Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by norbert kiprop boruett on July 21, 2011 at 1:45am

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Permalink Reply by Tim Szeto on July 20, 2011 at 4:37pm

Hello! Tim here,

I'm a web safety advocate and educator working out of the San Francisco Bay area, AKA Silicon Valley.

I'm part of a NFP organization that helps teachers, parents and kids with web safety issues.

We host an extensive resource of engaging content on our website (kiwicommons.com) for kids, educators and parents.

The big thing for us is engaging adult-child conversations. It's so important because the most tragic and publicized problems could have been easily avoided if kids had someone to go to for advice.

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Permalink Reply by Ann Wright on July 20, 2011 at 5:04pm

Hi everyone! I teach at Archbishop O'Hara High School in Kansas City, a Lasallian School. I also serve as assistant principal.

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Permalink Reply by Kiwi Commons on July 20, 2011 at 5:09pm

Awesome! Welcome!

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Permalink Reply by Marissa Burnes on July 21, 2011 at 1:31pm

Hello! My name is Marissa Burnes and I am currently a senior at Illinois State University. I am a Secondary Education and History major! I will be student teaching Civics and U.S. History next Spring!

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Permalink Reply by David Gove on July 25, 2011 at 11:49pm

Hi everyone

I'm David from Sydney, AU. I'm a science/biology teacher who has been working in schools around here for about 18 years. I'm looking to collaborate with other teachers on domain specific material in science, inquiry learning and creative avenues for teaching.

I'm particularly interested in the work of Lee Sheldon in the "XP instead of grades gaming model" at the moment and how to incorporate it into a high school classroom programme

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by NINA ZHELEZAROVA on July 26, 2011 at 2:33am

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/

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Permalink Reply by Lauren Merwin on July 29, 2011 at 10:11am

Hi! I'm Lauren from Colchester, VT. Reading Specialist. Thrilled to be here!

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Permalink Reply by Amanda Johnson on August 1, 2011 at 8:13pm

Hey out there my name is Amanda Johnson and I am working on getting my CA clear credential and my MAT with a special education focus. I have my BA in Early Childhood Development. I am very new to 2.0 and honestly am a little lost, but am hopeful I will navigate through this and understand what it is all about. I am the mother to 2 young boys, Jack (2 years old) and Colt (7 weeks old). I am very busy but loving every minute of life. I am not currently teaching, but working part time and spending these crucial first years home with my kids. I am hopeful to start teaching in a couple years.

I joined this as an assignment for my current class and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations to webinars I should attend? Anything is helpful, thanks!

Amanda

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Permalink Reply by Ellen Purrenhage on August 5, 2011 at 12:49pm

Hi Everyone--I'm Ellen and I teach high school English and Theatre in Metro Detroit. I'm excited to be here and I look forward to learning and sharing new ideas.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Campisi on August 6, 2011 at 11:15am

Hello all

My name is Dan and i am from Buffalo, NY USA. I am not a teacher, but, found your site doing a search. I am disabled and have a hard time sitting for longer then an hour or so. Basically what happened was my spine aged three times the rate my body did, so, now that I am 45, my spine is 130 ish. Needless to say, I am in a lot of pain. I thought if anyone would be able to help me, it would be teachers who have to have so much knowledge about everything today to help their students.

I want to start writing again, but, can't due to my health. I recently learned about voice to text software that is good enough to write stories with (and then I can read them over and make corrections). Can anyone point me in the correct direction on how to do this? I plan to write mostly screenplays, but, short stories and novels are possible too. I have a ton of ideas that I never followed up on. I have a Mac as well, so, any help would have to work with a Mac.

Thank you all for reading about me and I hope that someone can lead me in the right direction. I am on SSD, so, I don't make a lot of cash, free software would be awesome, but, if none is available, then I will purchase it.

thanx again

Dan