Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Tiffany Call on July 9, 2009 at 3:24pm

Hello! My name is Tiffany. I am a third grade teacher. I am starting my 3rd year of teaching! I love having the summer to relax and get new ideas for the following school year. I am currently taking a technology class for education, which leads me to my new classroom 2.0 account. I am very excited to use this site to broader my knowledge of the internet and get ideas from other teachers!

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Permalink Reply by Libby Harding on July 9, 2009 at 3:50pm

Hi Libby Harding here, Kindergarten teacher from Salina Kansas just getting familiar with classroom 2.0. Trying to think outside the box for the youngest learners.

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Permalink Reply by Jayme Peterson on July 9, 2009 at 6:00pm

Hi! My name is Jayme Peterson and I teach kindergarten in Salina, KS. This will by my fourth year. I am working on my masters degree through Baker University and was introduced to Classroom 2.0 through one of my classes. I am amazed at all of the valuable information and resources out there!

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Permalink Reply by Colleen Krakauskas on July 11, 2009 at 11:24pm

Hello all,
My name is Colleen, I am from Philly. I teach Social Studies. I have been teaching in the Philadelphia Public schools for four years, prior to that I taught in private school for 10 years. I have just been enlightened to the web20 technology and I am ready to jump in with both feet. I have some anxiety about my school's equipment (totally outdated) and trying to cope with what my students have to work with, not much. Anyone have any suggestions about sites where my students can create things??? This whole year will be trial and error, in terms of what is blocked or unblocked, what machines need upgrades or not, and how my students will respond. I am so excited for this new adventure. It is amazing.

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Permalink Reply by Amy Pahl on July 12, 2009 at 10:30am

Hey there! I am just starting Classroom 2.0 and I discovered it when I took an archived webinar on technology and math. In the future I am considering taking Teaching and Technology as my masters program, so I have been trying to brush up on my knowledge and use of the medium. I hope that networking with other teachers who are using technology in the classroom will help me grow and find new ways to use innovative teaching methods.

Currently I am part of a teaching team that works with fifth graders in a summer school program. It has been an outstanding experience thus far and I am excited to go to work every day! During the school year I work at a Setting IV school for high school students with emotional/behavioral disorders. We are starting to see more progressive work, but I really look forward to a time when we can better use technology with this population as it is highly engaging and has so much to offer educationally. I suppose that could be said of every classroom though.

Anyway, that is a little about me... :)

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Permalink Reply by Alice Aichele on July 12, 2009 at 11:35am

Hello everyone! My name is Alice Aichele. I teach 8th grade American History in Columbus, Ohio. I am also the IBMYP Coordinator (our school is going to submit Application A in spring '10). I love to collaborate and am looking forward to extending collaboration outside of my school. If anyone is interested in setting something up let me know!

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Permalink Reply by Susan Kerr Jenkins on July 12, 2009 at 12:27pm

Hello! I am Susan Kerr Jenkins from Bullitt County, Kentucky. If you are on Twitter, you probably know me by ssjenk6. I am so excited to have gotten connected here to learn from the group!

I am a District wide Technology Integration Specialist in my district. I serve 7 of our 23 schools training and collaborating with teachers to integrate technology into day to day instruction!

www.bullittschools.org/tis

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Permalink Reply by Aviva Dunsiger on July 12, 2009 at 5:49pm

Hi Everyone! I'm Aviva from Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. I've taught Kindergarten for eight years, and I'm "moving up" to teach Grade 1 next year. For the past couple of years, I've had a SMART Board in my classroom, and I use it all of the time for full-group and small-group instruction. I also used a SMART Document Camera last year, and I was so impressed at how independent my students were at using all of these technological tools. This year, I want to use Skype with my Grade 1 class. If you have any suggestions of different ways to use Skype, or you're interested in partnering with me to use Skype, please let me know. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Brande Stephenson on July 12, 2009 at 7:00pm

Hi my name is Brande Stephenson. I teach high school science at Walton High School in Defuniak Springs, FL. My certification areas are Biology and Chemistry. I teach various classes from Environmental Science to Physics.

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Permalink Reply by Sarah Joy Haberman on July 13, 2009 at 11:13am

HI! My name is Sarah. I will be going into my 4th year at MSUM majoring in elem/sped ed. For one of my on-line summer classes one of our assignments is to start blogging on an educational site. I am looking forward to reading blogs posted by other individuals and participating in blogs myself!

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Permalink Reply by Joel Garcia on July 13, 2009 at 12:08pm

Hello, my name is Joel Garcia. I live in Long Beach, California. I would like to say thank you Steve for opening my eyes to Linux Terminal Server technology. We spoke 14 months ago during the CUE conference and talked about how you created your portable Linux lab, 32 computers strong for around a $1000. I made a diagram of your lab and did a bit of research. In September of last year 2008, I put together a lab of 14 recycled computers that run sweet using Edubuntu 8.04 LTS. I have a website for my students and recently created a blog and now I have joined Classroom 2.0. What is so fabulous about this is that my students are using technology to learn; we have two more labs running strong with two more in the making; and the fact that we are doing this in the midst of a funding melt down in our district at no cost to my school or the district.

Thank You for your EMPOWERING model.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Wysard on July 13, 2009 at 3:05pm

Hi, I'm Nancy Wysard. I'm soooo excited to be part of Classroom 2.0, yay! thanks!!
I'm Puerto Rican but Hawaii is my home now. I love teaching Spanish. I got my Bachelor in Education since Spanish is my native language and got a Master of Spanish (Literature) so that I could teach about all Hispanic countries. I consider myself a fun teacher lol! so I have to constantly search for new innovative ways to get my lessons to my students. I don't know if I'm a beginner in this type of teaching but I have much to learn. I am definitely expanding my teaching style and stepping out into the 21st century LOL! It is definitely a fun adventure. I teach Spanish 1-4 and it will be my third year teaching 8th-12th graders. Fun Fun!