J. Ignacio Bermejo Larrea

J. Ignacio Bermejo Larrea, Spain, Media Studies, General Culture, Psycholinguistics, Adult, Tertiary, Further, Secondary

I worked as a teacher at Escuela Oficial de Idiomas nº 1, Zaragoza for 36 years. My current interests include media literacy, vocabulary, fluency, cultural studies, cinema, music, art, history, libraries, second language acquisition and attrition, psycholinguistics and the world at large.

English, News and Culture
English, News and Culture is a blog for advanced learners of English who want to expand their vocabulary by reading and listening extensively from the media. Eventually, this will help them to build up their general culture, which is essential to hold more animated conversations and to improve fluency (if they can find a speaking partner). 

The blog also includes comprehensive lists of media outlets around the world, interesting ELT blogs, songs and some lesson plans to use in the classroom.

Theme: english, news, culture, esl, efl, elt, tesol, vocabulary, listening, reading, media, digital literacy, media literacy, digital media, current events, adult education, continuing education, higher education, tertiary education, university education, distance learning, lesson plans

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Florencia Morgillo

Florencia Morgillo, Argentina, Secondary, Tertiary, English Language

Academic English Language Teacher. ELT Consultant. Specialties: Applied Linguistics and Materials design. ELT Digital Resources and Education.

Florencia Morgillo-English Language Teaching Tips and Ideas
Teaching tips and ideas. Digital resources from and for the English Language Teaching World.

Florencia Morgillo-ELT Class Education
English Language Teaching Tips and Ideas.Digital resources for the ELT World.

English Class
English Language Learning & Digital desources for 21st century learners.

Theme: professional development, TESOL, education, 21st century skills, digital literacy, digital resources, critical thinking, intercultural english, creativity in the Classroom, applied linguistics

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Simon McKenzie

Simon McKenzie, Australia, Secondary, Adult, History/Learning Technologies

Aged 53 and a 30 year veteran of the classroom. Teacher of Ancient History and English. Now a devotee of iPad and Web 2.0 in the classroom. Newly appointed as Learning Technologies Coordinator at Aquinas College, Gold Coast, Australia. Now operating three blogs.

Kenz's History Blog - currently offline
"Kenz's History Blog" is a site regularly used by my students past and present.

Also on Twitter: Simon McKenzie
YouTube channel to come!

Theme: classroom blogs, 21st century learning, connected learning, digital literacy, education technology, high school, professional development, social media, technology enhanced learning, twitter, web 2.0, youtube

Aditi Rao

Aditi Rao, USA, Educational Technology

Aditi Rao earned her B.A. in English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she simultaneously received her certification to teach English Language Arts to grades 8-12. The culmination of her undergraduate career resulted in a faculty directed study on the implications of developing the skill of empathy in educational settings, centered on research she conducted in Ahmedabad, India.

Prior to arriving in Baltimore, Aditi interned at Breakthrough Collaborative, where she developed a college education program while working with colleagues to bridge the gap for inner-city Houston youth. Aditi currently teaches PSAT, SAT and ACT preparation courses through Kaplan, Inc. and is pursuing a MSEd at Johns Hopkins University through the Technology for Educators program.

TeachBytes
Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Integrating Technology in the Classroom.

Theme: Educational Technology, emerging technologies, digital literacy, web 2.0, instructional technology, free resources, resources

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Nicola McNee

Nicola McNee, UK, Secondary

I am a school librarian working in Bath, UK. My interests are in digital literacy, e-safety and encouraging young people to develop a personal learning network through social media.

Nicola's Learning Log
Reflections on teaching and learning and the new social media tools.

Linked to teaching blogs - OK Revision and OK Online

Theme: school libraries, libraries, digital literacy, esafety, personal learning networks, web2.0, reading, storytelling, books, ebooks, independent learning, information skills, information literacy

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Clive Roberts

Clive Roberts, Thailand, Primary, Secondary, K-12, ICT, Technology Integration

I am an experienced International ICT Educator exploring more effective technology integration within and across the curriculum. The way young people learn has changed – the way we educate is changing too.

Digital Learning World
Exploring technology integration and digital literacy for 21st century learning.

Theme: technology integration, digital literacy, 21st century learning

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Lesley University Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative

Lesley University Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative, USA, Primary, Secondary, Literacy

We are a grades PreK-8 professional development center located at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. Our Center Director is Dr. Irene Fountas.

Lesley University Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative
Our blog will focus on a variety of topics related to reading and writing in grades Pre-K-8.

Theme: reading, writing, Reading Recovery, readers workshop, writers workshop, guided reading, Literacy Collaborative, nonfiction books, digital literacy, elementary education, middle school education, english language arts, irene fountas

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Abhay Adhikari

Abhay Adhikari, UK, Primary, Secondary, Further, Higher

I am based in York, UK and have been working with the education sector for the past two years. There are two distinct strands to my work - digital literacy training and behaviour management.

