Scott Besterman

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Bancroft Elementary
Blog
http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=111863
Website
http://www.aps1.net/ban
Skype Account
Bosox04
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
Bosox04
About Me
17 Year Elementary Ed Teacher. Five years with 5th grade, 11 as the school's Instructional Technology Specialist (ITS) and now getting ready for my 2nd year in Gr3. A great school in a great community.

Comment Wall:

  • Adina Sullivan

    Welcome to Classroom 2.0 Scott. and thanks for the comment on the blog. It's amazing how much there is to learn. I think that will always be the case in this field. You never know all you need and want to know.

    Jul 30, 2007

  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi Scott,

    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 has 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