21st Century Collaborative

              Wes, Darren and I have been selected to give a panel presentation on the K12Online 2006 Conference in San Antonio on March 30. However we want our panel to have more diversity than just the conveners perspective. We would love to have a K12 Online Conference participant and presenter join [...]

Had the exciting priviledge of being interviewed by Steve Hargadon for his EdTalkLive show.EdTechLIVE’s weekly webcast interviews series by  Steve which focus on educational technology. His goal is to produce a library of recordings that provide good, brief introductions to different educational technologies that can be implemented in the K-12 school environment. I was most [...]

How Humbling!I am a little late in announcing my deep satisfaction at the K12 Online 2006 Conference being announced as the Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation by the EduBlogs Awards. Darren posts over at A Difference: K12 Online 2006 was also nominated in the category of Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation. Sheryl, Wes [...]

I had a neat collaborative experience a few days ago with Mark Wagner over at Educational Technology and Life. He was on Skype, and I needed a fresh pair of eyes to look at the abstract I was writing for my keynote in New Zealand-. We collaboratively edited the piece down to 150 words. The [...]

Watching my kids play Guitar Hero and was reminded of the the Pink Floyd song  ‘Another Brick in the Wall’. The   lyrics of this song contain the words “We   don’t need no education”, sung in a dirge-like tone.  Then shouting the lyrics… “Teachers,   leave those kids alone.”   This song is a [...]

I am going to New Zealand! Thanks to the kind recommendation of Wes Fryer I am going to be presenting a series of keynotes and workshops in New Zealand on Web 2.0 and 21st Century teaching and learning concepts. From the conference website: TUANZ Education Conference 2007 Improving teaching, learning and thinking skills with ICT [...]

It has taken me awhile to get this up.  Spent a few days at the National Staff Development Council Conference at the beginning of the month.  I stayed at the Gaylord Opyland hotel which was like a "Disney" experience in and of itself. I presented two three hour workshops. One  was for Microsoft about their [...]

Great time over at Women of Web 2.0 last night. David Warlick and I were the invited guests. We had a wonderful time talking about K12 Online, the recent Time article on How to Build a Student for the 21st Century, qualitative and quantitative research around social networking issues, professional  development, and more. David was [...]

David Murray blogs over at Cycling 4 Life and we share a passion for cycling. I was on his site and saw where he shared the best illustration of Einstein’s quote, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Imagination is "the act or power of forming mental images of what is not present; the act or [...]

The K12 Online Conference blog has been nominated for the 2006 Edublog Awards. The educational Blogger community has nominated the K12 Online Conference blog for this year’s International Edublog Awards in the category of ‘Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation’! The nomination of the K12 Online Conference is a great credit to all the presenters, [...]