Spotlight NECC08 Session with Will Richardson This session will describe the work done by the presenters in creating a sustainable model for ongoing professional development using 21st Century technologies. I have to admit that we were nervous about this presentation. Not the presentation part (Will and I do this "on stage" thing together a lot) [...]

I left the conference a little disjointed — not sure why and decided to reflect transparently and see if any of you (my community of readers) can help me sort it out. Please comment below. I welcome your thoughts. First let me say that meeting so many folks f2f (if I tried to list here [...]

K12Online08 Call for Proposals: Amplifying Possibilities (due July 11 2008 – Extended till 1 week after NECC!)  The Magic of Digital: Collaborative Interaction in Teacher Professional Development   Wes Fryer, Darren Kuropatwa, and Dean Shareski and I gave a presentation at NECC entitled  “The Magic of Digital: Collaborative Interaction in Teacher Professional Development” – it [...]

I have been spending some time recently responding to a listserv discussion that has many brilliant, award winning teachers on it who are not sold on the idea that we really are going to have to change education to remain relevant; that *they* are going to have to change.  I thought I would share my [...]

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- [...]