A note on me and full disclosure

As a reporter, I believe it's important to try to avoid entanglements and stay relatively independent. But given my freelance budget, I've also got to accept payments for much of my travel and speaking. So I'll do my best to be transparent about which organizations are paying my way when I attend conferences. Last month, I blogged about the Joan Ganz Cooney symposium after having moderated a panel there on literacy technologies. In that case, the Cooney center paid for my travel and hotel. The NAEYC institute that I just blogged about was on my dime. The next conference (IDC '08, which I'll start writing about tonight) is at Northwestern. I've been invited to facilitate a panel about "screen cultures," and IDC '08 is sponsoring my travel, lodging and a small honorarium.