21st Century Collaborative

Kia ora from New Zealand. The 5th of June is World Environment Day – an international initiative of the United Nations Environment Programme.   This year,  New Zealand is co-hosting the day, and we have a range of activities and initiatives planned. To recognise the importance of the day, all our schools & kura, and our [...]

We all need some time not online. Here is how I spend mine. Thank goodness for holidays! I am sitting on the front of the boat taking pics!David and Travis are on the jetski, Amber and Jimmy in the tube and Noah and Grace (not pictured) are on the back of the boat.The island in [...]

While I obviously haven’t been blogging- I have been fast at it. I would say I have been busy, but Dean Shareski (our new convener for K12Online)  has taught me we are all busy and I am not suppose to talk about how busy I am, but rather just talk about what I have been [...]

What does music, film, live performances, laughter, passion, reculturation and blogging for charity have in common?– Western NY’s Powerful Learning Practice’s culminating celebration! Holland’s team performing a remake of "This Land is my Land" into a Web 2.0 Song May 22, 2008- 20 school teams in the Western New York region came together to celebrate [...]

Today, new and emerging Web technologies are connecting our children in ways never before possible. Through blogs, social networking sites, multimedia and other ‘Web 2.0′ tools, their worlds are becoming more and more networked and engaging, creating environments for learning and collaborating that look little like our traditional classroom spaces. And they are not alone [...]

John Norton on TLN threw out an interesting challenge around a six-word memoir. Someone on the list called this game a limited-word writing   activity "American haiku". I found the activity so interesting I tossed it to my Twitter community. The results were delightful! I Tweeted: On TLN we are playing a game- Six-Word Memoirs- [...]

We are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the third annual “K12 Online Conference” for educators around the world interested in the use of web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled for October 20-24 and October 27-31 of 2008, and will include a pre-conference keynote during the [...]

Hot off Net-Gold list via Sue Fraser Citing the growing demand from the public and the scientific community for access to research data, The Rockefeller University Press has revised its copyright policy to allow authors to retain the rights to work published in its three journals. The policy, which became effective May 1, applies to [...]