Joanne Jacobs is hyping Open Planner, which is a website that provides lesson plans in a distribution scheme similar to open source software. You download and use the plans and can modify them as you please, but you should provide your modifications (and the reasons for them) back to them for incorporation with the rest of the planning documents.
It seems to me that a large repository of good lesson plans can't be anything less than a good thing for teachers and students. But then again I'm not a teacher and never really have been. It is my understanding that ownership and originality of your own lesson plans is a contestable issue in the education industry. I think some teachers would consider using outside plans as something akin to plagiarism (similar to the pastoral plagiarism issue that cropped up a while back). And this might just make lazy teachers lazier. On the other hand what I really care about is the quality of the kids educations...
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