April 2, 2008

Planning to Build

Filed under: edtech,learning,TeachersFirst,teaching — Candace Hackett Shively @ 4:27 pm

We’ve been pretty busy planning a new project at TeachersFirst called Building Learners. We’re working together with a new web2.0 tool developer to offer an amazing project. The announcement is scheduled for about ten days from now, and I am actually pretty excited. It’s free, it’s creative, and it’s open-ended. I would love nothing more than to have it grow beyond what we have imagined (or are capable of “managing.”) It really is intended as a launch more like a solar-powered passenger balloon: theoretically self-sustaining and destined to go where the wind takes it and the passengers steer it. We’ll stay on the ground, ready to radio up help and tracking via every means possible. But the kids and the teachers will be driving this puppy. In a very real sense, they ARE the pilot(s). Can’t wait!

5 Comments

  1. I’m excited to learn more about this.

    Comment by Sharon Hain — April 6, 2008 @ 9:21 am

  2. I would like more information about how my school can particpate in the pilot program, Building Leaners.

    Thank you
    Linda Bernabeu
    Technology Coordinator
    Red Bank Charter School

    Comment by Linda Bernabeu — April 6, 2008 @ 11:44 am

  3. The project will be officially announced in a few days via the TeachersFirst web site and weekly Update email (and this blog, of course!). We welcome your interest! Check TeachersFirst any time after Sunday, April 13. In the meantime, make sure you have established a free membership in TeachersFirst, since we are offering this pilot opportunity to our members.

    Comment by Candace Hackett Shively — April 7, 2008 @ 5:20 pm

  4. I am looking forward to learning more. Thank you.

    Comment by Russ Knopp — April 13, 2008 @ 8:35 am

  5. Can’t wait to hear more.

    Comment by Terry Yordan — April 13, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

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