Here I am! Thanks for inviting me. Have you seen VoiceThread yet?

Thanks so much for inviting me. I second Barb's comment. VoiceThread is great.

Hi Mike! Are you going to NETA? Alice, Roberta and I are all going from SMM. It's hard to pick what sessions to go to based on a title, but I'm sure I'll learn a lot.

That's okay, Mike. I really appreciate your help.

You are welcome. It started because of frustration at school seeing the haves and have nots of technology. And in our school, the haves hardly know how to use powerpoint...

Dear Mike, you don't need to speak and to write Portuguese. I can understand you on English language.

Warm Regards from Brasil,

:)

Hi Mike, thanks for the friend invite. If you're ever in Hong Kong...

MIke,
Sorry to have gotten so involved with your white board post. This is also a hot discussion in out district. Then again, thanks for bringing the topic to the table. In these economic times we really need to think things out.
A

Thanks. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you very much, Mike. I'll look into all your suggestions.

Brilliant edublog, Mike! I love the use of Voicethread, too. Much of what you do can help my students a great deal. Your students must appreciate what you do for them.

(I'm just "up the street" in Sioux Falls, SD; love the Henry Doorly Zoo there and have a brother who manages a Hy-Vee in Omaha.)

Check this out, Mike: http://suptfelix.blogspot.com/2007/12/study-on-blogging-educators-is-complete.html.

Of course, 21st century skills are being developed, but what I find, fundamentally, is that blogs help students care, which is a big percentage of the "battle."

Hi Mike,
I have ben a classroom 2.0 member for a while now but couldn't find out how you can change the standard theme into an individual theme like yours for example.... could you please help me out on that?
Thanks a lot
Sigi

funny enough.. just discovered that we are using the same theme in wordpress.... what a coincidence.. here is mine: http://www.school-networking.de

Thanks a lot Mike- I must have been blind ot to see.this button.... I've put your blogin my blogroll :-) Take care

Hello Mike
Was just enjoying reading your blog - Realizing Your Personal Legend - and was wondering if you would be interested in adding your blog details to the Edubloggers Directory at http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com?
Another place to share!
Patricia

Hi, Mike. I see that you've done some posting on running Google Apps under a school domain, and I thought I'd ask you a quick question. Do you know of any way to screen the available widgets to add to an iGoogle page? (There are some pretty objectionable ones we'd rather not have show up on a school page.)

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can lend.

Thanks for the input. I did find how to turn off certain widgets so I think we'll try that.

Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin students (near Boston) who is taking a year off to pursue our interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, bringing us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school", and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested. Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. 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. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.

Our team 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. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.

Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!

Thanks,
Andy Pethan
rockychat3@gmail.com

Hi Mike. I was wondering if you have any colleagues and students who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

That'd be fantastic, Mike! Thank you!