Linda Loder

Brookville, KS

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Coordinator of Integrated Technology, Smoky Hill Education Service Center
Blog
http://smokyhilletalk.org
Skype Account
lloutback
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
lloutback onTwitter and Plurk
About Me
I work for the Smoky Hill Education Service Center in Salina, Kansas, which supports seventy-some school districts in north-central and north-western Kansas. I'm mostly just a geek who loves working with students and teachers! I work in area schools and also provide workshops and training sessions on using all the technology tools we can find to improve learning for teachers and students.
The most important part of my day is to learn something new, and I'm so intrigued by the web 2.0 applications I've tried. I've started working with teachers to implement as many of them as I can get them to try! It's an easy sell - a 'try it you'll like it!' phenomenon. What is there NOT to like about web 2.0?

Comment Wall:

  • Kevin H.

    Hi
    It sounds like you have an interesting job, Linda!
    Kevin

    Apr 25, 2007

  • Linda Loder

    I really do! I have the best job in education in Kansas.

    Apr 25, 2007

  • Maxime Viens

    Hi, Linda, thanks for the invitatin and i rally enjoyed reading your blog on Situational Awareness.

    May 3, 2007

  • Tracey Gould

    Nice to meet you! I missed the KSDE conferance in Wichita, I wanted to go, does that count?
    Thanks for the hello!!

    Jun 2, 2007

  • Dennis O'Connor

    Hey Linda! We've got to keep meeting like this! Great to see you in another Ning. I've got a group on Classroom 2.0 as well. The E-learning and Online Teaching group is just getting started. Its a mix of those interested in the topic, with many of my colleagues from UW-Stout, where I coordinate an online teacher training program.

    http://classroom20.ning.com/group/elearning

    I'd love to have you join the mix!

    Dennis

    Oct 3, 2007

  • Joe Sherwood

    I created a wiki in response to all the people who offered to help me on the Interview. If you are still interested please visit the following link: http://schoolgateway.wikispaces.com/

    Thank you.

    Mar 11, 2008

  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi Linda,

    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 29, 2008