A parent of two middle school aged children, Will Richardson has been blogging about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 10 years at Weblogg-ed.com. He is a former public school educator for 22 years, and is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, a unique professional development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the last three years. He is co-author of “Personal Learning Networks” (Spring, 2011, Solution Tree Press), a national advisory board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation, and a regular columnist for District Administration Magazine.