I have been a co-director of the CASTL (Carnegie Academy of The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning),where we involved teachers, the Quest Project where we involved teacher educators using teacher  practice teaching pre-service students, and the NOYCE project where we documented a professional development project that had been going for over 6 years.  We documented the developer and then 4 teachers in grades K-5 showing how they use the writing process in their classrooms.

We have learned a great deal about what appears to make a good site for users.  We have moved our work from showing single teachers to showing several teachers on the same site (which you can look at at the same time).  And interesting enough, we find that the NOYCE site has great appeal to organizations and networks that feel like collaboration and "going public with teaching" are part of their mission.  This needs more discussion and understanding.

I have been interested in networks, collaborations, coalitions and consortiums for many years and find that they are an important foundation for teachers who will be the ultimate users of our multi-media work. It is complicated by the time factor for teachers, but also by who  teachers will listen to, and the approach the media takes to teachers' learning.  So, I guess you could say that my interests are not only with the multi-media, but with a deeper understanding of the audience and  how they are to be nurtured and developed to use the work that many of you are doing.

Also, we are at a point where we need to do research on the use of media, what teachers get out of our sites; and how they incorporate what they learn into their practice.