WARNING! This website is no longer actively maintained. It is an archive of 2 years work by Doug Belshaw who now blogs at dougbelshaw.com...
My apologies as, once again, I merely choose what I consider to be the best posts I’ve read this week and present them with the briefest of comments. Normal service, in terms of proper Weekly Roundups, should resume within the not-too-distant future! 
- Chris Sessums - The Future Begins Now: School 2.0 Manifesto (puts forward some great theses for School 2.0 - well worth reflecting upon!)
- Clarence Fisher - Courses Need To Die (discusses how courses should be broken up, shared, ready to be remixed - I like it! - via Teachers Teaching Teachers)
- Doug Noon - In Names We Trust (a post about the importance of semantics and why we should be teaching it in schools - some great links, too!)
- Eric Hoefler - Levels of Safety (gives three levels of safety he classifies as ‘low’, ‘medium’ and ‘high’ - according to it, my class blogs are in the ‘low safety’ band. But that’s where real learning occurs, right? On the edge…)
- Eric Hoefler - Slowly Moving Mobile (a great post by Eric in which he shows how he keeps in touch with students via web services that contact students via mobile, RSS and/or email)
- Harold Jarche - The means of production (an interesting post about informal learning that caught my attention due to a great diagram - reproduced below!)
- Miguel Guhlin - Command and Control (this post looks at how schools need to be more ‘open’ systems and includes a great diagram)
- Randy Rodgers - Social Networks too Scary for School? (echoes what I’ve been thinking about r.e. my Ed.D. thesis that 21st century literacies are different from 20th century ones - includes the great quotation, “Fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light.â€Â?)
- Will Richardson - Moving Schools Forward - a School 2.0 Project (introduces a new project that aims to answer the question, “How do you take a fairly “typicalâ€Â? school that is currently steeped in a 20th Century model of teaching and successfully move it forward in a systemic way toward a more relevant 21st Century, or, if you will, School 2.0 model that fully takes advantage of a more connected, collaborative, creative world?”)
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Thanks for providing a terrific list of blog posts to read. You have sent me in some good directions for reading, which helps my own blogging a lot.
No problem, Dave - glad to be of assistance! Nice blog by the way. Are you really principal of a school in South Park?!
Well, yes I am the principal of South Park Elementary School, but we are located in Deerfield, Illinois, and not in a town called South Park. It is a hard name to live with, but we are nothing like the school in the cartoon (thank goodness). And by the way, I did not kill Kenny!
Dave