Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Stanley on December 29, 2010 at 7:04am

My name is Tom Stanley and I am from Las Vegas, Nevada. I am currently an instructor at the Advanced Technologies Academy and have helped build an on online school in Las Vegas, Nevada. My passion is using technology to help improve th learning of my students in a project-based learning environment. What I discovered while teaching and being an online instructional designer is that you can use project-based learning in the online and blended learning envvironments. I have helped build professional development for online teacherrs/students, worked with teachers to building online classes that are interactive and project oriented, and done multiple online/realtime activities using synchronous and asynchronous tools in an online and real time environment. I am currently still teaching and am building a company to work with schools/ groups to create effective PBL projects that are local, state, national and international in scope.

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Permalink Reply by Caz Martin on January 1, 2011 at 9:40pm

Hi all,

Hi I'm Caz. I'm a Grade 3 teacher and 3/4 Team Leader in Melbourne, Australia. I am paritcularly interested in Literacy and curriculum development and my goal this year is to include more technology in my classroom. I'm here to help build up my PLN and get to know some like minded people. Nice to meet you all :)

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Permalink Reply by norbert kiprop boruett on January 2, 2011 at 11:24am

Caz

You are in the right forum- you will develop and achieve a lot in classroom 2 to achieve your dreams

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Permalink Reply by Caz Martin on January 5, 2011 at 3:31pm

From just being around here for a couple of days I have already learnt so much :)

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Permalink Reply by Trevor Connolly on January 4, 2011 at 10:06am

Hi,

My name is Trevor, I'm from Limerick in Ireland and now I'm working and living in Dublin. I teach History, English and ICT in an all boys secondary school with students ranging in ages from 13 to 18.

I love technology and try to use it in both the teaching and learning that happens in my school. This year I've started a school news blog with students as the 'journalists' and we are in the process of introducing Google Apps to the school.

I'd like to expand my knowledge and use of web 2.0 and expand my PLN. You can find me on twitter @ConnollyTrevor

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Permalink Reply by norbert kiprop boruett on January 4, 2011 at 11:20pm

Trevor- thanks see you in twitter

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Permalink Reply by Jim Ocnow on January 5, 2011 at 12:29am

Im from California

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Permalink Reply by norbert kiprop boruett on January 5, 2011 at 5:13am

welcome

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Permalink Reply by Jeffrey C. Long on January 6, 2011 at 1:31pm

Greetings all,

I'm Jeff, currently teaching in a private college prep school in DE after returning home from teaching in PYP classrooms internationally. I'm happy to have found your site!

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Permalink Reply by Doug Loader on January 6, 2011 at 10:30pm

Hi there,

my name is Doug. I work as a technology integration specialist at a K12 school in Australia Perth. I offer support to all departments with their technology queries. I do specialise in Apple (the school are a 1:1 Macbook school) but I also promote many different vendors/companies.

I look forward to sharing ideas!

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Permalink Reply by A. A. Karim on January 8, 2011 at 6:52am

Hello everyone! Greetings from Malaysia. My name is Karim. I'm a lecturer in Food Technology, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, MALAYSIA. Apart from being an active researcher, I spend a great deal of time to learn new things about teaching and learning. I have a blog, One Stop Learning and also a personal website (in the process of updating soon). I hope to link up with educators from around the world who shares the same passion for learning and education in general. By the way, the introductory video above was created with Voki. For the narration I used text-to-speech option. I tried to embed the embedding code but the video didn't appear correctly. So I played the video and captured it with Screenr, copied the embedding code and the result as you can see above.

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Permalink Reply by norbert kiprop boruett on January 9, 2011 at 11:37pm

Karim- you are the guy.We have similar interest. I have tried a number of things in wikispaces and in a lot of google apps. i have tried something on back channel. from the look of things i will be surely be your student- ventured into voki-but didn't do much- so i am going to go your blog and learn more from you.

go to this site-

http://bit.ly/11newthings