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Find information and slides for this presentation at our wiki - http://thewallscamedown.wikispaces.com/ My biggest takeway:  the way we communicate and connect has fundamentally changed.  Those who tap into the network experience great benefits.  Thank you to my copresenters : Vicki Davis, moderator Darren Draper Kelly Dumont Kristin Hokanson Robin Ellis Beth Ritter-Guth Carolyn Foote . Ustreamer: Stephanie Sandifer

I love the blog post from Laurie Fowler about the Wiki workshop last week at NECC. Laurie says: "This workshop really opened my eyes to the collaboration that the web 2.0 tools can encourage. And it reminded me, too, that it is about the content and the collaboration, NOT about the tools. The relationships we encourage students to make with one another and students around the globe are much more important than which tools they choose to communicate that message" We had fourteen in the workshop in person and about 7 participants from around the world.  Our goal was for the participants to experience a flat classroom and, it worked! Julie and I will be offering an extended version of this course this upcoming week in St. Louis and are talking about doing another extended workshop next year in Australia if we can find a venue and enough participants to make it happen. We will have a very small number of openings this upcoming Tuesday and perhaps Wednesday.  First twe...

After inhaling NECC 2008, I'm going to spend the next few days giving you as much pd as I can find for you to share.  I'm going to save my own reflections of NECC for later.  I've found much of the NECC jousting between bloggers to be so far off focus that it is quite bothersome. It is about the students and improving teaching.  So, that means I need to get past the edublogosphere introspection and share some things with you that you can USE! This is an older video from the Princeton conference back in May, but it has been released on youtube and I'd like to share it with you. I'll see if I can find the others to share with you.  I must say that all of the other speakers on this panel had me totally enthralled. I LOVED the way that the oceans of know teaches fractions and I also am planning to integrate virtual worlds into my curriculum next year.  This was a great conference! Presenters: INNOVATIVE USES OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM Moderator...

Tomorrow on this blog, you'll get a lot of links. Also, I have a post coming from Google docs with my notes. Although it is 12:10 on the east coast and I'm dead tired, I just have to reflect on my thoughts about Google Teacher Academy today. It was a wonderful experience. To be here at such an icon of our time... the company who showed what it was like to become so wildly popular as to literally become a verb, I felt like a part of history. I am proof that a teacher who was formerly behind and didn't know a thing about anything Web 2.0 can jump into these tools and combine a commitment to excellence with a desire to learn more and share the process of learning -- can make a difference. And I'm not the only one. There are many of us teachers who are reaching and connecting like never before. I dream of a day when many teachers present at 5-6 conferences a year about best practices in the classroom. I dream of a day when pd is embedded as part of our day and that read...

While in the midst of a huge undertaking at our church this week, every afternoon and evening is spent working on presentations for the next two weeks. It will be a very exciting few weeks with many things planned. I'll keep "official" events on my public calendar on Airset and in the list below. I'm so excited about Google Teacher Academy next week and about Edubloggercon . Also, over the past few weeks, I've booked my school year and now am totally done with that. (Can only do 7-8 days out of school per year.) But really, the most exciting thing about conferences is getting to meet other teachers and see what THEY are doing. It would be easy to get caught up in my own things and what I've done, but I know, it is not enough. I'm not going to teach myself anything new! There are only two things that truly change our lives: reading new books and meeting new people. That is it. There is another thing to remember: When you're green, you're gr...