David+Warlick

[|David Warlick]  He ran two businesses before graduating high school. Worked his way through college in manufacturing, then became a classroom teacher in a middle school. He worked for 34 years in education. After teaching in the classroom he moved on to district administrator, then to staff consultant with North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, finally becoming the operator of The Landmark Project. In his spare time he has written educational software as well as three books. He also consults and speaks at various workshops around the world.  He has a classroom blogging service Class Blogmeister for classroom blogging as well as several other websites for education. All of his websites are free for teachers. He has several topics that he speaks on and presentations that are available to read or watch. his sites are filled with his writings, opinions, and with others that he has asked to comment on that topic. Everywhere I went on his site there was one statement that continued to stand out: "Owning learning - when they work on their own" He discusses how to use several tools in the classroom:  [|Virtual Worlds], [|Personal Learning Networks] , [|Video Games] , [|Digital Content] , [|Internet Research] , [|Blogging] , [|Web 2.0] , [|Podcasting] , [|Wikis] , [|Information Ethics] and  [|RSS]. I spent so much time reading his blogs, listening to his podcasts (that unfortunately stopped in March 2009). I just kept clinking and traveling from one place to another to learn more. I really found his site crazy but his ideas wonderful. AA