This summer has been exhausting ... pretty much literally. As you all know by now I will be at the University of Kentucky in the fall (my name is listed now) and I am moving down to Lexington tomorrow, officially (that's right "I" - no movers - I will try to get some pics up at my homepage later of the misery). But, as much as I had hoped, not everything wrapped up cleanly here in Bloomington, IN at IU, either (no worries, it will all be fine, but I was hoping to be done by now). So, I am sort of having to live in 2 places at the moment ... and that comes at the expense of my other home away from home, the Web. Anyway, since I am a single man operation here, the Snippets are going to miss their first week since I started them at the beginning of March.

But, just to do something to keep the habit alive, I am going to let you get your own snippets by explaining the process I use to gather them every week.

The best place that I know to look for the snippet stories is Stateline, which is compiled by PEW. I go through all of their education stories each week and pick out the ones that relate to the law that have not already been picked up by one of the other ed. law bloggers. Also, I watch most of the major papers with bookmarks in Firefox. A lot of the major papers and news organizations these days have education RSS feeds, so I have aggregated some of those in my aggregator. I also run through some of the e-mail services I get such as ASCD Smartbrief, ECS E-Clips, NSBA Legal Clips, and some more. I also have bookmarked a lot of education video services, such as predefined searches of YouTube, CNN/ABC et al. education related news stories, NPR news, PBS' Newshour, AfterEd, and a few others. Plus I get e-mails from others around the country that I typically include if relevant. That's how I compile the news snippets.

The Ed. Law Blog roundup is a lot easier, but it takes just as long because everything is relevant. I just basically use my aggregator. It lets me know how long ago everyone posted their items, so I review everything that was posted this week if I have not read it already. From a quick review, it looks like there is a lot of good stuff this week in the ed. law blogosphere, so please check it all out. After I look at the standard 20 or so educational law specific blogs, depending on time, I hit up some of my other favorites outside of ed. law. Usually this includes ed. tech. blogs, ed. policy blogs, and some of the more famous legal blawgs.

Lastly, since I spend a lot of time on the Net, I note the things I found fun or interesting and use those for the Friday Snippets. When I didn't come across anything particularly fun that week, I go with a backup Seinfeld clip or music video.

Anyway, there you have it. My Friday Snippet procedures. If there are places I should be looking you did not see here, please let me know.

Now, off to take all the nails out of the wall (and my wife loves pictures, so there's a lot).