It seems that "Google Days" and "Google time" are the new catchphrases on administrators' lips in my district. Last year, Burlington, MA, high school principal, Patrick Larkin (Twitter: bhsprincipal), christened one of his building's professional development days as a "Google Day," giving faculty the opportunity to select a project or area of…

I tell myself that I’ll whip up a blog after every #edchat, but, alas, leave every session with my head spinning too wildly with ideas to think about or implement, that I can barely center myself enough to jot down the resources I want to check out. This week, I couldn’t keep myself from mulling over one possible #edchat topic in particular.

Should teachers have students write blogs, develop class websites/wikis, student PLN's?

When I first saw this posted as an option…