Be sure to attend the 2007 K12 Online Conference! The link to the website is http://k12onlineconference.org This conference takes place online over the next two weeks with a variety of topics to be addressed. David Warlick just posted his pre-confernce keynote address and as always he raises some interesting topics.

A new video from “TeacherTube” (posted on the videos to view page) about Web 2.0 and preparing students for the future.

Another great video from the folks at Commoncraft! “Social networking in plain English” Check in out on the “Videos to View” page.

A new video added to the “videos to view” page. The title: “3 steps to 21st century learning”

Go to the videos to view page and view an official update to the original “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update includes new and updated statistics, thought-provoking questions and a fresh design. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com — Content by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, design and development by XPLANE.

I added two new videos to the “videos to view” page. One explains how a wiki works (Wikis in Plain English) and the other talks about RSS feeds (RSS in Plain English).

Thank you for your patience! I have been very busy since our brief time together and apologize for not sending the video links sooner. I was in the process of trying some new things on this blog and ran into some minor technical difficulties.

The videos I tried to share with you on April 14th are located on the page “Videos to View”. There are two other videos you should take a look at also. You may or may not have trouble viewing the videos here at school because they involve a flash player and are located at “youtube.com”

This blog will become my main professional blog. I will make this a place to share knowledge and expertise and would like to engage in conversion with all who wish to better utilize technology in a classroom. I have decided to wait on setting up my student blogs until next year as there are too many activities going on as this school year comes to an end.

Please take a look around and I welcome your comments.

Today after teaching my normal load of classes, I went down to the Lower School division(grades PK-5) of the PK -12 school where I teach. I gave short presentation on Web2.0 and shared with them a TeacherTube video titled “Pay Attention” by Darren Draper. Next I showed a slide-show entitled “Its Elementary-web2.0-in-the-elementary-classroom” by D. Kuropatwa. After that presentation got them excited, I took the group to various grade level blogs so they could what some teachers are doing with classroom blogs. The hour was soon up but before they left overwhelmed I stressed the importance of just picking one new piece of technology to try in the classroom and not over do it at first. One teacher stayed to learn how to Google on her cellphone and another stayed to set up her personal blog right on the spot!

See the link under Blogroll (bottom right) to a power point presentation done by two professors of education called “Did You Know?”