21st Century Collaborative

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) [...]

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 [...]

There is a price to be paid for community driven learning- TIME. There are only so many hours in a day to invest in reading, learning, writing, and all that goes with being part of a community of learners. The benefits far outweigh the cost, so I am not complaining, however, it is beginning to [...]

I have been reflecting this morning on community and its place in my life and learning. Communal Living and CommunityMy first experiences happened as a young woman living on The Farm, the largest successful commune in America. It was there that I first began to see the power of relationships in enabling others toward positive [...]

In this day and age of school reform, many are looking to how we train teachers as the key to educational improvement. Research shows that on average school districts spend the equivalent of $200 per pupil on professional development and these learning experiences add both time and effort demands on a teachers already impossible day [...]