Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Anka Rašić on May 5, 2012 at 4:43am

Hello colleagues,
I am from Serbia, a teacher. I am currently working on the inclusion. I have severalpapers published in Power Point.

Interested in organizing recreational education, younger age, 7-10 years.

Greeting

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Permalink Reply by Kimberly S. on May 10, 2012 at 8:58am

My name is Kimberly S. and I'm a 7th and 8th grade language teacher in Illinois. I also have a middle school endorsement in Social Studies and Science. I'm currently working on my master's degree (graduating in Dec. - God-willing!) in Education with a focus on Teaching and Technology. I graduated with my undergrad in 2008 and I have taught at Catholic schools before taking a position at a university library. I'm not getting back into teaching and just landed another position at a Catholic school for the 2012-13 school year. Very excited. I'm hoping to be able to network with other technology specialists as well as teachers who have experience in middle school language arts programs.

Thanks,

Kimberly

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Permalink Reply by Chinwe V. Anunobi on May 15, 2012 at 1:58am

I am Chinwe Anunobi from Nigeria. Currently the Digital Librarian and lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka Nigeria . Very much interested in elearning and Library 2.0

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Permalink Reply by Carol Tsang on May 17, 2012 at 6:46pm

Hey everyone. My name is Carol, math and science teacher in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

I am looking to find more student-centred ways to teach math and science. Specifically, I am trying to put together activities for a lesson for factoring trinomials (math).

So far, I have a lesson on interactive whiteboard and students showing their learning on glogster. How else can I incorporate another type of technology for activities they can try?

Ideas are much appreciated. Thanks :)

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Permalink Reply by Shweta on May 18, 2012 at 11:24pm

Greetings to all. Shweta. A grad student of UI. Looking forward to share my knowledge and learn from educators all over the world.

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Permalink Reply by Pam Murray on May 20, 2012 at 10:07am

Hello! My name is Pam. I am completing my last master's class at U of IL - Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform. I co-teach inclusion Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry - soon to be Math 1 and Math 2. Next fall I will also have a LD Resource Geometry classroom. I am looking forward to being part of the classroom 2.0 community.

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Permalink Reply by reyhan on May 21, 2012 at 12:40pm

A new project, titled the Movement to Increase Opportunities and Technology (FATİH), which seeks to integrate state-of-the-art computer technology into Turkey's public education system. Smartboards and ipads started to be used in pilot public schools. I am as a Language teacher a member of IT Group which develops new ideas and projects for the existing. I am eager to learn orijinal applications and projects, web 2.0 for us to use. Please visit our website.... It is just to test our interaction area for now. Thanks.

Information Technology Group

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Permalink Reply by Steve Banaszak on May 31, 2012 at 9:59am

My name is Steve Banaszak and I am the Think Through Math Account Coordinator. We are a 24/7 Web-based Mathematics solution and have been recognized by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) as the best Mathematics Instructional Solution – The CODiE Award . Think Through Math utilizes Adaptive Content to truly differentiate, Built-in motivation and Live Certified Math Teachers, who are available during the day, evenings and weekends to help students as they are working.

I am a former Mathematics Teacher and have taught HeadStart up to 8th grade in various schools. I joined this site because education is my passion and can talk all day about school. Im also a current graduate student studying Educational Administration.

Think Through Math has 4 great features!

· State Standards & Common Core Ready
· Cost-Effective
· Supports Your RTI Implementation
· Bi-lingual text to speech & Live Teachers

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Permalink Reply by Bisera Ferrero on May 31, 2012 at 2:23pm

Nice to meet you all, Bisera Ferrero from San Francisco here. I am working on a teach / leran startup AskOwls.com with two friends.

Admittedly none of us is an educator, we are engineers and we started our entry into the education in a bit of a backward yet very engineer-like fashion - what can we do with a webcam that's cool and has purpose?

So we created an online learning platform that is based on an idea that anybody could teach something they know to a small live group of 10 students.

I'm here to get educated from the real educators on how to make an useful tool to help connect people who want to share with those eager to learn. I'm all ears if you care to share!

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Permalink Reply by David Baylor on June 2, 2012 at 12:10pm

Interesting concept. I could see the potential for projecting a class for those who are out sick using tech like this. I could also see you starting a whole cottage industry for the home school crowd by having specialists give weekly classes that the home school parents could tap into for the High School level science and math programs.

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Permalink Reply by Bisera Ferrero on June 2, 2012 at 9:29pm

Thanks David, you're correct in that home schooling community could use this for specialist classes, and to generally cut down the trips to meet in person.

We left this platform (intentionally or rather for lack of specific knowledge of educational philosophy) open to our user's interpretation. I am sure interesting uses will emerge, our intent is to observe and try to improve as we go along to make the platform more useful.

Our main premise is that learning is a social act and that one learns better when interacting with other humans. There are fantastic online resources for learning but most of them revolve around interaction with computer and pre-recorded content. We believe that live human interaction needs to be incorporated in the process.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Clifton on June 2, 2012 at 2:00pm

Pretty interesting. I like it and the layout is simple which is helpful. Do you have a monetary offering with any of these classes or is it so far collaborative free to learn and teach? Is this your day job?