a glimpse at the hope offered by the “New Story”).

Finally, Christopher Sessums posts his thoughts about collegiality and collaboration in teacher professional development.

“Collaboration and collegiality take teacher development beyond individual reflection, or reliance on external experts, to a point where educators can learn from one another, sharing and building expertise together.”

This article is full of Sessum’s usual thoughtfulness and documentation.