21st Century Collaborative

Pre-Conference ChatLast night a group of educators in New Zealand, TUANZ conference organizers, and Miguel Guhlin and I gathered in Elluminate to talk about ICT implementation in New Zealand schools. You can listen/watch the Webcast here. Participants from NZ included Janice ( a principal), Craig Hayman, Wayne and Tom from NSC (Camp Te Anau), Allanah, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Had the exciting priviledge of being interviewed by Steve Hargadon for his EdTalkLive show.EdTechLIVE’s weekly webcast interviews series by  Steve which focus on educational technology. His goal is to produce a library of recordings that provide good, brief introductions to different educational technologies that can be implemented in the K-12 school environment. I was most [...]

I am going to New Zealand! Thanks to the kind recommendation of Wes Fryer I am going to be presenting a series of keynotes and workshops in New Zealand on Web 2.0 and 21st Century teaching and learning concepts. From the conference website: TUANZ Education Conference 2007 Improving teaching, learning and thinking skills with ICT [...]

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 [...]

The truth is that parents of children with technology access at home will ensure that their children have this information advantage. Who will ensure that the children of poverty are given an equal opportunity? Sure– this is a Linux commercial, but forget that. Rather look at the real message. The message of information and how [...]

A friend of mine wrote me this morning and asked if he could use a quote from something I had said on a teacher leadership list to which we both belong for a column that he is writing for NSDC this month on instructional leadership. He had ask the listserv to share educational buzzwords or [...]