Virtual Friendships

This year I’ve been fortunate to meet many of my edublogger friends in person. It started with Learning 2.0 where I got to meet Jeff Utecht, Clay Burell, Wes Fryer, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson (and I also was fortunate to spend lots of time with Susan Sedro, who I had met the year before…

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Commmitting to Conversations

I have to admit, I’m not very good at commenting. I love to read, I love to share, but I so rarely take the time to actually leave a comment on the posts I find interesting. It’s a very bad habit – especially because I know how much I enjoy receiving and reading comments left…

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Learning 2.008 Presentation Ideas

Woo hoo! I’ve been asked to present 3 sessions at the Learning 2.008 conference in Shanghai in September! I was already excited enough just to attend the conference, but to get to present three sessions will be fantastic! Here are the topic ideas I’m thinking about so far (and I’d love to hear your feedback):…

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Reflections on Fourth Grade Collaborations

Over the past few months, I’ve worked on two major projects with several of our fourth grade classes: Books Go Global! and the 1001 Flat World Tales project. I absolutely loved working with fourth grade and it was especially interesting to do the 1001 Tales project for the second time with such a different age…

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The Snowball Effect

As much as I love getting to work with students and teachers on exciting projects every day, I think my favorite part about my job is something I like to call the “snowball effect” (I just made that up right now). I’m talking about the moment when you (as the facilitator) realize that the teacher(s)…

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