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.

Sheryl's excellent adventure started in Australia! I was invited to keynote the ELH conference in Victoria, Australia.  As I was preparing to go an amazing thing happened that shows the power of the network. I had announced on Twitter I was going and lo and behold the most wonderful direct message came through, "Hi Sheryl are you interested in staying over at our place in Portarlington during your visit http://snurl.com/3hdn0?" John Pearce / mrpbps. John is an amazing author, presenter, and scientist. His wisdom about flor.

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 day to day things done at work or home, even when we have extra tasks on our "to do" lists. Or should I put 100% of my attention toward the deadlines and follow Grandmas’ rule of "work before play"? I’d love to hear your take. D.

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 has impacted my personal practice more than any other type of learning I have ever experienced. I believe it is largely due to the impact situated communities of practice and networks have on self-efficacy. The up.

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.

Quite a few teacher leaders have been joining the blogosphere as of late. Looking for some provocative new bloggers to add to your aggregator? These thought provoking practitioners will NOT let you down. Teacher Leaders Nerwork BLOGS Bill Ferriter - The Tempered Radicalhttp://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/ Nancy Flanagan - Teacher in a Strange Landhttp://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teacher_in_a_strange_land/ Renee Moore - TeachMoorehttp://teacherleaders.typepad.com/teachmoore/ TLN Teacher Voices (excerpts from our daily conver.

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 .

Ok. I have a question. So two days ago I finally added a cluster map to my blog. I was able to track world visitors in my site counter, but it isnt public. So I decided to follow the lead of many of you and add one for public viewing. But I am confused. Here is a tracking map of the last 100 hits. I average about 40 hits per day, but since I posted the cluster map it only is showing US hits. Yet, the map below shows several hits outside of the US. Is it a setting I am missing?

I was over at  Around the Corner where Miguel Guhlin posts, reading his latest Girls and their Gadgets I was moved. I so identified with the ideas and feelings he expressed. I’m sorry, I see the benefits, but it appears that giving kids access to  the Read/Write web is like putting a loaded pistol in their hands without education. And, how many kids have to be bullied online before everyone wakes up (no, not you edubloggers…the other people who haven’t read your blogs) and realizes that digital citizenship, that &nb.

Creativity has always come easy for me. I love problem solving, brainstorming, and idea sharing. I remember watching Bewitched as a kid and wanting to grow up and do her husband Darrin Stephen’s job. He was a rising young advertising executive who worked at the New York firm of McMahon and Tate. The shows where he had to come up with a clever idea for a product were my favorite. When I started teaching I put as much of my creativity into my delivery and assignments as possible. I would take whole walls and turn them into creative displa.