Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Dan Klumper on March 16, 2009 at 1:37pm

Hello, All. My name is Dan Klumper. I teach 6th grade social studies at Brandon Valley Middle School, Brandon, SD, USA. I have a passion for technology and using it to maximize student success. My blog address: http://waterforsixthgrade.blogspot.com
Glad to meet you all,
Take Care,
-DK.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Bean on March 16, 2009 at 1:55pm

Good afternoon. This is Linda from Fishers Island, NY. I am a computer/business teacher for a very small public K-12 public school.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Fleck on March 16, 2009 at 4:48pm

Hello Everyone,

My name is Robert Fleck, and I teach fourth grade in Indio, California in the heart of Coachella Valley in Southern California. I recently attended the CUE Conference in Palm Springs, and all I seemed to hear was talk about Web 2.0. I came across this site, and figured that this would be a good jumping off point for me to get better educated as to the uses that Web 2.0 provides as far as tools, and other ways to use technology to engage and inspire my students.

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Permalink Reply by eastendteach on March 16, 2009 at 7:09pm

Hi, I learned about 2.0 at a tech conference today. So excited- I can't wait to learn more but, it will have to wait till tomorrow since it's getting late. I just hope I can get here from work, or if it's blocked by the firewall.

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Permalink Reply by Vickie Tigges McCarthy on March 16, 2009 at 9:21pm

Hi everyone....My name is Vickie and I teach 9th grade World History and World Cultures. I'm looking for and to share great ideas. I am hoping to collaborate, make a few or many new friends, and I want to learn, learn, learn. Right now we are studying WW1 and soon to start WW2. I really want to shake things up...ANY ideas?
take care all.
V

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on March 17, 2009 at 7:23am

Best work my students and I ever did---The Guardians of Freedom. We interviewed 54 WWII veterans.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Bean on March 17, 2009 at 8:29am

Vickie, I would love to talk to you about some projects. I am the computer teacher, but I know that the Social Studies teacher would be really interested.

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Permalink Reply by C. Hutcheson on March 17, 2009 at 9:19am

Nancy, Your "Guardians of Freedom" is INCREDIBLE! Congratulations on a terrific project and the much deserved award!
Please, can you share any details regarding the presentation of it~ web design? what program? Who created the site?
It is so encouraging and exciting to see education taken to this level!

Clair

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on March 19, 2009 at 3:07pm

C., I did the website using Microsoft Frontpage (old software but works for me). With some of my later stuff I buy templates (which allows for more sophistication than I am capable of). You can see our other, newer websites here, CSI:Cemetery Scene Investigation, Titanic in the Classroom and The Inventive Process. Let me know if you need more info. N.

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Permalink Reply by Herb Johnson on March 17, 2009 at 1:19pm

My name is Herb Johnson, I signed in this month. I am taking a class at my school on using an agregator to help orginize information. However, we are using (Netvibes.com) as a source to place our sites on. When I added Classroom20 on my page it has taken over everything! I can not switch back to any of my other sites. I have logged on to many different computers at my school-same problem! If anyone has an answer please let me know. Looks like a great site, but I am sorry I put it on my page. I can not continue with this class as we are suspose to post ten different sites, I have one one other besides yours. HELP!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on March 17, 2009 at 1:50pm

Hi, Herb.

I'm not sure exactly what has happened, but I'm thinking you tried to put a widget for Classroom 2.0 on your Netvibes page and it's doing something that is affecting other widgets? I have never experienced this with Netvibes. Can you tell me what widget you used and how you configured it?

Steve

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Sarell on March 17, 2009 at 9:03pm

Hi I'm a third grade teacher in Cerritos, California which is located near Long Beach. I have been teaching for over 20 years. I have three children and two grandchildren.