I only have a couple of hours before leaving for the airport, and there is so much that I want to say. But I guess, at this moment, I should say something about the new image in the far right sidebar. Yes, this is the “big” project I’ve been working on, a 2nd edition of Classroom Blogging. The first edition was written during the first weeks and months that I was getting to know the whole emerging Web 2.0 landscape. I was very happy with the result, and was also pleased that it was probably the first book published about blogs, wikis, and podcasts for the education community. But realizing, over the next few months, that this landscape was continuing to shift and change under the continued seismic influence of unimpeded creativity, I soon began to watch my book become increasingly out of date.
This new edition reflects two years of continued development of new web applications, my own increasing exploration and understanding about these tools and what they mean to teaching and learning, and especially to what I have learned by engaging in the great conversation with people who see what I see, but who think differently. Together, we have grown our ideas about what all this means to schooling, and it has been thrilling.
I knew that I would be happy about putting this book on the market when Brenda, my wife, who is not an educator, but who considers criticism a virtue, said, “This is a very good book. It respects teachers.“
Classroom Blogging: 2nd Edition (ISBN: 978-1-4303-2676-2) is currently available through Lulu. It typically takes a few weeks for a Lulu book to become available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I will provide links when CB shows up there.
Congrats Dave!!! Look forward to hunting down a copy soon!!
Congratulations Dave! I’m going to give a presentation to our leadership team (all the directors of our school) about what I learned at NECC07 this year. I learned more from your adv. blogging workshop than any I attended. I will be sharing with them who you are and will now recommend your book! Can’t wait to get a copy!
Congrats Dave! I loved the first book and look forward to the edition. Thanks for all your hard working helping teachers best use these tools.
Am waiting for the GOOGLE edition 🙂
Just as the tools get good….there are more tools… and now that google reader is offline
Congratulations Dave!! I look forward to adding it to my collection of professional resources.
Ordered the book last night! I am interested in seeing the changes in the second ed.
Thanks for all you do!
David, I received my copy of your book yesterday and have been savaging it for information.
Please let me know if I overstepped by borrowing your image of the book and posting about it on my blog. I’m a little new to this and don’t want to trespass on copyright, but I wanted to promote your book all the same.
David,
Great to see the 2nd Edition. Congratulations and thanks for all the inspirational work that you do! Can’t wait for the eBook version of the 2nd edition! I love to read everything digital so fire up Lulu again 🙂
If I don’t see you before hand, I hope to catch up with you at MECT 2007 next Feb.
Scott