Hi Brian,
Thanks for the links. I am running a workshop on Monday for teachers wanting to know more about Peer Coaching for their schools. I was hoping this could be a good place for them to begin blogging and exploring new tools.
Next year I too will be working as a coach across a number of schools in my region. This should prove to be very interesting and rewarding. I'm sure you would have a lot to offer here.
Helen

Hey! I've been looking for you...Finally found you!!

Hi Brian, let me know if you need anything done with this comic strip thingy. Suggestions are really welcome. Note however that I may be a bit slow to because I recently migrated to New Zealand (we arrived last Wednesday). I may be off the broadband connected loop till early January.

Hey Brian,
Nice to hear from you, sounds like you've got quite the experience here in China! Teaching overseas is quite the adventure, surprised you've not gotten into it your self! Our school employs about six technology specialists, HUGE demand for that these days!

I just teach... at the American School... you know, it's like any old American school except it has lots of money and the students all like to work hard and learn... Just kidding, I'm sure lots of American schools are like that, but this one's just really high level. We have students from about 50 countries, although about half are American... over 3000 students K-12, Shanghai's a real international City these days, and it just keeps growing. This school hires about 80 new teachers a year, and the salary and benefits just keep improving since it's harder and harder to find teachers to fill all our openings! We employ 370 teachers right now, will be 400 next year (with about 40 or so leaving, that means 70 or 80 new jobs!) You should look into it, if you like being overseas, that is.

Hi Brian
The use of acronyms can be such a pain.
ICT - Information & Communication Technologies.
TRT - in South Australia, is a Temporary Relief Teacher. This is a teacher who can be phoned by a school to help cover the absence of a teacher due to illness, away at a conference,etc. So... TRT in the States is ??
The power of these networking tools certainly makes it easier to share our knowledge but you have to be careful about these rumours your colleague is hearing!! (lol)
Keeping up with the breadth of innovations in technology is very challenging so I don't see myself as being ahead of the technology curve.

Hey Brian
You are a popular guy. See, I told you I was a member. I will try to be more visible.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the comments - I've fixed the problem with posting them now. I jut checked out your blog - it looks like you've had a good time in China. I've had a great few years here, I really love teaching Chinese people. My students are Korean now, which is also fun. What sort of program were you teaching on here?

Hey Brian-

Thanks for dropping the comment on my wall...let me know if I can be of any assistance in planning for your presentation or during your presentation (skype me in and do a little Q/A...I did this at a PD experience with some other teacher and an author as a way to show teachers the power of connecting via skype). We made a wiki for this PD experience and it can be found here: http://msprofessionaldevelopment.wikispaces.com/

Cheers!

Matt

Thanks for the comment on my blog.

Cheers for the comment. I am the Learner Outreach & Development Manager for ALISON, http://alison,com which is a free to access global learning platform of interactive courses online. Any feedback you could provide about ALISON would be great.

Send me the teacher's name and the names of students who want to blog and I'll set up accounts. Let's start with just a few kids. nbosch@aol.com

Brian, I didn't realize that I was famous! What a nice thing to hear!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving me a message. :-)

Hi Brian

With ALISON we have a global audience and hope to be the number one portal for interactive courseware worldwide. We work with allot of global NGOs to deliver training and education in basic and essential skills

Brian,

Yes, Korea can be fascinating....seems you would know having been in China! One day I'm going to run that great wall (my other passion - running).

Yes, there are lots of classrooms/teachers who'd benefit from classroom sharing/collaboration. I started a Classroom Connect page on my own ning http://eflclassroom.ning.com You are welcome to post there and / or just post on the main forum. Thousands of teachers use the site daily....

but if you tell me what kind of collaboration, age/level etc... you'd like to collaborate with, I'm sure I also could come up with some names.......

Cheers,

David

PS> I don't know the show "Chuck" I'll have to check it out..:)

Seasons Greetings]
J

XD What I saw? Is it Great Wall？Thanks for your welcome. I am from China and now in Japan. Welcome to China and Japan.

Hey Brian,

Technology in Alaska is a lot like technology in the rest of the country. We have some schools and districts that are cutting edge (video podcast news reports, distance learning via video conferencing, Web 2.0 projects, etc.) and we have districts that are focusing on bricks and mortar, real time, face to face education. What we do have in Alaska is long distances, few roads and expensive transportation and telecommunications. It makes every technology decision an economic decision!

Cheers,
-Craig-

Thanks for the welcome, Brian!

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your last message on my page. If you like France and Europe, and even you don't speak french, you can join us in the School Beyond the Walls http://horslesmurs.ning.com . Or you can help us to join teachers of your school speaking french to suggest them to develop intercultural web 2.0 projects with us,

Have a nice day !

Thanks for the welcome Brian. There's great cycling routes here in Ireland (but sadly not great weather!)

Tech facilitator at the shanghai american school for the elementary school on the Puxi campus. Big change after almost a decade of living in latin america...but change is good.

sorry Brian but I don't have any kids this year! I am on Sabbatical and busy learning new stuff BTW I am going to China in April (holiday) so I love your picture!

