I'm joined by Brad Hicks, Jeff Lebow, Maria Knee of It's Elementary and Cheryl Oakes of Women of Web 2.0 for an ol' time "virtual staff lounge."

We talk about the experiences of those who had been at the Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference. We discuss with Maria some of her technology teaching practices -- she was named the "technology using educator" for New Hampshire in 2007, at the conference. Congratulation again Maria!

It's all the more exciting for me since Maria teaches kindergarten. What a great foundation for her students being introduced to technology at the beginning of their "formal" education.

Later we consider some of the challenges facing students, parents, teachers and administrators working and learning in information communications technology (ICT)-based environments.

We also mention Befuddlr, Webkins, netdayspeakup.org and languagelabunleashed.com