21st Century Collaborative

A year or two ago I had the pleasure of teaching/learning with a group of very sharp graduate preservice teachers. Today I find this in my mailbox.———————————————–Hi Sheryl!It’s XXXXX. In case you can’t remember me, I was in your technology class at William and Mary a couple of years ago. But of course you remember [...]

“There’s a growing awareness among some educators that American public schools may not be adequately preparing children to compete in a global economy,” says a story in Business Week magazine (09/05/07), which highlights the work of schools involved in the 21st Century Learner project of the Alabama Best Practices Center. The story, titled “Back to [...]

Thanks to Terri Willingham for the link: http://www.zotero.org/ Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open- source web [...]

For those teacher leaders who served as mentors in the ENDAPT project last year or the year before, I wanted to share some good news!   The content analysis research Dr. Chris Gareis and I did on the computer mediated conversations that took place within our online mentoring community for novice teachers has won a [...]

Scroll Down for Message! Time for a new blog meme to help us spread the word about the upcoming K12Online07 conference. Please share either three (3) reasons to participate based on your experience from last year or (if you didn’t attend last year) three (3) things you hope to gain from the experience this year. [...]

The time is fast approaching for the kickoff of the International K12Online07 Conference for educators by educators! We hope that you will help us spread the word! The phenomenal PR committee has prepared a slurry of messages and media to help us get the most novice of tech users involved. If you would like to [...]

I recently traveled to Shanghai China to present at the International Schools’ Learning 2.0 conference. I was part of a presentation team brought in that included such names as Alan November, Jamie McKenzie, Will Richardson, Gary Stager, Wes Fryer, and Chris Shambles. If you would like to know more about the conference itself search the [...]

Wes Fryer took this pic from Jeff Utecht’s balcony in Shanghai Reflection Time We are home from Shanghai, I have hugged all my children and distributed the gifts. Each time I told the story highlighting my week in Shanghai, China it became more and more real. What an amazing week. The conference itself was worth [...]

Today is the final day of the Learning 2.0 Conference. I will have time to post after today. YEAH!If you would like to follow my sessions you can access them all here:http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/Learning+2.0+%28China%29Will Richardson and I co-presented yesterday. There are some great notes on the Ning site from participants. http://learning2cn.ning.com/ My son Noah, Alan November’s son [...]

How many times have you sat in a conference presentation or inservice feeling like you were not getting your needs met? How often have you wished during a presentation you could ask a question, get clarification, make a comment or get other expert feedback about the topic being discussed- but the format just didn’t support [...]