Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Betina Sho on June 26, 2007 at 9:00pm

Hi Everybody! My name is Betina Sho. I am a 7-12 social studies teacher at Lowanna College in Newborough, Victoria, Australia. For the last few days, I have been glued to the NECC '07 site, links, wikis, blogs, videos on demand, etc. Fantastic! I, too, look forward to sharing ideas with all of you.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on June 27, 2007 at 4:17am

Great!
Welcome from Western Massachusetts, USA.

Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Charlie Unkeless on June 26, 2007 at 9:11pm

Hi, I am Charlie Unkeless. I teach math, science, and art at John Burroughs Middle School in Los Angeles. I'm sometimes brave enought to ride my bike to work. I wish I could attend the convention in Atlanta this week.

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on June 27, 2007 at 4:08am

I wish I had been there, too, Charlie.
I feel as if I am the kid staring at the candy shop from the sidewalk.
I wanna go in!

Welcome to the community
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on June 27, 2007 at 4:10am

Great!
Welcome from Western Massachusetts, USA.

Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Chris Jackson on June 28, 2007 at 5:26am

I am an adult literacy and numeracy teacher from Manchester in the UK. I am interested in the way Web 2.0 can help post 16 learners improve skills and confidence.

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Permalink Reply by KevinM77 on June 28, 2007 at 1:54pm

Hello, my name is Kevin McNamara. I'm a middle school technology teacher living in Tucson, Arizona.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on June 29, 2007 at 4:15am

Hi Kevin
This is another Kevin, sixth grade teacher from Massachusetts.
Welcome.
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by KevinM77 on June 29, 2007 at 8:50pm

Kevin,

Thanks for the welcome message. I will write more later.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Berning on June 28, 2007 at 5:10pm

My name is Andy Berning. I am CTO for a Carrollton Farmers Branch ISD --a K12 school district near Dallas Texas

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Permalink Reply by Ron Heasley on June 30, 2007 at 5:54pm

Hello. I am Ron Heasley and I live near Lebanon, PA. I am the Dir. of IT at Elizabethtown College. About 20 years ago I complete an MS in Computers in Education at the University of Oregon. Since that time I have been working in Information Technology (Academic Computing) at the three different college. In 1999 I revamped the Media and Technology course that we offered to preservice teachers. I then taught that course for about 4 years. I will be teaching two 2-credit courses in Integrating Technology this fall. In the second course wewill spend a great deal of time evaluating various Web 2.0 technolgies and their application to education. Since I haven't taught in a public school system for 25 years, I would appreciate anyone sharing their successes and failures using technology.

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Permalink Reply by Julia Osteen on July 1, 2007 at 6:47am

Hello there. Julia Osteen here. I am the Technology Instructional Lead Teacher for Greater Atlanta Christian School, a private K-12 school located in Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA. I support teachers with their use of technology as a tool for effective learning. I have used class blogmeister with my students for two years and am excited about what web 2.0 can do for my students. I plan to work on motivating students and giving my students a voice while effectively implementing several of the tools I found out about during the NECC 2007 conference. We have 35 other teachers who have made a committment to using and helping other teachers use technology effectively for learning. These folks are our Technology Guides. We use LoTi as a focal point so that all teachers can have a common vision for instruction and technology use.