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Will Richardson
Bringing the Transformative Power of Web 2.0 to Teaching and Learning
The parent of two middle school aged children, Will Richardson has been writing about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 10 years at Weblogg-ed.com and in numerous journals and magazines such as Ed Leadership, Education Week and English Journal. And over the past six years, he has spoken to tens of thousands of educators in over a dozen countries (China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, UK and others) about the merits of learning networks for personal and professional growth.
He is a former public school educator for 22 years, and is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice (plpnetwork.com), a unique professional development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the last three years. His first book,Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin Press, 3rd Edition 2010) has sold over 75,000 copies and has impacted classroom practice around the world. In May, 2011, Solution Tree will release his second book: Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education.
Will is also a national advisory board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation, and a regular columnist for District Administration Magazine.
Will lives in beautiful Western New Jersey with his wife Wendy and his children Tess and Tucker.
