Will Richardson

Will Richardson is an author and speaker on educational technology. He has many published works, including the book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, and the edublog Weblogg-ed which he wrote from 2001 to 2011. Richardson is also active on the web; he has both a Twitter account and YouTube channel. Richardson co-founded Modern Learner Media and is co-publisher of ModernLearners.com. He also co-founded Change School, an online learning resource for educators. Richardson is a founding partner of Connective Learning, LLC. He promotes the implementation of Read/Write technologies in K-12 classrooms. He is also an advocate for school reform which encourages the integration of technology in learning. He was also named to the National Advisory Board for the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Along with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, he co-founded Powerful Learning Practice, a company that delivers job-embedded, year-long professional development to schools worldwide around the pedagogies of Web 2.0 tools. District Administration magazine has published a quarterly column by Richardson titled "The Online Edge".Richardson has been part of a panel presentation at the 2006 Milken Global Conference and has given presentations all over the world.