21st Century Collaborative

One of my preservice teachers posted this today… One of our assignments throughout the semester has been to maintain a blog about our pre-service teaching experiences. Prof. Nussbaum-Beach has also encouraged us to get our students blogging. Thus far, I have been somewhat skeptical on the idea, as it seems logistically challenging to implement. However, [...]

A group of teacher leaders were discussing Web 2.0 tools recently. A friend of mine posted this… Hey Guys, Had an interesting interaction today—-I had a parent stumble onto a discussion board that is hosted on the main page of the wiki service that I use.  This is a page hosted by the wiki company—not [...]

And the final podcast of 4 from my keynote for the NAEHCY conference. This shares valuable information that the homeless need you to know when working  with them, especially the 5 Es of blossoming. This clip also gives 7 tips of what you should do if you ever find yourself homeless. Click below to play [...]

As promised here is the 3rd podcast in a series of 4 from my NAEHCY conference keynote. This one relates my experiences after high school and into adulthood. Embedded are many stories and a theoretical justification about why we should use technology and inquiry driven approaches when working with high poverty populations. Specific examples of [...]

While I will be sharing Part 3 & 4 of my keynote, (see previous posts) I didn’t want to let too much time slip by before I bragged a little on Ohio! This seems very appropriate considering their outstanding win in last night’s game. Check out the pics from the breakout sessions! On Thursday of [...]

As promised, here is the next segment of my keynote at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth. If you haven’t joined NAEHCY, you ought to consider it. DisclaimerAs a disclaimer, this post and podcast have nothing to do with technology or Web 2.0 per se, except to help the reader [...]

I have decided to share my keynote from the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth conference to help create an awareness about homeless children and to debunk some of the myths, as well to help those of you in the Web 2.0 world to make a connection to the urgency of [...]

On Monday, I had the most awesome time delivering the keynote at the National Assoc. for the Edc. of Homeless Children and Youth conference. Where a caring group of homeless service providers, policy makers, higher education, K12 teachers, administrators and other interested stakeholders gathered, all with the goal of advocacy for those who can’t advocate [...]

If you have viewed any (even one or just part of one) of the presentations for the 2006 K-12 Online Conference, please take a few minutes and complete the post-conference online evaluation form. The deadline for submitting the survey is Sunday November 12, 2006. Input is anonymous, and will be both shared and used to improve [...]

I really like reading what Taran Rampersad has to say. Taran is a computer consultant, software developer, and educator for the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies and blogs at KnowProSE.com He picked up on my post Schooling for Tomorrow:Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide and specifically on the clip (Linux commercial) [...]