I am an English teacher delving into the new media, and soon I’ll be morphing from teacher to librarian. Groovy teachers, librarians, and researchers have online spaces where their fellows can romp. Here’s my own fledgling space. Let’s play.

To your right are links to various sites, blogs, and wikis I currently find useful. Warning: once you enter this morass you may not come up for air. The research on new media and participatory culture is fascinating for teachers wondering what to make of all they are hearing about “21st century learners” and how to get their students on the right side of several digital divides. It’s a new world that’s reinvigorating my teaching – and giving me yet another reason to put off grading papers (I’m much too busy online). My Diigo lists have plenty of resources to get you started. Please share yours to any of my lists.

These tools have been in use, some for several years, by educators worldwide – and more emerge every day. But American public school teachers with 150 students (and 15 committees and endless meetings) have a hard time looking up long enough to even know they exist. Now that I am teaching overseas and have a semi-civilized workload I have taken the time to explore. I hope some of what is here will be interesting to my teacher friends.