A Shifting Notion of What it Means to Teach
Will Richardson is an internationally known "evangelist" for the use of Weblogs, RSS and related Internet technologies in classrooms and schools.
He is the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for the Classroom (Corwin Press, 2006), and over the past three years has spoken to thousands of educators on the merits of "The Read/Write Web."
A classroom teacher for over 20 years, he integrated these technologies into his curricula and his school over the past four years. In various Weblog projects, his students have collaborated with best-selling authors, Pulitzer Prize winning journalists, and with students in classrooms from around the world.
One of the first educator bloggers, his own Weblog at http://www.weblogg-ed.com/ has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Syllabus and others, and it is a primary resource for the creation and implementation of Weblog technologies on the K-12 level.
His articles have appeared in Educational Leadership, English Journal and Principal Leadership, among others, and he has presented and given workshops about Weblogs and RSS and other technologies at national conventions such as the NECC, ASCD, Journalism Education Association and many others.
He is also a featured blogger at Ed Tech Insider (http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti) and is a regular on the bi-weekly "Ed Tech Coast to Coast Podcast" (http://www.edtechcoasttocoast.com/).
I follow Will Richardsons blog weblogg-ed so it was great to hear him speak. Actually, I had heard his speech before when I participated in a Webinar from Discovery Educators. It was still great to hear him speak. His ideas were part of my inspiration for our grant proposal. He talked about learning with wings. With the ReadWrite Web, students are able to participate and contribute to the knowledge base. They are the information age.
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