Both of these are practical applications of a transdisciplinary research I carried out at the University of York. I deliver workshops to primary and secondary schools. I have also worked in Japan in this context.

Action and Inspiration
I use this blog as a space for reflection on the numerous activities, workshops and training sessions that I carry out.

Theme: reflective practice, enterprise development, primary school, secondary school, ICT, digital literacy, behaviour management

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Nancy Carroll

Nancy Carroll, USA, Primary, Education

Mother, Wife, Daughter, Sister, Friend, Teacher! I am in my twentieth year of teaching, and believe it or not I'm still very passionate about my students, my job and about technology. Recently I received a Master's degree in Assistive Technology.

It is my hope to incorporate what I learned in the program and transfer that to my classroom in an effort to help my students learn!

Teaching is Elementary
A reflection tool, a sharing tool of ideas related to elementary education and a focus on incorporating technology into the classroom.

Theme: elementary, education, technology, learning, digital literacy, educational resources

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Ana Cristina Pratas

Ana Cristina Pratas, UAE, Tertiary, English Language Teaching

EAP/ESP lecturer; have taught in academic and commercial environments; experience of teaching in Europe, the UK, the Middle East and Japan.

CristinaSkyBox
Web 2.0 tools for teaching; digital tools and ideas which may inspire students and teachers.

Theme: Web 2.0 tools, learning sites online, digital literacies

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Julie Greller

Julie Greller, USA, Primary, Secondary

I've been an educational media specialist since 1987, and currently work in a junior-senior high school in New Jersey. I love photography and reading.

A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet
Started in 2007, A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet shares technology resources for K-12 teachers. The blog links to the companion web site, which contains thousands of links for the classroom teacher.

Theme: free technology resources, K-12 teacher resources, technology integration, educational technology, information literacy, digital literacy, instructional technology integration, free resources for teachers

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Kathy Hibbert

Kathy Hibbert, Canada, Primary, Secondary, Adult, Language Arts, Mathematics, The Arts, Sciences, Technology, Social sciences, Cultural and Language Traditions, Health and Physical Education

My research interests revolve around a focus on the 'scholarship of teaching and learning' (Boyer, 1990), the pedagogy of multiliteracies (The New London Group, 2000) communities of professional practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991), and the pedagogical potential of virtual learning environments.

In particular, my interests lie in looking at the policies, decisions and practices surrounding learning environments that stimulate and engage teachers' intellectual curiosity in ways that inform pedagogical decisions that ultimately create rich learning environments for both teachers and students. I am keenly interested in what we, as teachers, can learn together with our students.

The Salty Chip: A Canadian Multiliteracies Collaborative
This 'Multiliteracies' Collaborative has been developed in response to working with teachers and students as co-researchers over a number of years, at a time when our understanding of literacy has broadened to include 'texts' that go beyond the dominant print literacy to viewing literacies as plural, complex social and cultural practices.

In this multiliteracies collaborative, we are interested in collectively sharing and better understanding how teachers and students create meaning in the context of using multiliteracies' activities in pursuit of learning. In many ways it is a learning ecosystem; its growth is dependent upon the community that engage with its pages. I look forward to what we can build together.

To check out the Salty Chip and add your contributions, go to Salty Chip

Theme: multiliteracies, primary, secondary, education, all subjects, digital literacy, multimodal literacy, new literacies, language arts, mathematics, the arts, sciences, technology, social sciences, cultural and language traditions, health and physical education

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Patrick Larkin

Patrick Larkin, USA, Secondary, School Administration

High School Principal in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Burlington High Principal's Blog
Provides the latest in news and updates on the happenings at Burlington High School(MA) along with information on various topics related to education.

Theme: 21st century schooling, education, digital literacy, high school

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Martin Jorgensen

Martin Jorgensen, Australia, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Beyond, English and ICT

Fascinated by Digital Narrative, Web 2.0 observer, young adult literacy advocate, PD consultant, usability and web development, educator.

The Digital Narrative
Amazing new media narratives, news about teaching digital story writing and much more.

Theme: Digital Narrative, story, English, storytelling, digital literacy, creativity, education, elearning

Richard Gresswell

Richard Gresswell, UK, Further, Higher, English as a Second Language

I teach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for a college in the UK. I taught in Bulgaria for many years and briefly in Italy, since then in the UK. I am also doing a PhD at the University of Leeds and my interests are in digital literacies and language learning.

web2literacy - currently offline
The aim of web2literacy is to inspire and help ESOL teachers to use Web 2.0 media in their classroom work by providing plenty of creative ideas and by showcasing some of the great work out there.

The focus is not on the technology itself, although links will be provided to online resources to help you, but rather on HOW we can take advantage of the ‘new’ media in enabling ESOL learners to participate and engage with learning while still meeting curriculum and assessment objectives.

