21st Century Collaborative

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 [...]

Do you know Kevin Honeycutt? If you do not, you should. He is wise, talented, sincere, loves kids, and wildly funny. Here is a vidcast we did at the recent NCAETC conference. The most fun I have ever had in an interview.

Picked this up via MiddleWeb’s biweekly newsletter- EVERYBODY LOVES FREEBIEShttp://snipurl.com/1vd88You may have visited the Teachers Pay Teachers website in the past.It was started a couple of years ago by teacher Paul Edelman, whoeventually sold it to Scholastic and is now the site’s generalmanager. Good pay, we’d guess. Anyway, you may not know that the sitefeatures [...]

I would go to a comedy show like this.. thanks Lenva for sharing these two I hadn’t seen. Any more you guys? I would have loved to attend this conference- wouldn’t you? Anyone know where these originated?

If I was ever to believe there are computer gremlins, today would have been the day. Today’s Virtual Monday speaker was Vinnie Vrotny and despite the tech issues we had in Elluminate he did a wonderful job. Vinnie’s school is doing some incredible things with their students. You absolutely need to check out his resources [...]

I am preparing for a couple workshops on homelessness I will be giving next week for the NC DOE and came across these two videos. Both caused me to stop and think… reflection is a good thing. Let’s see if they cause you to reflect as well. The one about what we model to children [...]

As long as I am on creativity Darren does a great post on Marco Torres on his blog. He adds more information about the video clip I posted on Digital Students@Analog Schools. Darren says… What’s most interesting about this video is that the kids did it themselves; on their own initiative. It wasn’t for a [...]

Creativity has always come easy for me. I love problem solving, brainstorming, and idea sharing. I remember watching Bewitched as a kid and wanting to grow up and do her husband Darrin Stephen’s job. He was a rising young advertising executive who worked at the New York firm of McMahon and Tate. The shows where [...]