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

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on October 21, 2008 at 2:15pm

Welcome, boy does it sound like you have a great job!

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Kendall-Jones on October 21, 2008 at 4:10pm

I think so, although I can definitely say I am not in it for the money! I do worry about the restraints on teachers under high testing environments such as the USA and UK have at present. Is that where you are at? Our biggest problem is probably professional collaboration for transitioning students because we are fairly free to teach differently in every classroom - I am a big fan of curriculum mapping.

Thanks for the comment.

Stephen

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on October 21, 2008 at 5:04pm

I can see where a body of skills at some final point would be helpful, yes I teach in the US and teachers in the regular classroom are hinder by state testing and scripted reading and math programs. I teach gifted kids (top 1%) but my cohorts in the regular classroom complain about the tight restrictions for what you can teach. Science and Social Studies have been religated to the back burner.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Baird on October 22, 2008 at 4:31am

I agree with Nancy. It sounds like you have a great job. I am at the high school level in the USA and although my subject area (German) doesn't have the high stakes testing, I still feel the pressure. Enjoy your job!

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Permalink Reply by Holly Debenham on October 22, 2008 at 12:32am

Hello
I'm interested in getting my students involved in an online collaboration project. I just completed my masters degree in ed technology and have been venturing into new ideas with my teaching. I teach 7th grade science which in our curriculum is life science.

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Permalink Reply by Angel on October 22, 2008 at 2:06pm

Hello. My name is Angel Mootispaw, I am from Ohio, and I work in the Instructional Design field. I am currently researching web 2.0 tools that will enhance learner engagement in higher education. My goal is to be able to help faculty to incorporate the use of these tools to further develop their f2f classes and to enrich their distance education courses.

Any suggestions are appreciated, especially in the area of mathematics!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Bassill on October 23, 2008 at 10:40am

You might be interested in the articles about visualization posted on the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site.

On this blog article we list some links to visualization work done by college students working with us over the past year.

One role students in high school and college might take is to use these new visualization and communications tools to communicate ideas that draw people together to solve problems in the community and the world that adults have not yet figured out how to solve. If any of you would like to do this in collaboration with the Tutor/Mentor Connection, I'd be happy to have your help.

I host a conference every November and May to draw leaders of volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs together, and to create visibility that draws volunteers and donors directly to different programs, especially around the holidays when people are being more generous. If students were creating and communicating visualizations, YouTube videos and other media during the time frame of the conference, and with the same goals, their combined media would be a force of advertising and leadership that would bring support to tutor/mentor programs throughout the country.

One of the workshop panels for the conference focuses on ways to integrate arts, technology and writing into non-school programs. If any of you in the Chicago region would like to be part of that panel, please contact me via the conference web site.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Habra on October 22, 2008 at 9:21pm

Hello all, just checking out what my students already know. Part of getting old I guess :)

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Permalink Reply by Jacob Doran on October 23, 2008 at 11:12am

Hello!

My name is Jacob Doran, and I am currently a pre-service teacher in Columbus, Ohio. I am studying secondary integrated language arts. I am here to find whatever I can to help me prepare to teach high-school English. I found this site while doing research on using web 2.0 in the classroom.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on October 23, 2008 at 6:15pm

You are in the right place, you will find more info here than you will ever be able to use.

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Permalink Reply by Richard on October 24, 2008 at 8:51pm

Hello,
My name is Richard, I teach high school computers and yearbook at an international school in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I am interested in shaping the students' use of Web 2.0 technologies for life long learning. I am very interested in social networking and connectivity and would like to discuss ideas on how to facilitate educational use of these tools.

The discussion at http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/brave-new-classroom-20-new-... is highly recommended. Thanks to Steve for his work on this.

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Permalink Reply by Casey on October 25, 2008 at 7:32am

Hello! My name is Casey Giordani and I am a instructional tech specialist and hs math teacher in Hingham MA. I am looking to start video conferencing at my school. We are a PC district with a few iMacs in the LMC. (I am a mac myself). I have tried the isught cam build in while using skype. I was successful in transmitting my image, but could not see the use on the other end. The sound kept breaking up as well. I have done this from home with great success though. Any thoughts? And thank you for having me!