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 these leaders’ ideas and action steps and why. I encourage you to read and weigh in in the comment section below. I look forward to your responses. Executive Summary Newport News Public Schools is moving quickly to address.

This post may be premature as I have only seen 2/3s of the PLP Independent Schools’ team presentations of their impact journey through PLP and team projects- but I must say, Will and I were more than impressed. It was more on the level of WOW. From extensive summer institutes with a Web 2.0 registration process for other schools to attend (all taught by the team members) to an 8th grade project that will utilize the best that Web 2.0 has to offer in a project based format implemented by all 8th grade teachers next year to a creative Lunc.

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.

Wow. Talk about blown away! My students have been emailing me with excitement each time Anne Davis or anyone for that matter leaves them a comment. One of my students took joy in letting each one know they are not "special" in that Anne comments on everyone’s blog. Well, just a few minutes ago I found out just how special my class is to have someone like Anne reading their first attempts at blogging. Check out what she wrote- I hope Anne will forgive me for reposting her blog here, but in my opinion it warrants repeating. Youâ€.

Each Monday this semester my elementary preservice education students have been hearing from a variety of educational bloggers, many of them practicing classroom teachers, via  Elluminate on how they use technology to teach content based objectives. (See the class wiki) Jeff Utecht had the tough job of his vitual Monday falling on April 16, the day of the Va Tech shootings. In addition, he had to get up at 2am (Shanghai time) to present.  He did an amazing job! Here is a copy of his archive if you would like to see what he had to shar.

Interesting discussion over on Will’s site.  University of Michigan is offering a M.A. specialization in Social Computing. Here’s the list of courses you have to take: SI 508: Networks: Theory and Application (3 credits) SI 532 Digital Government I: Information Technology and Democratic Politics (1.5 credits) SI 583: Recommender Systems (1.5 credits) SI 631: Content Management Systems (3 credits) SI 679: Aggregation and Prediction Markets (1.5 credits) SI 683: Reputation Systems (1.5 credits) SI 684: eCommunities: Analysis.

59th AACTE Annual Meeting & Exhibits(American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education) FROM VISION TO ACTION         February 24-27, 2007         Hilton New York Had a great time at AACTE this year. This was my second time presenting at this conference! Last year was in California, this year New York and boy was it cold! I even got to drive in  a snow storm on the way home. Lots of over turned cars on the highway and in the ditch. Before presenting, I attended the Teacher Le.

Vicky Rocked the HouseVicki Davis graciously agreed to present during a Virtual Monday for my EDUC 330 course. She rocked the house. But did you really expect any less? Her presentation is on wikis. The archive can be viewed here. Her page on the class wiki can be viewed here and it has all her resources and the presentation she used. The students have been contacting me in Skype all buzzing about how much they understood and enjoyed what she taught. I first "met" Vicki as one of the presenters for the K-12Online Conference of which .

Tech Enhanced Learning Anne Davis is an amazing teacher and woman. Yesterday my students had the priviledge of spending 50 minutes with her chatting as though we were having tea around the kitchen table. Anne style is so natural and relaxed that she makes you feel like all of this is really doable. The students loved her. I first met Anne through another precious Web friend, Darren Kurpatowa, who is a secondary math teacher in Canada. I met Darren through his blog. Anne and I also worked together during the K12Online Conference where she gave .