I adore this post about being the obstacle or the answer from a participant in the workshop on Monday. These insights are excellent and this school MICDS has some of the most visionary, progressive teachers and administrators! It is refreshing to be here. Elizabeth Helfant, their IT director, is unbelievably sharp! Totally amazing woman with the energy of the Energizer bunny. Wow!

Here is a page that has an embedded science report that se used docstoc for. This is a great example. From Julie Lindsay's class.

Amazing wiki from a student.

Amazing wiki portfolio from one of Julie Lindsay's students. wow! Look at the science report that she used docstoc to upload.

A classmate in our workshop has created a group for researchers who want to research web 2 -- if you want to join a group, Craig has just retired from the Navy and has a LOT of energy!

Leigh Newton director of IT at a school in Baku, Azerbaijan wants to talk about linking his grade 5 classes of about 30 students to others in the world. There is also a PYP (Primary years program) on the flat classroom ning about this. Some interesting conversations are emerging. If you're interested, join and join the conversation.

A teacher who wants to talk about elementary level projects with a classroom with Ajerbaijan.

Join in the plurknovela. So cool. This is the original one.

Plurk novella - the first one.

Plurk novella - the first one.

Plurk novellas are emerging -- this is very cool. This could be used in writing. You can see how threaded microblogging is DIFFERENT from twitter. I think there is room for both.

Plurk novells are emerging. This is cool. You can see how threaded microblogging is DIFFERENT from twitter. I think there is room for both.

This is the video on the "flipped" class structure. Wow!

Video about the "flipped" class structure w/ podcasted lectures as the homework.

Some cool science teachers at necc who have "flipped the classroom" -- they record their lectures and make them available on itunes to download. Then, they do "homework" in class w/ the teachers. Listening to the podcast of class is their assignment -- the homework is what they do in class. This flipped method had some people talking today in our workshop. So so cool! This makes so much sense -- take the one to many work delivery and make it the assignment -- take the work where you need many to many to help one another and have that in the classroom. Can you see class evolving? wow! This makes so much sense.

Use of podcasting to "flip" the classroom experienc.e Lectures are assignments to listen to on the podcast -- homework is the classwork now so teachers can help the students one on one. How much sense does that make! Wow!

Discussion about benefits and challenges of flattening your classroom. Yes, this is another plurk page -- I'm finding that plurk and twitter are good for two entirely different types of conversations!

Profile of Mike Rose by eduwonkette.

I enjoyed reading Eduwonkette's profile of Mike Rose. A refreshing profile and viewpoint that we all should read.

REflections comparing plurk to twitter.

I asked the "plurkosphere" to reflect on twitter and plurk -- this is their response.

I think that Elaine's viewpoints on edubloggercon are excellent ones and I think it is worth reading her thoughts and hear her side as she was with Pearson and the film crew. I keep thinking that as long as I've been in the edublogosphere I've heard people say that "we don't have the right people in the room." We finally get a company listening and then people don't want them in the room. Of course, it could have been filmed a little better but it was their first edubloggercon -- we can all live and learn and grow together. The edublogosphere is growing and we're going to have to learn how to deal with that.

My friend Karyn Romeis in England has done a nice job of sharing two perspectives of the flat world. Verdict -- we have a long way to go!

Two views of the flat classroom.

Cool Web 2.0 projects book.

Some great Web 2.0 books from Terry Freedman from the UK, one of my favorite bloggers. Included is a new Web 2.0 projects book with 60 projects organized by grade level.

TV tutorial about plurk basics. I must say, I do like the plurk page.

Resources from the princeton Future of Education Conference including videos and audio.

Archived information for the Princeton future of education conference. Some wonderful presentations!

I love how this teacher is truly emerging into the blogosphere, after a comment from me, and pinging technorati with thoughts, this teacher's post has received noticed from the bloggers at the Wikinomics blog. This teacher is doing an excellent job with blogging and we're only seeing the beginning.

Web 2.0 smackdown notes from joyce valenza - she did a great transcription of notes from this session. I love the photo of the web 2 keychain!

A transcription of the web 2.0 smackdown from edubloggercon.

Where to get invite codes from pingfm

You can find the most recent "beta codes" from pingfm on their twitter statuses. This is how I got in.