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School / Work Affiliation: Director Science Muse/ Grad Student/ teacher

About Me: In the last 18 years I have been a Montessori teacher , teaching lower elementary, upper elementary, and middle school. For a number of years I was a middle school principal. In addition the last 7 years I have been a part-time Wildland firefighter/EMT. I have been to the state fire Academy, wildland firefighter school, EMT school, paramedic school, and hazardous material school.( everyone has to have a hobby) My other hobby is hiking. My best trip was a sole adventure on the arctic coast of Alaska.

Coca-Cola lies, polar bears do NOT greet you with a coke and a smile.

In the last several years I have done some grant writing , and part-time teaching while working on my PhD.

I am currently doing some research on technology treads in education and the economic, social, and political trends which will be drivers and barriers that effect economic development in the next 20 years. In addition to my research , I still keep my hand in real education. Last year I taught honors physics part-time. My Rocket America team beat out 1200 other teams to make it to national competition. Additional , another one of my students won the Math and Engineering award for his science project in regional science fair . Right now I teach a 400 level research class at a local college.

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At 3:29pm on December 30, 2008, Jack said…: Hi DJ!

Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from Arizona!

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 1:17pm on December 26, 2008, marcotuts said…: Hi,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com