21st Century Collaborative

Mark Wagner http://www.edtechlife.com/ and I taught a two hour session in Elluminate last night to 22 Alabama teachers who are part of the ABPC 21st Century Teaching Initiative. It is a project  I co-lead with Cathy Gassenheimer, President of the Alabama Best Practice Center and John Norton, educational writer and virtual learning community expert. Mark [...]

Vicky Rocked the HouseVicki Davis graciously agreed to present during a Virtual Monday for my EDUC 330 course. She rocked the house. But did you really expect any less? Her presentation is on wikis. The archive can be viewed here. Her page on the class wiki can be viewed here and it has all her [...]

Tech Enhanced Learning Anne Davis is an amazing teacher and woman. Yesterday my students had the priviledge of spending 50 minutes with her chatting as though we were having tea around the kitchen table. Anne style is so natural and relaxed that she makes you feel like all of this is really doable. The students [...]

Public relations professionals and journalists often work together, and sometimes they even get along.With citizen journalism on the rise yet another layer of the onion is being pulled back as we think through how networks and the resulting emerging connections will shape from whom and how we get  information. Andy Carvin features several short videos [...]

I was over at Bud’s site and read his post about the leadership meme. Bud is a teacher leader if there ever was one. Teacher leadership is more than leading your students and being a darn good teacher. Teacher leadership is about reaching out past the four walls of your classroom and leading other teachers. [...]

I found Vance Steven’s Moodle course entitled Mulitliteracies for a Digital Age. Vance Stevens is a Lecturer in Computing at Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi. I am taken with the resources he has collected and can’t wait to absorb all that I am reading. His Course Description A multiliterate teacher understands the many ways that [...]

One more tracking tool to make me feel I don’t measure up. <wink> Chris Craft put out this meme. This is a completely lame attempt to start a meme, more for my own curiosity than anything. If high speed internet access is considered a strong flattening affect, it would be interesting to see how fast [...]

Traffic, Hits, and RatingsI have never been motivated to have a well thought out marketing plan for encouraging traffic to my blog. Mostly, because I am simply too busy to be as prolific a poster as some of my friends in the blogosphere. Don’t get me wrong, when I get comments on what I have [...]

I had the best time in Elluminate on Tuesday and Wednesday listening to the Advanced Teams (ABPC 21st Century teaching and learning project) tell about their Learning 2.0 projects. The highlight of both evenings was the guest visit with Chris Craft, a Spanish teacher in South Carolina and  Allanah King, a teacher from New Zealand. [...]