Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on August 16, 2007 at 8:52pm

There are a lot of Kansans here. Rock Chalk. Welcome. N

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Permalink Reply by Jason Beckerman on August 17, 2007 at 4:02pm

Hi,

My name is Jason Beckerman, I am 25 and from NJ. I now reside in NYC. I have my masters in organizational leadership and an undergrad degree in IT and Entrepreneurship.

I recently started an organization called Teach The People. I need teachers and professionals who are interested in sharing their knowledge. There is ZERO cost for my service, and it will allow you to teach anything online.

Please see our brand kit and sign up for our beta release at http://www.teachthepeople.com

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Permalink Reply by Mark Schmidt on August 18, 2007 at 2:16pm

Hi, I'm Mark from Springfield, PA and I'm excited about the possibilities of this site!

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Permalink Reply by Gregory Zobel on August 19, 2007 at 11:36am

Hello! My name is Gregory, and I teach composition at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, CA.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Stevens on August 20, 2007 at 11:16am

Hi
My name is Lisa Stevens and I'm from Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham in England. I teach Spanish to primary aged pupils (3-11) and am interested in using Web2.0 tools with them.
I'm new to all this but am learning fast so I hope to continue my learning curve here.
Lisa xx

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Permalink Reply by TeachingSagittarian on August 20, 2007 at 2:26pm

Hi Lisa!
Welcome to the Ning! This is the best place to pick up suggestions, tips and tricks about Web2.0 tools and using them in the classroom. I'm a middle school classroom teacher and I teach a Level 1 spanish class (to 11-12year olds) in New Zealand as part of our curriculum. You might want to take a look at http://www.voicethread.com
It's a fantastic tool that my spanish class is using at the moment to record their practise of speaking spanish with images to talk about. I will send you the link when it's finished (it's not published yet).

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Stevens on August 21, 2007 at 7:36am

Hi TeachingSagittarian - thanks for the welcome. I'd love to find out about more about this - you're the third or fourth person to mention voicethread recently!! I look forward to the link!!
Lisa xx

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Permalink Reply by Sue on August 22, 2007 at 1:28am

Hi all I just realised I still haven't done my introductory even though I have been reading the ning for awhile. I am a high school English Teacher from a Govt school in Australia. We are only just using our first electronic whiteboard and I am the only blogger at my school with 100 staff so this is heaven for me as I can see where I can go with what has become a very big part of my life.My blog is http://www.andanotherthing-sue.blogspot.com/ so come and visit and hopefully we can collaborate as epals.com just isn't enough any more and there are so many wonderful ideas on the go but so many staff are not wanting to expand their view of the classroom.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Hutchings on August 22, 2007 at 7:00am

Hi
Nathan here, I teach IT at a k-12 school in Queensland Australia. I'm interested in Secondlife, when my first life gives me time to explore it. Currently I develop online learning content using Moodle which we host on site at our school. The main software tools I am currently using in my teaching are Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, MicroWorlds EX, Captivate, Microsoft Office and Game Maker.

Thanks Steve for setting up this social network I look forward to watching it grow.

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Steve Weary on August 22, 2007 at 11:25am

Hi,

Steve W. here. I live in Sherbrooke Quebec and work for the Eastern Townships School Board. I strive to help teachers provide meaningful uses of technology to improve student learning. We are the only public board in Canada that provides laptops to ALL teachers and students from grade 3 up to Secondary 5. I like the participatory aspect of Web 2.0 and am always looking for learning ideas from people who have used technology to improve student learning and achievement in the 'standard' curriculum.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Brumsted on August 22, 2007 at 3:25pm

I'm a school library teacher in Jackson, WY and also a member of the Teacher-Librarian.ning network. As a first year teacher & school librarian, I'm hoping to find support, inspiration & ideas from online discussions, forums and examples of what other classrooms (of all kinds) are up to.

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Permalink Reply by steph Stockman on August 24, 2007 at 9:13am

Hi everyone. I'm Stephanie Stockman from Lanham, MD. I work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. I've been exploring Web 2.0 applications and networks. I develop and implement education and outreach for NASA science missions and am looking for ways to reach teachers and students both in and outside the classroom.