Letter to the PLP Staff (Community Building 101 Series)

Posted on January 24, 2011 by in Change, CLC, Creativity & Innovation, innovation, Leadership, Learning, Learning communities, passion based learning, Personal, Professional Development, service learning, Social networking, Teacher Leadership

Dear Staff, I have been thinking of you today. Thinking about your various roles within Powerful Learning Practice. Thinking about how I can help you (us) be more passionate about what you (we) do and how I can provide vision, hope, trust and inspiration as the leader of our company. This is “our” company you [...]

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Learning to Learn

Posted on August 9, 2008 by in 21st Century Teaching, Blogging, Change, Community of Practice, Connectivism, Creativity & Innovation, Curriculum, Edublogger, innovation, Learning, Learning communities, Netgeners, networking, New Tools, passion based learning, Professional Development, Social networking, teacher 2.0, Teacher Leadership, Teaching, Technology, Weblogs, Wikis

My life has been a whirlwind of activity since NECC and I have found it hard to keep up with blogging. I don’t know why, but I feel guilty blogging when I have other deadlines looming. Do any of you experience that? Is it illogical? Should I blog anyway, much like we still get the [...]

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Powerful Learning Practice – Personal Impact

Posted on July 11, 2008 by in 21st Century Teaching, Community of Practice, Connectivism, Creativity & Innovation, Curriculum, Edublogger, K12online08, Leadership, Learning, Learning communities, Mentoring & Induction, networking, New Tools, Professional Development, Social networking, teacher 2.0, Teaching, Technology, Weblogs

Man, I love this work! Connecting and collaborating is something that really comes natural for me. I am the social cognitive learning theory poster child and I am finding that others also relate well to learning while observing and collaborating with others. Working with others online on common goals in an effort to improve education [...]

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Social Networking and Class Warfare

Posted on August 8, 2007 by in Social networking

Just came across a very cool article Social Networking and Class Warfare over on Newsweek. I was alerted of the article on friend and colleague Nancy Flanagan’s blog Teacher in a Strange Land. Nancy says, It seems as though Facebook is the social networking platform for preppies and strivers, while MySpace attracts burnouts, rebels and [...]

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