Bret Willhoit

Male

Lake In The Hills, IL

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Student Teacher
Blog
http://mrwilhoit.blogspot.com
About Me
I just completed my student teaching! I I am going to teach Business Education on the Secondary level. I also hope to coach. In my free time, I am very active. I love to do anything outdoors, mainly involving running, biking, etc. I used to compete in triathlons and would like to get back into that someday. I was formerly a bank manager for four years so I have a considerable amount of real-world experience in Business/Management/Finance/Marketing. That is why I am becoming a Business Ed teacher. That journey also sparked a tech-geek passion that I was previously unaware of. That passion led me to Classroom 2.0!

Comment Wall:

  • Mike

    congrats on finishing your student teaching! I have had several over the years and enjoyed all of them! Good luck in the future with your degree/career/et cetera!

    Dec 3, 2008

  • Mike

    good to hear from you. I have to say 'nice hat' too! LOL and the wind sock rocks as well! haha Happy Holidays and New Year to you! Friday's just a day a way and vacation is but a fortnight from then, but who's counting, right?

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Mike

    have you also noticed that the dates are off by a year? LOL I'm a History teacher so I notice those things immediately! Haha

    Dec 4, 2008

  • Jack

    Hi Bret! Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get Illinois students involved. Please let me know. Thanks!

    Dec 25, 2008

  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi Bret,

    I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) 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 have taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' 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 an idea competition 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 27, 2008