21st Century Collaborative

Larry Ferlazzo has started putting together various “Best Of” lists for this year, starting out with his picks for the best Web 2.0 applications for education.  Check it out! He starts off with the fourteenth best and ends with what he thinks is the best one.  "I’ve chosen Vi.sualize.us as my fourteenth pick.  It’s a [...]

Computer World NZ posted this article after attending my workshop given in Wellington, New Zealand. They just about got it right, only two minor errors. First, as I was introducing Will Richardson who greeted the Kiwi educators through Skype, I shared a story he tells about Wikipedia (crediting him)– in this report they left that [...]

This is who we teach. This is the medium they use. We need to speak in their native tongue.

Rick Broida over at LifeHacker posted this about the newest search engine Ms. Dewey. Google? Yahoo? Dogpile? BO-RING! Who says a search engine can’t be innovative, entertaining, and easy on the eyes? That’s the idea behind Ms. Dewey, a comely, "interactive" librarian who stands around waiting for you to type a search term–and throws out [...]

Exciting was the word of the day as 200 teachers, administrators, and other educational leaders gathered in Birmingham, Alabama for the second year kick-off of the ABPC 21st Century Teaching and Learning Project. The purpose of the 21st Century OctoberFest was to gear up for a busy second year of this incredible  professional development program [...]

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 [...]

EduWikipedia I have had several conversations as of late with folks about the dis-connect of all the connected learning taking place in Education 2.0. Randy Fullington, one of the Alabama Best Practice Fellows, commented how it was confusing tryng to navigate through all archived in the virtual learning community with all the resources we had [...]

We are moving. It is so humbling when you have to pack all your belongings in boxes, separate trash from treasure, and try to ignore the dirt that is revealed as you move furniture and empty your house. The toughest part of the move is not being connected. I called 1 week ahead– but the [...]