Every Fall I try to pick one or two new tools to pilot with teachers and students. Last year was the Year of Sketchup and Voicethread, which we successfully used with students in a number of grade levels. The year before that we experimented with Edublogs and Garageband for the very first time, and both [...]

I love attending conferences with colleagues. Truth be told, the content and location of the conference are so much less important than the time spent together off campus, with time to free-associate, dream and collaborate together. But as it happens, BLC08 is turning out to be simply fabulous. We’re trying something new — a [...]

I leave SF early tomorrow morning to attend the Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, MA. Five of my MCDS colleagues and I will be attending together. I absolutely can’t wait. Haven’t heard of this conference? Visit http://www.novemberlearning.com or watch this video: