Blog Juice for Educational Technology

David Jakes of The Strength of Weak Ties, posted a great article in the TechLearning Blog this week, The Kids are Alright. He refers to a new blog called Students 2.0 (http://students2oh.org/). Here is the “About Us” caption in the right panel of the blog page.

We are students: the ones who come to school every day, raise our hands with safe questions, and keep our heads down. Except, now we have a voice—a strong voice—to share our ideas through a global network.

It appears to be a rather small collection of high school students from Missouri, Vermont, Washington, Illinois, Hawaii, Korea, Scotland, and New York. It is not clear from the blog itself what this history is, though there is some hint in the comments on David’s T&L blog post and in Kevin Walter’s latest entry. That and a little research led me to this blog post by Clay Burell, Students 2.0 Edublog Pre-Launch: Help Spread the Splash. In it, he features a YouTube video that Jakes also embeds in his blog. I’m not going to re-embed it here. Just go the Clay or David’s blogs to watch, or go directly to YouTube for Students 2.0 Launch Teaser.

I find all of this especially interesting in light of the long conversation that ensued from my confessions about a student panel activity last week.

Added Later:
Ryan Bretag also wrote about this project in TechLearning, in Student Voices Wanted.