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School / Work Affiliation: Scottsdale Unified School District/Computer Teacher

About Me: I have been in the teaching profession, for 38 years. Most of my elementary teaching was at Calumet City, Illinois where I taught K, 3rd, 5th and 6th grade. I had the opportunity to become an Intel Teach to the Future Teacher and was trained by Microsoft and Intel in beautiful Sedona, Arizona when I came to teach in Fountain Hills, Arizona. This started the ball rolling down the technology path, where I became a computer teacher at Mountainside Middle School in Scottsdale, Arizona. I received my Masters in Educational Technology from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. I recently retired from the public school system but still teach one 45 minute 7th grade computer class in computers at Cheyenne Traditional School in Scottsdale, Arizona.

I also work for the Arizona Council of Economic Education, where I am a state representative for the Stock Market Game.

I love the integration of technology into the classroom and have become an integration specialist, which led me to my next part time job of being one of the 14 National Cardre Trainers for the Verizon Foundation. With this position I travel all over the United States and inform teachers/administration/parents of the wonderful site www.thinkfinity.org, where there are over 55,000 free resources that include lesson plans, interactives, web sites, information on literacy, and much more

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At 12:56pm on December 26, 2008, marcotuts said…: Hi Kingston,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. 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

At 12:43pm on March 30, 2008, Deedy said…: I found the message.....I do not know what to do, but there sure are a lot of cool things going on.....this is all about the new web 2.0 stuff out there....guess we need to figure it out!!