As a scholar, I am driven by the notion of being a public intellectual. To this end, while early in my career I published a few articles in standard, peer-reviewed journals, I am now fully committed to publishing only in open spaces. That means, among other things, that I will only submit “academic” articles to peer-reviewed, open-access journals.
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I also continue to engage in multiple forms of digital scholarship, including publishing to my blog Educational Insanity (http://edinsanity.com). This continues to be a place where I can publish my ideas about education, technology and school leadership. It is also a space where I can interact around those ideas with peers from around the world. From September 1, 2009 through April 21, 2010, 1,453 absolute unique visitors came to my blog 1,826 times and viewed 3,302 pages. .
It is worth pointing out a series of posts that received a lot of attention throughout the educational technology community. Dr. Robert Marzano conducted a study of interactive white boards (IWB) commissioned by Promethean, one of the leading vendors of IWBs. Dr. Marzano is going around the country speaking about his research which I have determined to be extremely shoddy. I wrote a five-part critique (a “peer-review”) of his study on my blog. Part 1 of that series (http://edinsanity.com/2009/06/02/marzano_part1/) was published on June 2, 2009. Between the dateof posting and the middle of May 2010, it was viewed 1,403 times by 1,136 unique viewers. Part 2 (http://edinsanity.com/2009/06/03/marzano_part2/) was viewed 558 times. As a point of comparison, an article I wrote that was published in Education Policy Analysis Archives has been viewed 2,481 times since February 13, 2007. The first part of the Marzano critique has been viewed more than half the number of times of the traditionally peer-reviewed journal in about 20% of the time.