If you have ever experienced a Beyond Chalk seminar or workshop, one thing is resoundingly clear > we love our job.

In a Beyond Chalk first, we are giving you the chance to become a part of our extended team! This newsletter goes out to thousands of passionate teachers around the world and we want you to be a part of it!

With the roll out of laptops at a 1 to 1 ratio in many schools, the issue of bullying via social networks is a real and important one. A stand recently taken by one school principle, Anthony Orsini from Benjamin Franklin School in New Jersey, made the news world wide.

Richard Buckland in a Computer Science Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. I recently came across a video of Richard talking about the ways in which Wikis can be incorporated into the classroom.  As teachers we can sometimes be reluctant in allowing our students to participate in a Wiki for we fear that they will misuse the space. We often have this fear that students will abuse and bully via the technology, we block Facebook and YouTube. Surely we must ask ourselves are we looking for a technical solution to a social problem? If the answer is yes then we are headed down the wrong path. We live in a world  that is full of dangerous and damaging information which our children can access at a moments notice, but is blocking these sites the answer to the problem?

Recently Beyond Chalk was invited to host a live webinar event for teachers in Ohio. The event was facilitated by E-Tech Ohio, a state agency dedicated developing programs and using global best practices to serve learning organizations while acquiring, integrating and sustaining educational technology.

As a special gift from E-Tech Ohio and Beyond Chalk you have the opportunity to listen in to this session. Click through on this link to access the webinar recording: http://www.etech.ohio.gov/elearning/webinars/archives/

I recently had the privilege of sitting down with a teacher to assist her in building her school's strategic for moving towards wholesale technological integration in the classroom.

We dubbed what we built that day The Voltron Plan for Full Staff Technology Integration

If there is one thing that we know about teachers is that there is never a shortage of work to get through! The federal funding for technology in the classroom was great, but how about a federal initiative to generate an extra hour a day or an extra day in the week!