21st Century Collaborative

I had the opportunity recently to facilitate a group of business, education, political and community leaders in a discussion about developing a workforce ready group of graduates in the 21st Century. I was given the task of relaying the experience. I have decided to share with you to see if you agree or disagree with [...]

A primary school has been accused of being alarmist for covering up the faces of pupils on its website – apparently to protect them from pedophiles. Bizarrely, the images have been altered with the type of smiley faces popular during the Acid House dance craze of the 1980s. The decision was taken at Cann Hall [...]

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.

Interesting discussion over on Student 2.0 by Sean (the bass player) a student in Scotland and a group of teachers. The post was inspired from some well meant questions from a caring American adult (teacher) who was chatting with Sean at 1:30am (Scotland). I think it was more the perceived inferences Sean drew from the [...]

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 [...]

A group of teacher leaders were discussing Web 2.0 tools recently. A friend of mine posted this… Hey Guys, Had an interesting interaction today—-I had a parent stumble onto a discussion board that is hosted on the main page of the wiki service that I use.  This is a page hosted by the wiki company—not [...]