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I just made a fabulous discovery! Earlier this year I discovered the power of linked accounts in G-mail for elementary students. Today I learned how I can leverage that shortcut into individual contributing authors for our Grade 3 BlogPals blog on Edublogs. Here’s what I found out: I would like: One class blog - not individual student blogs. The [...]

A little over a week ago I was honored to be invited to Qatar Academy, workplace of the amazing Julie Lindsay, as a consultant for a 2 day 21st century literacy training. While I’m there, not only do I get to spend some quality F2F time with Julie, but hopefully I will also spend some time [...]

I have been looking forward to this project all year! We just got started on Friday with a wonderful group of fourth graders, and their very flexible classroom teacher, Sonja. I’m so excited to be able to collaborate on this project a second time. I hope I’ve learned from my mistakes the last time around, [...]

I am constantly inspired by the supportive and encouraging environment out here in the education blogosphere. After reading Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (so nice I have to mention it twice), I am reminded of the power of the social learning going on in this environment. Anyone involved in the [...]

Vicki Davis and I are planning another Horizon Project. This one, Horizon Project 2008, will be based on the newly released Horizon Report (by Educause and the New Media Consortium) that identified 6 emerging technologies over the next 5 years. We are ...

After an excellent session with parents about cyberbullying and an equally excellent session with our staff discussing the Frontline documentary Growing Up Online, I’ve been thinking a lot about responsibility. As in: Whose responsibility is it to teach students about the dangers of social networking (not only physical danger from online predators, but the danger of [...]