The other point that has to be acknowledged is that while you’ve spent the time and energy to build a network that can make a project like this thrive, an average teacher can’t expect to see that kind of return until they’ve made an investment into their PLN community. As you sow, so shall you reap.

The first and most powerful step for anyone who wants to help others would be to help teachers build their own PLN using whatever tools best fit their needs. Twitter is one tool, but if they envision a network built to help them more in projects and curriculum, they might look to sites such as Teachers Connecting at http://www.teachersconnecting.com

Great project and I’m thrilled I got to be a part of it and to see how far and wide one Twitter community can reach!

I was actually kind of daystorming? (daydreaming + brainstorming) a way to post all of these kinds of requests in a single location. I wouldn’t mind spending ten minutes every morning answering surveys and reading particular student blogs. It wouldn’t as much traffic, I know, but half those answers in half those locations would have been exciting. I think for my teachers my might look toward Jen’s Ning or maybe something like ePals or somewhere more appropriate to hook up, but for this one time, as I said, I’m very grateful to my Twitterverse. Hmm… maybe I can set up an auto-publishing Twitter account that teachers can DM their request to, then it published out the request and then only teachers/edtech that follow it will see it anyway. Hmm…..

Doing this, and seeing the responses made me more determine to learn to use Google Apps this summer. Glad it worked out for your daughter!