Where are the other Mr. Browns and How Can I Help?

This morning I had the great privilege of speaking to a room full of students at Damascus High School, somewhere out in Maryland, well past my normal geographical boundaries. These folks were taking an Advanced Web Tools class with Mr. Jeff Brown, and they weren’t getting your average high school web class. Jeff, along with his colleagues Jeff Hanson, Barbara Barry, Brian Wall, Nancy Kemp and Cheryl Wall, teach a very relevant applied IT curriculum. As I got to know the class, I couldn’t help but admire how Jeff teaches his web students the things that we’d all hope he would — software-independent and standards-based best practices for communicating online. Does this exist elsewhere in the area, and how can I and others get involved?

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Apr 9 2008 11:53am
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M. Jackson Wilkinson is a technologist, designer, and communicator residing in Washington, DC. He works with the web-loving team at Viget Labs, which helps existing businesses and startups work better online. Jackson also sings bass-baritone with the Master Chorale of Washington, and is a vocal percussionist as well. A Philadelphia native, he holds a Bachelor's Degree cum laude in music and philosophy from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

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