Skyping with Alan November

Coming into class on February 23, I was a little apprehensive knowing that we were going to be staring eye to eye (digitally!) with the author of our textbook. Even though we had a assigned roles for opening and closing the conversation, pre-prepared questions, and sufficient notice that we were going to be in the 'hot seat,' the Skype conversation at hand was still daunting.

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November's dedication to keeping technology at the root of education was evident with every point he made. His tone was almost indignant at the thought that we might question when children are at an appropriate age to begin using social networking in the classroom: He responded: "when do you give children a pencil for the first time?"

Alan's website  is a great hub of information for educators to explore articles, podcasts, or upcoming conference information. His information base is huge and highly revered by education community.