Clay Burell is a man that makes things happen.
And what he makes happen is amazing.
In just 2 more days Students 2.0 edublog will be launched.

Adults and teachers talk about education and students, but rarely invite students into these discussions. Fortunately, this blog plans to change that by offering an authentic student voice upon education. This is not a gimmick, there’s no puppet master: we’re intent upon confronting the issues of modern education, never backing down from a challenge. Students 2.0 is challenge for leaders and teachers alike: are you willing to listen to students?

The Students 2.0 blog is produced by an international team of student bloggers. Key members include:

* Anthony Chivetta, 17, Missouri, USA
* Arthus Erea, 14, Vermont, USA
* Dillon Decicio, 17, Washington, USA
* Kevin Walter, 17, Illinois, USA
* Lindsea Kemp-Wilbur, 16, Hawaii, USA
* Nicole Kim, 17, Korea
* Sean Law, 16, Scotland
* Stacy Zheng, 17, New York, USA

I’m looking forward to reading what these students have to say.
I have no doubt that they will somehow influence the path that I take with my students.

Now it’s really late, but I don’t mind - I had to post.  I’ve just got off a skype call with Clay Burell.  Yesterday I didn’t know Clay but he was in the chatroom of David Warlick’s Keynote to kick off K-12 Online Conference.  I used twitter to ask for student blogs for my students to read and comment on.  The result was amazing!  Ask and ye shall receive stuff. 

Check out the links I was able to put on our class wiki to look at tomorrow!

A bit later in the conversation, Clay was generous enough to share some links to student blogs that he thought my students would enjoy.  This then culminated in a skype call, using Yugma, and together we created a wikispace called YoungWriters07.

We want this to be a space that teachers can go to to find blogs for their students to read and/or comment on , and/or for a teacher to add blogs to, to increase a blog’s audience.

If you’ve got students that blog, please add them to the wiki.  If you’ve found really good student blogs and the Teacher doesn’t mind, please add them to the wiki.

Let’s get student conversations and connections humming!