Doug Belshaw said it so well, I am just going to repost what he said and add my full fledged support!
You will remember that a worldwide
groupnetwork of teachers, including myself, got together at the start of this year to communicate, collaborate and work together to explore the next generation of teaching and learning. This network, brought together by Chris Craft is called NextGen Teachers. The next stage has started – we’ve got a social network, and we want you to join in! Read on…The problem that any group or network of teachers face is time. As full-time teachers or educational professionals this is one luxury we do not have. Consequently, our communications and collaborations have been somewhat sporadic. What has kept going throughout, however, and has served as a touchstone for our nascent collection of renegade educators is NextGenTeachers.com. This site pulls in posts made on a variety of member blogs to create a ‘river of news’. Anything we post on our blogs with the tag nextgenteachers shows up over there. If you haven’t subscribed to that RSS feed, I’d do so now!
Now, using the excellent ning.com, we’ve got a social network which we’d like YOU to join. Almost 500 people subscribe to this blog, and I want every single one of you to go over there, sign up and get involved!
We’d like to see useful YouTube videos uploaded, pictures of conferences, your classroom and diagrams from Flickr added, discussions on possible projects and collaborations in the forum section, and so on. So, get involved and connect with like-minded people around the world!
Here’s to the resurgence of NextGenTeachers! Thanks, Doug!
No problem, Chris. Hopefully this resurgence will lead to great things!