On Growing Mushrooms and Community

By Karen Richardson
As an early birthday gift, my husband gave me a mushroom growing kit.  It was pretty much a box of dirt with a bag of “starter,” which I think were spores in peat moss.  I spread the contents of the bag over the dirt, spritzed with water, and then covered it up with [...]

Coming Together

This is pulled from a blog post in the International cohort and posted here with permission.

Posted by Susan Carter Morgan on March 14, 2009 at 7:49pm

I remember Carey Pohanka’s face during the PLP face to face meeting back in September. Her expression said, “what have I gotten into??”
Though the day energized me, I sensed that [...]

PLP News from Down Under

By Mary Worrell
A lot of news has been coming out of Australia recently – not all of it good. Last month a brushfire ravaged the province of Victoria killing nearly 200 people.
For Powerful Learning Practice’s International Cohort, the pain of the event hit close to home with team members having family and students affected by [...]

Evolving Conversations.

By Dean Shareski
Having been involved in many emerging communities in the past 5 years I always smile when the conversations move from the WOW factor to the deep questions of teaching and learning. Education technology is full of “WOWs” and shiny objects. I like them both and no one should ever have to apologize [...]