Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Sean Hanson on January 26, 2009 at 12:15pm

Hi everybody! My name is Sean Hanson. I live in SE Pennsylvania. I teach general computing to middle and high school students at a special education school.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Lewis on January 26, 2009 at 3:51pm

Hi Rich,

Here's a link to last year's multimedia projects for English Honors II http://www.lewismct.com/Multimedia1.html
I use http://lewismct.wikispaces.com/ for vocab collaboration and http://www.quia.com/instructorZone to make interactive games for my classes; you can also use activities and quizzes other teachers have made. I've recently joined a 23 Thing initiative to learn about technology with librarians http://discoverexploreapply.blogspot.com/ and I'm taking a 3 level podcasting course. Please reply with your wiki and blog address.

M Lewis

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Permalink Reply by Howard Strey on January 26, 2009 at 4:29pm

ello Everyone,

Howard Strey from St. Peter, Minnesota. Media Specialist at the Middle/High School. Thanks for having me.

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Permalink Reply by Karla Olson on January 26, 2009 at 5:21pm

Hi Howard! I'm not far from you...I live in Marshall and teach in Minneota. :)

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Permalink Reply by Howard Strey on January 30, 2009 at 12:18pm

Hello Karla,

This looks like a very active and informative site.

Howie

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Storer on October 17, 2009 at 8:02am

Hello! I teach in your neck of the woods! I teach 1st grade at Brookville Area in PA, 20 minutes down the road! I am really interested in implementing more technology in my classroom and would love some good suggestions!

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Permalink Reply by Katrina Johnston on January 26, 2009 at 7:16pm

Hello. My name is Katrina Johnston. I live in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania and teach high school chemistry. I am currently taking a graduate course in Web 2.0 and am exploring this site for ideas!

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Permalink Reply by Laura Cawley on January 26, 2009 at 7:41pm

Greetings from the frozen tundra! My name is Laura Cawley. I'm currently in Cleveland, OH teaching preschool. I'm enrolled in my Master's program for Instructional Technology and I have no clue what I'm doing here!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 27, 2009 at 10:14am

Welcome, hang around and you'll learn a lot. N

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Permalink Reply by Ojas Ray on January 26, 2009 at 8:38pm

Hello Hello,

Ojas Ray from NJ - 7th Grade Social Studies Teacher and oh yeah "i am a first year teacher." I am very much interested in technology in the classroom and overall the use of technology in education. Hopefully if i find a good program and a school that offers some online classes i want to get my masters and Ed.D or PhD in Educational Technology. I find it amazing how far technology has evolved into. However, i also find that many schools that i have seen do not utilize the maximum power of this great asset. Thus i want to become a Educational Technology Consultant - yes, that's my own field name i guess. But really want to be a person who goes to different schools and districts and just observes the use of technology and make recommendations on how 1. it can be improved 2. used more effectively and 3. incorporated more within a given unit/lesson

so if anyone out there is already doing this -- PLEASE contact me and let me know how to go about doing this.

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Permalink Reply by Polgara59 on January 26, 2009 at 8:50pm

Hi...I'm Lee and I teach junior high math and social studies in a rural K-9 school in central Alberta, Canada. I'm also involved in leading a 1-1 laptop project in our school division. I don't know nearly as much as some would have me believe...always looking for new ideas, especially for engaging projects for my math students that have a real connection to our provincial outcomes and the world at large.

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Permalink Reply by Laurie Callihan on January 26, 2009 at 9:29pm

Hi,

I am a 20+ year teacher with varied experiences most recently in 8th science (but have taught over the years PreK to college at one point or another! mostly science) and am now a Doctoral Student - University Fellow at Florida State University. I am particularly interested in using gaming technologies in the classroom - a brand new fascination - I have been using various Web 2.0 technologies - blogs, wikis, websites, etc. for some time. Have just begun to explore Second Life for Educators, etc. Hoping to learn more from my colleagues here at Classroom . . .

Laurie