Educon, Here We Come!

photo © 2008 Ben Smith | more info (via: Wylio)Do we even have to explain Educon? If you haven’t heard of this conference, which is really a bunch of great conversations, then you will soon– if you follow any of us on Twitter. We’ll be tweeting away...

Pecha Kucha, PLP Style

Pecha Kucha is a new global presentation phenomenon, which originated in Japan sometime during 2003. It’s a new and wonderfully creative and unconventional way to do Power Point presentations. The rules are very simple: You must use 20 slides, each shown for 20...

A Year 4 Anniversary to Remember

Four years ago, January 24, 2007, was the first day we Skyped into our classroom a classmate that couldn’t attend school because she had leukemia and the side effects from the chemo therapy she was receiving made it impossible for her to attend school. Through...