Will this year be different?
Every year, most of us who spend time in Ed Tech-land come back from a summer spent fixing, upgrading, enhancing, and developing, excited for the possibilities of a new year. Without students and teachers around, we might have had a chance to work and experiment unfettered, discovering a new open source tool that could be great for classroom use or a new vendor whose latest product was worth shuffling budgets if we could just get their tools into students' hands.