21st Century Collaborative

Have you heard of the Teaching Channel? Neither had I until a talented video producer gave me a call and asked if I would be willing to serve as a pedagogical expert in a short professional development video. My task: Coach a first-year social studies teacher through the process of integrating social media into her [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]