| term blended learning is being used with increased frequency in both academic and corporate circles. This hope is embedded in many of the chapters of this book. Education underlies any chance for solving global world problems. In 2003, American Society for Training and Development identified blended learning as one of top ten trends to emerge in industry (Rooney, 2003). In 2002, Chronicle of quoted president of Pennsylvania State University as saying that convergence between online and residential instruction was “the single-greatest unrecognized trend in higher education today” (Young, 2002, p. A33). Perhaps you can add to or remix a part of it in your own unique way. I wish you well in your learning journeys. Use what you can and modify, ignore, or discard the rest. Safe journeys! Also was editor of Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, who in number of hybrid (that is, blended) courses in higher education, possibly to include as many as 80 to 90 percent of all courses (Young, 2002). Fieldwork is hot, sweaty, and difficult, especially when it involves walking over and cliffs on sheep trails, but I not trade it for anything. It is the last day of April 2008. Today an article by Thomas Friedman appeared in the New York Times about how the energy policies of John McCain and Hillary Clinton, two of three remaining presidential candidates in the U.S. During year, I am stuck at my desk reading and writing, dreaming about new discoveries waiting just over next ridge top. summers are my opportunity to get out into sun and air to move around, and I am so happy that I was able to share experience of steep green hills and deep patchwork valleys of central Albania with a group of students. quote above comes from post of UCLA archaeology student Jamie Aprile. Jamie and many of her new are in Albania. Ironically, I had just returned home from attending a speech from Senator Barack Obama at Assembly Hall at IU when this article appeared in an email message from my son. More than 130 students are located around world in dig sites in places like Ecuador, His speech had ended a mere 20 short minutes earlier, but it felt so long ago now, Panama, Chile, Canada, and United States. And as many of these archaeology field end in July and early August, new ones will spring up in northwestern and then a few months later near Cairo, Egypt. Yes, he did address the issue of energy and there was an exhilarating level of energy that was felt for two full hours before Obama arrived. Opportunities also exist in Italy, UK, and Egypt. They are participating in UCLA Archaeology Program which is a joint effort of Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and International Education Office. blogging portion of project has been titled Summer Digs. Jamies post, hosted by UCLA Magazine, was made available for world to read on July 14, 2008. However, the renewal energy I was looking to hear about was educational energy, and in particular, the free online variety that can one day perhaps help every citizen on this planet. It contains rich detail about excavation and activities her team is conducting. Such blog posts are a means friends, parents, readers, and participants at other dig sites. |