Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Lynn on January 4, 2009 at 11:41am

Hi Nancy,
I used to teach at Conant H.S. I'd love to hear what you are doing in your group. Where do you teach? I lived in Barrington and Cary. I heard Will speak, have his book, and need TIME TO READ it!

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Connelly on December 31, 2008 at 10:28am

Hi Folks,

Glad to be here, love the site and I am meeting great people! I joined recently, so here is my intro - I live in Grafton Massachusetts. I am not a teacher, but work for a social networkiing platform that helps teachers incorporate a fun technology into the classroom - www.glogster.com/edu. This site allows teachers to create online, interactive, educational posters, or "glogs". In a private, secure, teacher-managed site, teachers and students can create glogs using text, video, audio, music, photos, images, and more. The feedback so far has been very positive, but we are always looking for more. I am hopeful people on this site will register for free and test us out and let us know any feedback so we can become better.......

Thank you!
Andrew
andrew.connelly@glogster.com

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Permalink Reply by Hui-Wen on December 31, 2008 at 1:17pm

Andrew,

I visited this website a few weeks ago, and found that it will be interesting in classroom.

Can you post some teacher examples using gloster? I am thinking of creating my teaching
glogster next semester. Thanks. ^_^

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on December 31, 2008 at 4:37pm

Andrew and Hui-Wen, This young woman has done some neat projects using primary source documents with Glogster. There was a discussion here at CR 2.0 about using Glogster a while back, you can read the responses here.

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Permalink Reply by Janice Edgar on December 31, 2008 at 11:50am

I am a fifth grade teacher is a small rural community in Missouri. I am a mom of three and a wife of ten years. I started using technology in my classroom, even though it was very limited, my first year teaching. This is my third year in the profession and with the help of a grant I have transformed the way I deliver instruction in my classroom. Although I still have a lot to learn. That is what lead me to this group. I look forward to learning from you all.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on December 31, 2008 at 4:31pm

Welcome, I'm sure you will learn a lot. I live in a south KC suburb.

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Permalink Reply by Stefan Richter on January 1, 2009 at 2:13am

Hello and happy new year!
My name is Stefan Richter and I am the founder and developer of Scribblar, a free browser based whiteboard and collaboration platform (www.scribblar.com). Scribblar is currently being used by teachers for classroom based activities as well as online tutors and homework helping sites around the globe.

My personal blog can be found at www.flashcomguru.com where I write about Flash Video and related technologies.

I look forward to contributing to this community and hope to also be able to gather some insights into how Scribblar could be improved to serve the educational space better.

Best wishes,

Stefan

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Attard on January 1, 2009 at 3:56am

Hello, I teach Year 1 in Sydney, Australia. I'm exploring ways to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.

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Permalink Reply by Sue on January 1, 2009 at 5:33am

Hello all, I have just joined - very eager to figure out all this new techno stuff. I work at Monbulk, teaching and live in the Yarra Valley. I am curious about the differences between a blog, a ning community and a wikispace - all are web2.0 thingies - trying to figure out which is the best - firstly as an educator and secondly in working with a community group who want to have greater input from the community.

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Permalink Reply by Magical Bill on January 3, 2009 at 2:54am

Hi Sue,

Welcome to classroom 2.0.

I just assumed that the local primary schools and teachers were way ahead of the secondary colleges.

I'm just starting to try to use blogs and wikis and a few other web 2 tools in my classes in the Adult VCE program at Victoria University.

You might find the edulists (http://www.edulists.com.au/) a means of getting in touch with other Victorian teachers. Or you might subcribe to Sue Waters technology blog (http://aquaculturepda.edublogs.org/).

Regards, Bill Oldham (sessional teacher at VU and Chisholm TAFE)

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Permalink Reply by Johnathan Chase on January 1, 2009 at 7:14am

Greetings,

I am a middle school social studies teacher and advocate of arts integration. Very interested in the merging of art, technology, and media literacy with a central focus on character education/social and emotional learning.

Developing skill-based interdisciplinary lessons and learning activities that stimulate both the heart and mind.

Check out Once Upon a School for more background information.

Happy New Year!

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Permalink Reply by Box Ruiz on January 2, 2009 at 9:53am

Hi everybody!

My name is Box Ruiz, I'm a forange language teacher (English and French) in Dominican Republic. I'm interested in web 2.0 as a tool for better teaching practices, specialy Forange Language Class. I hope to have a really nice experience in these social network. Please, contact me if you like to share experiences.

Mu best regards.

Box Ruiz