Endless Possibilities

Speaking of ambitious teaching and learning, I was really impressed by Kerrie Guston, an elementary school teacher from Magnolia, Texas.

During the Classroom 2.0 Birds of a Feather session, she described her “Share Your Community” project at Gustinspace. Elementary students from Magnolia, Texas, and Perth, Australia share their community through a wiki moderated and maintained by Kerrie.

One of the key features of long tail learning is working outside the constraints of time and place. Kerrie’s project really exemplifies this because she is creating a “community” and a “classroom” (as in a place for learning) beyond the geography of the neighborhood and the hours of the school day. Kerrie said it best on the NECC 2008 forum:

Web/Classroom 2.0 just allows me to finally send a wrecking ball blasting through those pesky walls that have been confining my students and myself to a much too small physical classroom space for much too long. Our new adventures in learning have only just begun. Yahoo!

Watch Kerrie Guston!

NOTE: I’m discovering the limitations of the flip, can’t edit frame by frame and the fabulous mic pics up everything in the room. Rather than switch to more feature-rich technology, I’m keeping it simple. Sorry about the awkward start and stop of the video.