We all know that collaboration and communication are 21st century skills. We all want to incorporate these skills. What pushes us? What holds us back? What works? What seems to stall?
At the beginning of this year (January 2008), I wrote a blog post titled Collaboration Projects- Doomed to fail? that drew many comments.  I was [...]

Last year at this time, we had created a Wordpress blog for each of our classroom teachers. They were to use it as a communication tool for their students and their parents.
We finally had moved away from a static website, designed in Dreamweaver and uploaded by the webmaster (me) via FTP. Teachers used to to [...]

If you use Google Reader as your RSS Aggregator, you might or might not be familiar with the “Starred Items” “Shared Items” feature.
Although I neglect these two features sometimes, when it is hard enough to get though all my my feeds anyway, they have grown on me and I am using them more and more.

The [...]

A picture is worth a thousand words… A thousand words can tell a story…
Using words as a visual give a different impression than text alone. Visuals can allow us to “see” a concept or, a relationship that text alone might not make apparent. It can tell a visual story of words, keywords, thoughts, text, and [...]

Muchísimas gracias a la dirección de la Goethe Schule en Buenos Aires, Argentina por darme la oportunidad de hablar con ellos acerca de la integración de tecnología y la alfabetización en el siglo XXI.
Gracias a Verónica D. y Heidi M. por organizar ese encuentro. Ich freue mich schon auf gemeinsame Projekte!

¿Qué es un Instructional Technologist?

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As many of you know, who follow me on Langwitches, I am working on a Digital Storytelling Guide for Educators.
I will be using Wordle to create a storytelling cloud with words that come to mind when you think what Digital Storytelling means to or for you.
Please contribute keywords, that come to YOUR mind when you [...]

Need a laugh? Check out this Skype Laugher Chain and if inclined, add you laughter to the chain.

Laughter is a universal language
It’s no accident that LOL (Laugh Out Loud) is one of the most popular acronyms on the web – we all love to communicate, to share and feel part of a community. Laughter brings [...]

I have decided to introduce Scatch in my upcoming TechCamp.
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As [...]

I am getting ready to teach a one week-three hour summer technology camp next week at my elementary school.
My objective for this camp is to allow the campers (incoming 4th-6th Graders) to have time to PLAY, time to EXPLORE, time to MAKE MISTAKES and time to FIGURE IT OUT, either by themselves or with each [...]

Yesterday, during our last technology professional development workshop of the year, I introduced a group of our elementary school faculty to the concept of a custom Google Search Engine. Everyone present was invited to be a collaborator and created (if they did not have one) or signed into their google account. I created a step-by-step [...]