Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Esther Lojo-Escalante on January 12, 2008 at 12:24pm

Hi all,

Greetings from London.

I must confess I'm fairly new to teaching - mainly have done it at a volunteer level. Now I'm facing the challenge to teach sceptical adults, but I'm definitely up for it! :)

I'm looking forward to learn from you, and glad to be part of this community.

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Permalink Reply by Sue Palmer on January 12, 2008 at 1:12pm

Welcome-- Not too worry. Most of the time I am teaching sceptical teenagers! You will get support here.

Sue P

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Permalink Reply by Jeff on January 12, 2008 at 1:29pm

Howdy. I am a fourth grade teacher in Commerce City Colorado. I am integrating lots of technology into my classroom this year. I am looking to do much more collaboration, through Skype, collaborative blogging, wikis? My students get so excited with the ease that they can reach people in other parts of the world!

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Permalink Reply by Timothy McKean on January 12, 2008 at 5:08pm

Hi all! My name is Tim McKean. I just heard about this site on an Ed Tech Talk episode and was eager to join in. I teach middle school technology in Hesperia, CA and teach part time in the Education Technology program at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. Looking forward to hearing from you and working with you in education technology.

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Permalink Reply by Danny Nicholson on January 14, 2008 at 11:14am

Hi Everyone.

I'm Danny Nicholson. Formerly a Science teacher, now a freelance ICT trainer. I'm based in the South East of England.

I specialise in Interactive Whiteboards (and associated gadgets) but i am becoming increasingly interested in tech such as blogging, wikis, Virtual Learning Platforms and Twitter.

I'm still at the enthusiastic learner stage at some of these, but willing to find out more.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff O'Hara on January 14, 2008 at 1:28pm

Hi everyone. I'm Jeff O'Hara I am the webmaster for a k-12 school district and married to a high school science teacher.

I have also recently started a company called Edmodo.com and we are working on building free web 2.0 tools for schools. I also hate the term web 2.0 :)

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Permalink Reply by Sanford Low on January 14, 2008 at 9:43pm

Aloha. My name is Sanford Low, but you all can call me Sandy. I am a Senior Distance Education Specialist at Hawaii Pacific University, and am in the process of developing a communications course about online communications.

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Permalink Reply by Louis Herbst on January 16, 2008 at 9:28am

Hi everyone. My name is Louis. I teach Social Studies here is Quakertown PA. I have been really interested in collaborating with teachers from all over. I would love to have my students and students from around the country/world working together on projects, sharing ideas and teaching each other.

In a couple of months we will be starting an inquiry into Ecuador with Ecuadorian students using moodle. Anyone care to join or know more?

-Louis

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Permalink Reply by Jo Schiffbauer on January 16, 2008 at 10:06am

Hello, all! I'm Jo Schiffbauer and I teach Instructional Technology for preservice teachers. I'm always looking for better ways to teach my students and for them to teach their students when they have their own classrooms. I use eCompanion (a content management system) and I'm incorporating the use of wikis more each semester. I write a tech tips blog for teachers (http://teaching21c.blogspot.com/) called Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century. I would like my students to collaborate with other preservice teachers somewhere on a project. I don't know what or where yet! Any ideas?

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Permalink Reply by Betsy on January 17, 2008 at 11:51am

As a high school librarian in the California foothills and I have been playing around with web 2.0 applications for about 1 1/2 years. I have done two wikispaces activities with my classes with mixed results. I want to improve my skills and understanding so I can bring more teachers into the fold of web 2.0.

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Permalink Reply by Jo Schiffbauer on January 18, 2008 at 9:13am

Last semester my students used a Wikispaces wiki for their electronic portfolios (http://techineducation.wikispaces.com/). This semester they will use PBwiki (http://techineduc.pbwiki.com/).

This semester I'm also using another PBwiki site for a class wiki. So far we have some pages devoted to groups (based on certification they'll have as teachers)... one page that lists by initials who is in each group and then an additional page for each group to use. We used those pages this week for some work in class, but my goal is that they use these pages for asynchronous work, also.

One set of pages is for evaluation of our class activities. Another set of pages was designed to help teach particular topics.

When this semester ends, I'll be able to better compare Wikispaces and PBwiki.

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Permalink Reply by Art Titzel on January 19, 2008 at 8:21pm

Hi. My name is Art Titzel and I'm an 8th grade American Cultures teacher at Hershey Middle School. I'm just beginning to explore using web 2.0 in my classroom. I've signed on here to learn more about how I can use technology in my teaching to engage students and improve their learning opportunities.