Theme: web 2.0, education, learning, languages, technology, literacy, ethnography, computers, digital literacies, digital literacy, emerging technologies, esol, efl, esl, teaching english, elearning, pedagogy

Melanie McBride

Melanie McBride, Canada, Secondary, College, Web2.0, Online Publishing, Online Writing, Social Media

Early adopter, long time web content producer for education, media, museums. College instructor and speaker on social and participatory media. Currently transitioning to secondary school teaching with a focus on social justice and urban education.

Teacher ed training from OISE (focus on social justice, urban ed, critical pedagogy). My core secondary teachables are English/Media and Politics/Civics. I hope to add Web technology to this when it becomes a core subject in our high schools. In the meantime, let's advocate to make it so :)

Melanie Mcbride online
A variety of content pertaining to both interactive media production (online writing and publishing), emerging technology and web2.0 approaches to teaching and learning.

A few of my posts have gone into wide circulation and bookmarked heavily by educators. This one is the most popular: Classroom2.0: Twitter, del.icio.us and participatory learning.
My Diigo Bookmarks.

Theme: education, educational technology, critical pedagogy, web2.0, participatory media, digital democracy, publishing, online writing, writing, social media, digital literacies, digital storytelling

Jen Farr

Jen Farr, USA, K-12 Students & Educators, Educational Technology

Jen is a certified New York State administrator who has 17 years experience working directly with teachers, students, and technology. She has been a keynote speaker and has presented workshops at the local, regional, and national level.

Prior to writing her daily blog she published an inquiry based monthly online resource site that was used by educators in 150+ school districts across New York State.

Farr-Out Links to Learning - currently offline
Jen writes a daily edtech blog as part of her professional mission to research and share resources that will inspire educators to become lifetime learners so that they in turn can teach students to be competent in subject matter, digitally literate, effective collaborators, creative thinkers, and innovative problem solver.

Jen has also researched and developed 150+ websites and 40+ workshops. Feel free to contact her to find out more about the learning opportunities she offers teachers and educators who are interested in using technology to help students develop 21st Century skills that support curriculum expectations and life skills.

Theme: edtech, education, Web2.0, cross-curricular, technology, K-12, integration, technology education, digital literacy, digital technology, differentiated, eteaching, 21st Century Literacy, instructional technology

Leo Casey

Leo Casey, Ireland, Primary, Further, Adult, eLearning, Learning Instruction Teaching

Leo’s experience spans the three domains of learning, media and industry. Leo was founder and CEO of AV Edge a learning media production company that specialised in educational television and multimedia. He has produced and directed numerous broadcast educational television programmes including five series on adult literacy.

AV Edge was acquired by ThirdForce Ireland’s largest e-learning company. Leo subsequently worked as a senior manager for ThirdForce overseeing the development of a new basic skills division. Leo joined National College of Ireland in January 2007 as Director of Teaching and Learning.

Leo's Learning Blog
Thoughts on learning, life and experience.

Theme: learning, digital literacy, teaching, learning theories, learning research, elearning, instruction, education, edtech, research

Geoff Cain

Geoff Cain, USA, Post Secondary, College, Education

I am an instructional designer and occasional community college English teacher and I am now the director of instructional design at College of the Redwoods.

I have taught developmental English, composition and literature. I also have taught health information management focusing on information management in the web 2.0 world. I have presented on the connected classroom, concept maps, podcasting, new media, social networking, and other related topics.

Brainstorm in Progress
Geoff Cain's blog for exploring pedagogy, instructional design, technology, online learning, web 2.0, and MUVEs.

At the heart of my teaching philosophy is my absolute belief in my student’s ability to learn. It is my goal as an instructor to create an environment and classroom community that facilitates those abilities.

Different students from different backgrounds, cultures, and abilities all have their have a contribution to make to this learning community. Both as a teacher and an instructional designer, it is important to create learning experiences that enables everyone’s ability to participate.

Theme: education, elearning, connectivism, constructivism, cognitivism, semantic web, second life, elearning, online learning, new media, social networking, web2.0, distance learning, OER, opensource, digital literacy, instructional design, concept mapping, concept maps, mindmaping, mindmaps, collaboration, cognitive science, GTD, writing, meditation, buddhism, psychology, cognitive science, web3.0, virtual worlds, MUVES, collaborative learning, pedagogy, secondlife

Patrick Woessner

Patrick Woessner, USA, K-12, Instructional/Educational Technology

I'm an educator with nearly 20 years of experience in public and private K-12 schools. I began my career as a science teacher and have taught in New Zealand, Texas, and Missouri.

For the past seven years I've been an instructional technology coordinator and helped plan and implement our 1:1 Tablet PC program. My passion (and primary job responsibility) is to help students and teachers effectively utilize technology in the service of teaching and learning.

Technology in the Middle - currently offline
Technology in the Middle has three primary goals: highlight the work of teachers as they infuse technology throughout the curriculum, provide resources for teaching and learning in the 21st century, and encourage all who read it to actively participate in conversations about the education profession.

Theme: instruction, ed tech, digital literacy, education, computer science