The author has surveyed educational technologists who gained tenure between 1999 and 2004 to determine where they published. We seem to have two communities at work, those who seek to publish their work on the Interweb and those who seek the established route or peer reviewed publication.

Although it remains to be seen how Congress will react to his proposed cost cutting measures in education (a decrease of $3.5 billion, or 5.5%, from 2006 funding), many of the major sources used to fund ELL programs may receive the same amount of funding as in 2006.

If we really want to talk about "personal learning environments", we should be very explicit about our assumptions on how the overall circumstances are (very likely) developing and what kind of interventions remain possible under these emerging conditions.