Introductions

Please introduce yourself, let us know a little bit about you, and where you are from.

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Holdsworth on March 14, 2014 at 9:25am

Good morning! My name is Amanda Holdsworth and I live and work in the Ann Arbor, Michigan-area. I have worked in educational communications for more than a decade and am planning on taking the leap back into teaching. I originally taught online courses back in 2003 and then later earned a Certificate in Online Instruction. I'm looking forward to learning from all of you!

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Permalink Reply by Kim Haney on March 20, 2014 at 4:06pm

Hi, my name is Kim Haney. I am a high school chemistry teacher in the Derry Township High School also know as Hershey HIgh in PA. This is my tenth year of teaching. I worked for ten years in industry before teaching. I am married and have a 15 year old daughter. I am looking to network for ideas of how to improve my teaching.

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Permalink Reply by Samina Naz on March 22, 2014 at 12:21pm

Hi,

I am a Primary and Early Years Coordinator at Beaconhouse School System Steel Town campus. We collaborate with different educational forums to enhance our students learning. I'd love to increase student communication and collaboration through email, video conferencing, etc. I hope I will get opportunities and get ideas to use technology to make my students independent learners and to suppot my teachers.

Warm Regards,

Samina Naz

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Permalink Reply by kusum rawat on March 23, 2014 at 12:53pm

Hi everyone. Kusum Rawat here, India. Excited to be part of this group. I am a B. Ed student and looking for opportunities to learn more from you all here.

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Permalink Reply by Elisabeth Bursley on March 24, 2014 at 1:25pm

Hello everyone! I'm currently working on my M.Ed. in English as a Second Language at the University of Mary Washington. I'm looking forward to learning some new things from this community!

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Permalink Reply by USHA SHARMA on March 26, 2014 at 11:21pm

Hello everyone Myself Ms Usha Sharma a Teacher Educator from India we train the future teachers My present goal is to equip my would be teachers with all the knowledge and skills that will cater to the students community thereby making the students a good productive happy human beings in life.I think this is a wonderful platform for collaborating resources.Hope we can do the best for our student s of 21st century

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Permalink Reply by Tiffany Brooke Patterson on March 29, 2014 at 12:11pm

I am Tiffany Patterson from Maryland. I am currently a Stay at Home Mom and I am working towards returning to the classroom in fall of 2014. Before children, I was a second grade and fourth grade teacher. I am currently a student at UMUC, ED Tech Masters program.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Ribera on April 4, 2014 at 9:59am

J Ribera. I am currently living in Utah. I recently graduated in Instructional Technology and help to develop professional development distance learning courses for educators.

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Permalink Reply by Gail Beckman Wingate on April 4, 2014 at 12:54pm

Hello Classroom 2.0 Members,

I'm a grad student at University of Maryland University College working towards a masters in eLearning and Distance Education, and we are studying communities of practice. I've got a short paper to write and I chose Classroom 2.0 for my subject. I've spent the past two days perusing the site to gain as much insight as I can. I saw that in 2008 Turadg Aleahmad and his associate were working on a Classroom 2.0 research paper. I searched high and low for that paper with no luck. Does anyone have a completed copy of it that they could send me. I'm also looking for some analysis data such as quantitative data like level of participation (messages posted and read per person/per day/per topic) and volume of messaging, . And if there is anything else you can tell me about how Classroom 2.0 has enabled you to learn and gain knowledge.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Gail Wingate

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Carmichael on April 10, 2014 at 12:35pm

Hi everyone,

I'm Stephanie, and I'm excited to be participating in conversations about ed-tech and gamification. I'm working with a startup called Classcraft that's a free, browser-based role-playing game that you can overlay onto any lesson plan, subject, and grade level.

I'm looking forward to chatting with all of you! Feel free to get in touch or ask any questions. :)

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Permalink Reply by Kimberly Lumley on May 5, 2014 at 6:22pm

Hi.

I am just getting back into the teaching profession after a 9 year break (kids). Wow have things changed. Just taking a course to reactivate my certificate for Secondary English and El Ed.

Hoping it gets easier as I go!

Kim

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Permalink Reply by mike biegner on May 26, 2014 at 6:24am

Hi Kim. 9 years may seem like a lot, but I am coming back to it after many more than that. If you happen to find communities for 6-12 ELA can you let me know? There is a lot here and other education networks. i can see how this will help. i am just foraging through it all.

I know what you mean about hoping it gets easier. :-)

- Mike