Steve Hargadon is the director of the K12 Open Technologies Initiative at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) in the US and the founder of Classroom 2.0.

He travels across the United States, speaking and consulting on educational technology, Web 2.0, social networking, free and open source software, computer reuse, and computing for low-income populations.

Classroom 2.0 is an online meeting place for educators interested in using the Web to build better relationships with their peers, students, parents and local communities.

If you want to see an online community of teachers in action, start athttp://www.classroom20.com/profile/SteveHargadon and follow the links, threads and pathways.

Steve Hargadon is coming to Australia in November as a keynote speaker at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association, whose members comprise primary and secondary Information Technology teachers, tertiary educators, and any person with an interest in Information Technology education.

Read more at http://www.vitta.org.au/conferenceinfo/cid/1/parent/1/pid/1/t/conferenceinfo/title/vitta-annual-conference-2009