Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on March 25, 2008 at 12:44pm

Hi, Trent! Welcome! Hope you get the insight you're looking for... :) You might check the tag links on the right side for discussions of social science and history.

Steve

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Permalink Reply by Anne Mirtschin on March 25, 2008 at 4:20pm

Hi Trent, Great to see another Aussie in this wonderful classroom. I am from Victoria. I know you will enjoy being part of this great community and there is so much to learn about web2.0 in the classroom.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on March 25, 2008 at 9:14am

I would suggest you hook up with several classes to start. We only have 8 weeks left of school but would be interested next September. You can see our blog here http://areallydifferentplace.org Let me know if you want some willing America kids.

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Permalink Reply by Gary on March 25, 2008 at 9:31am

Nancy,
Loved your blog.. What softare do you use that allows you to have the student accounts in the left column.
gary

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on March 25, 2008 at 10:53am

I've been blessed with a former student's dad who designed the blog using Drupal and also serves it!! I hope he continues to do so until I retire in a couple of years. You could get the same effect with blogger or other programs by adding a link to each student's blog in the side column--the beauty of what I have is that recent posts include all blogs so I don't have to use RSS feed to find who wrote what.

Other neat option is the books.
You could ask around, I wonder if 21classes or Edublogs has the option for all the blogs to be linked together.

If you are interested in a Drupal blog I'm sure my guy would walk you through it--let me know and I'll ask him. N.

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Permalink Reply by Colette Cassinelli on March 29, 2008 at 11:10pm

You can link each student's blogs in 21 classes.

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Permalink Reply by Courtney Rodgers on March 25, 2008 at 11:07am

Hello. Courtney from Texas. I teach 7th grade English and I'm the Master Reading Teacher on my campus. I started working on my Master's in Educational Technology this semester. In doing research for a paper on web 2.0, I came across this site.

Because of my work in my courses, I've already started using wikis in my class. I hope this site will help/guide me w/ effective use of the wiki and many other tools.

Looking forward to it!

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Permalink Reply by Helen Otway on March 25, 2008 at 12:11pm

Hi Courtney,
Welcome to Classroom 2.0. I think you may enjoy being part of this community. I have found it very useful for new ideas and support.
Happy exploring!

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Permalink Reply by Emily Sills on July 29, 2009 at 6:59am

Hi Courtney,

I'm going to be teaching 7th-grade English for the first time this year, after a few years teaching 8th graders (on Long Island, New York).

I thinking of some collaboration ideas using technology, possibly long distance writing partnerships. Would you be interested in exploring this possibility?

Emily

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Permalink Reply by Helen Otway on March 26, 2008 at 6:51am

Hi Francis,
I am an Aussie too, from Melbourne. Welcome to Classroom 2.0. Your studies sound really interesting. I would love to hear more about this some time.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hargadon on March 26, 2008 at 1:16pm

Right now you can't, really, since Ning's Terms of Service require that users be 13 years of age. :( Specifically related to COPPA legislation here.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Tantillo on March 26, 2008 at 1:33pm

Hello to all,

Ben Tantillo, superintendent of schools for the Pascack Valley Regional High School District, located in Montvale, New Jesery. Our district is in the fourth year of a 1:1 program where all students and teachers receive a wireless laptop for their use 24/7.

Happy to be here and looking forward to learning much from the members.