PS Thanks for the kudos on CSI. Did you see Guardians of Freedom 2001? http://connections.smsd.org/veterans That was the best work I'll ever do in my career--I hear from people weekly looking for a connection to one of our veterans.
Hi Ed, Hope the game went well. You need to be in a good frame of mind for Indigo's games. I desperately want to solve this puzzle. I am stuck. You would appear to be someone who could help. I found the article referred to by entering "Julius Caesar" 'romans in britain" and "report to rome" The article I found contained quotes. I went for the first one I found which was a colour, but if you read on, there's a much better answer. Then I was able to convert it to hex (I had no prior knowledge of what this was) by going back to the original discussion in binary. I would have about one hundredth of your programming knowledge and about the same of history knowledge. You are far better placed to do this than me, and I am still hopeful that I can do something like this with my students. Talk about optimism.
Ed,
Your comment made my week1 Congratulations--wonderful!!
This is so exciting. I hope you'll make a big post about it when you get the chance, both here and at Fireside.
Having communities for professional learning has made all the difference for me, too--and for so many people I send thanks to Steve for founding this site, and for everyone who reaches out with support and encouragement to their online colleagues.
I love your emphasis on civic culture. It's been a great inspiration. Please share what you are learning and proposing about building sustainable initiatives in education. Thank you for being such a leader in this.
Thank you so much for the good news and for the warmth of your note, which is validating the work we put into caring for each other, caring to know about what's going on, caring to learn what we're all up to in our endeavors to make a difference!
Hey Ed, just wanted to let you know that we are a Web 2.0 Class at Millis High. We are working on, through technology, ways to bring collaborative project into the classroom. Do you have anything to offer?
My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win a competition for startup funding on ideablob.com. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
We're actually still working on the website right now-a better description should be up in the next few days. The description that's up on ideablob is also not geared towards teachers-it's a very general description of what we're doing made to fit within the 1000 character limit we were given.
The six of us have been doing a lot of research and user studies-talking to teachers, students, and parents to see where their values lie and what types of software would be most helpful to them. To add to that, we have an engineering bias which has been reinforced by much of the reading we've been doing on technology in education. This results in a very strong belief on our part that students need to have the technology that they use in their daily lives integrated with the learning environment that they are in. Thus, we would be doing two main things. We would incorporate technology into the learning environment by
1. acting as an aggregator that would bring some very useful web tools to the fingertips of students (things like google docs, digg, and wordpress blogging)
2. giving students a different medium (one that they likely already use in their daily lives) to actively (even passively) learn in.
3. giving teachers a simple and intuitive way to integrate this technology into their assignments while keeping everything simple and intuitive
We would also be serving as a platform to increase and enhance communication between teachers, students, and parents. For students, in addition to keeping their schoolwork and study aids/information all in one place online, this would act as a social network in which students, teachers, and parents would be able to communicate. We understand that there are many security concerns with something like this, and we are in the process of addressing exactly how those interactions would need to occur so that security would not be an issue.
We've come up with a lot of ways to do this thus far, and right now we're in a stage where we're further defining ourselves and getting ready to throw out some designs of a few of the core features we expect to have. Keep in mind that all of these features and designs will be tested against the teachers, parents, students, and administrators at a few schools that have agreed to help us out with this project. We're still in a stage where we're very open to feedback and adjustments in our direction.
For a much shorter description, think blackboard/moodle, only
a. web-based so that individual teachers can sign up and use the site,
b. web 2.0 so that the site looks cleaner and is more intuitive - somewhere people /want/ to go when they're online
c. a different slant (which I've explained above), where we don't try to do everything and anything as blackboard does. We want to start out by doing just a few things, and do them well.
I'd love to have a conversation with you about this if you're still interested in the finer details of the project. More advice is always welcome!
Thanks for the advice, and no, I haven't heard the story of John M. Olin...apparently he's the son of Mr. Franklin Olin who made my college possible :)
samccoy
Dec 3, 2007
Nancy Bosch
We do enjoy KU basketball and for the first time in a long time KU football. I'll miss your friendship!! N
Dec 11, 2007
Nancy Bosch
Dec 11, 2007
Christen Jacobs
Jan 7, 2008
Christen Jacobs
Jan 10, 2008
Ed Jones
Jan 10, 2008
Lynn Marentette
I have some scholarly references somewhere on one of my blogs. It is from 2006 - here is the Mega List of Resources and References
Jan 22, 2008
Lynn Marentette
Jan 22, 2008
Andrew
Feb 11, 2008
Connie Weber
Your comment made my week1 Congratulations--wonderful!!
This is so exciting. I hope you'll make a big post about it when you get the chance, both here and at Fireside.
Having communities for professional learning has made all the difference for me, too--and for so many people I send thanks to Steve for founding this site, and for everyone who reaches out with support and encouragement to their online colleagues.
I love your emphasis on civic culture. It's been a great inspiration. Please share what you are learning and proposing about building sustainable initiatives in education. Thank you for being such a leader in this.
Thank you so much for the good news and for the warmth of your note, which is validating the work we put into caring for each other, caring to know about what's going on, caring to learn what we're all up to in our endeavors to make a difference!
Feb 20, 2008
Millis High School
Sep 24, 2008
Millis High School
http://milliswiki.wikispaces.com/
Sep 24, 2008
Alyshia Olsen
My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win a competition for startup funding on ideablob.com. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com
Dec 28, 2008
Alyshia Olsen
The six of us have been doing a lot of research and user studies-talking to teachers, students, and parents to see where their values lie and what types of software would be most helpful to them. To add to that, we have an engineering bias which has been reinforced by much of the reading we've been doing on technology in education. This results in a very strong belief on our part that students need to have the technology that they use in their daily lives integrated with the learning environment that they are in. Thus, we would be doing two main things. We would incorporate technology into the learning environment by
1. acting as an aggregator that would bring some very useful web tools to the fingertips of students (things like google docs, digg, and wordpress blogging)
2. giving students a different medium (one that they likely already use in their daily lives) to actively (even passively) learn in.
3. giving teachers a simple and intuitive way to integrate this technology into their assignments while keeping everything simple and intuitive
We would also be serving as a platform to increase and enhance communication between teachers, students, and parents. For students, in addition to keeping their schoolwork and study aids/information all in one place online, this would act as a social network in which students, teachers, and parents would be able to communicate. We understand that there are many security concerns with something like this, and we are in the process of addressing exactly how those interactions would need to occur so that security would not be an issue.
We've come up with a lot of ways to do this thus far, and right now we're in a stage where we're further defining ourselves and getting ready to throw out some designs of a few of the core features we expect to have. Keep in mind that all of these features and designs will be tested against the teachers, parents, students, and administrators at a few schools that have agreed to help us out with this project. We're still in a stage where we're very open to feedback and adjustments in our direction.
For a much shorter description, think blackboard/moodle, only
a. web-based so that individual teachers can sign up and use the site,
b. web 2.0 so that the site looks cleaner and is more intuitive - somewhere people /want/ to go when they're online
c. a different slant (which I've explained above), where we don't try to do everything and anything as blackboard does. We want to start out by doing just a few things, and do them well.
I'd love to have a conversation with you about this if you're still interested in the finer details of the project. More advice is always welcome!
Thanks for the advice, and no, I haven't heard the story of John M. Olin...apparently he's the son of Mr. Franklin Olin who made my college possible :)
Alyshia
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com
Dec 29, 2008