Streaming Thoughts

When I read this local district’s vision I immediately thought of School 2.0. First, this vision was created for and by the entire school community. That is the entire community, faculty, students, parents, administration, local organinzations like the Chamber of Commerce, local experts from local universities and businesses totalling over 500 people.
This community [...]

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3 Reasons Meme
Time for a new blog meme to help us spread the word about the upcoming K12Online07 conference. Please share either three (3) reasons to participate based on your experience from last year or (if you didn’t attend last year) three (3) things you hope to gain from the experience this year.

If you are [...]

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So some of you may know that my wife is an educator in an elementary school.  She’s taught 4th grade for years, as well as some 3rd grade, but this year she’s in a totally different role.  She doesn’t have a class.  She has all of them (including the teachers).  She has designed, with the [...]

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I witnessed something today, something that I feel we should all see, everyday.  After catching a tweet from my Twitter network I learned that Google released Google Presentations today.  But that wasn’t what I witnessed.  I saw a complete devouring of a web application.  It was almost stripped down to the network cables.
Listening to WOW2 [...]

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I had the pleasure of being informally interviewed by Sue Waters from Perth, Australia. Sue had reached out to her network of online colleagues (via Twitter, Google Talk, and Gmail) to solicit input on how to get other educators to experience the benefits of e-learning. The interview was a conversation and she did [...]

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Off and on over the past few months I’ve been thinking of Web 2.0, technology and how we can be more globally connected. In doing so, I thought that each student should have a global experience at least once in their K-12 education. Further thought led me to think how ridiculuous that last [...]

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I’ve received about a dozen comments on the Intelligent Classroom post last month and several emails. Many of you questioned whether we should be discussing the technology at all while others mentioned that sometimes it is about the technology. There was also some mention of technology that we should be rid of… like [...]

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