Hi Brian,
I would have loved to collaborate with your kids but I don't have my own class this year. I will be working mainly with principals and teachers. However, I know many other teachers who may be interested.
What is the project? Age group? What were you thinking in regards to collaboration tools?
Our school year begins on 30th January. Ist term finishes at the end of March for Easter.
Helen

Hi Brian,
Will get in touch with some teachers perhaps late next week as the school year approaches. Many people go away here for the break.
A comparison between the two countries sounds good - perhaps it can be focused on school life? Animals?
Keep in touch,
Helen

Hi Brian, glad something on the blog was of use to you. It has laid dormant a little lately, I've changed the settings on the comments so they should work again now. Let me know what you used, its always interesting to see others' takes on your thoughts.
As far as the maths-math thing, I have no idea, the English language colloquialisms at their best I guess!
Cheers,
Dan

Glad to know u. don't worry, we can communicate well on the net :)

Brian,
I'll have another look at comments - how annoying! I'm actually just starting a project on proffessional growth as we speak. I'll try and get round to updating the blog at the weekend with my progress so far.
Regards,
Dan

Hi Brian,

Congratulations on making it to the district level. Having been through the process, I know how challenging it is to make it through the stages.

Yeah I am quite excited about the award, but it also makes for a crazy year in terms of scheduling. In MA we don't get the year off, but we still have to do the speaking circuit. It's a lot of work, but I am meeting many great teachers and leaders in education.

I go to Dallas in a few weeks for the National Teacher of the Year Conference to work with the other state teachers. It should be an interesting week.

I was in VA this summer leading a workshop on mathematics with some elementary teachers. They were quite an engaging group. I had a great week out there.

Thanks for the comment,
~Mike~

Hi There from Brasil Brian!
Thanks for the welcome, I have been experimenting with Wikis in Wikispaces and saw a posting there for this site and joined up :-) There's a lot to see here, it'll take me a while to look through the site :-)

Brian,

I've been amazed by who has contacted me through my blog, too! I started blogging because it was required for one of my classes, and at first, I didn't "get" it. That soon changed! For me, a blog is a storage place, a place for memories, a history, a cognitive prosthesis...

Hi Brian, Great to hear from you. Special education teachers have been a small minority on Classroom 2.0, so I'm glad you are here. Thanks for the website resource, I added it to my delicious account, I plan to visit it often. Keep in touch.

Thanks Brian. Yahoo! For Teachers is and has been a fantastic project to work on. We've spent two years doing research and development, talking with and collaborating with teachers all along the way. We are looking forward to the launch later this year.

As I've always tended to work with other teachers in this area, we focus on the History subjects that they are teaching at the time. So we try to find the best way to embed the technology in such a way that it enhances the learning experience for students.

Big Best Wishes for the 23rd

It is good to hear from you Brian, I only koined this network 2 days ago, and already I have started communicating with a few people...I have been using Flickr quite a lot with maths teachers. For example if you type in 'hexagon' you get lots of creative images that can be used with students..these work well on an interactive whiteboard...You have done loads of things in your career...best wishes from the UK

Brian, I just realized where you are from. My hubby & I vacationed in Williamsburg last summer, visiting Yorktown, Jamestown, Cheasapeake Bridge, rode a ferry, rode the Gryphon (SCARY!!!), and loved every minute. You live in an amazing area - except your rodes don't make any sense! We spent 1/2 our time lost! *L*

Many thanks for the comment Brian. The Greek comments are translated into English and if you look on the right side of the page there is a google translator widget to translate the whole page into English. Like your Blog as well. Fascinating China.!!!

Hi Brian I'll be there the last week in April. We have an event in the Rose Garden and then a Ball that evening at the White House. I'll be tux shopping soon. I'll take plenty of pictures and post some on my page. I'll also write a blog or two about the experience. Thanks for the interest.

That would be Tommy. I sat next to him on the flight to Dallas. All the state teachers of the year flew to Dallas for a week of professional development and celebration. They fed us well and we had fun getting to know each other. Each one of the teachers is exceptional and dedicated to the profession.

Hi Brian!
Thanks for your welcome! The background in my photo is one of the wonderful places in the south of Argentina where I went for my holidays this summer.
BTW, the background of your photo is stunning, too! Wow!

Happy Easter

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wansnt sure if this was any good for you
Jim

Hi Brian, no I have never done this journey...however I think there is a 'shuttle' service which travels frequently to the centre of london.

Here is a web link that looks useful

http://www.londontoolkit.com/travel/heathrow.htm

have fun

Richard

Thanks for the encouragement, Brian. I hope that I can convince some people in our school system that the physical environment is just as important as the rules we stand by in creating a learning climate.

Hi Brian. Australia has different school systems in each of its six states and two territories. I teach in Victoria, and Year 7 is mainly 12 and 13 year olds, whilst Year 8 is for 14 and 15 year olds: so young teenagers basically. Our students start school in Year Prep, and the following year is called Year 1. The powers that be are trying to bring in a national system. We have a very large and powerful Catholic System which provides excellent education, and a smaller, but influential private system. The Federal and State governments subsidize the Catholic system, and give a lesser amount to Private schools, which are mainly Protestant. This is a sore point amongst non Catholics in this country.
It is interesting that you have been to China. I was in China in 1986, and stood on the Great Wall, however, back then, the people were only allowed to wear green or blue. How times have changed.

have a nice weekend BRIAN least I wont be at MY school

Hi Brian! I'm happy you like the Classroom Displays Flickr group. When you have some terrific learning spaces to share, please join the group!

Hi Brian,
We include the 'communications' part in IT to make it ICT, probably because it's education-based. Don;t yet know content of my other subjects as I am only doing one per semester, but current course is ICT and Classroom Practice, which involves embedding Web 2.0 tools into teaching, using wikis, blogs, podcasts, webquests, social bookmarking, RSS etc. It's extremely interesting and a great way to fine tune the internet to classroom teaching.
Thanks for getting in touch, hope to speak to you again. Regards,
Paul K

Famous? LOL.....more like public is the word. :)

Hi Brian for the time i am in London doing a PhD so i am out of class for some time. I will try to find any interesting class videos from Greece. Nikos