I had mentioned that last week at Lewis we held some inservice sessions with staff. One session involved a talk (via iChatAV ) by Dr. Donald Leu of the University of Connecticut. Dr. Leu is well known for his research on New Literacies . His work addresses issues of both theory and practice as the Internet redefines what it means to become literate. I have worked on several presentations with Dr. Leu and asked him if you could speak to my staff as part of our inservice week. He agreed and we connected via iChat and he spoke for about 15 minutes and then took questions from the staff. The presentation then lead to a lab session on iChat. Again using Rendezvous, teachers could easily connect to each other and had a good time experimenting with the text and audio features...