I agree-to much to do so little time- Have you been to read write and think? Those things would well with the literature. Biography maker,poem maker tool, web ect.

I like Scatch much better than squeak anf if you are doing some Alice and some Scratch you are way ahead of the game.

Since I teach in the computer lab-I have a scope which I following programmin-> Logo->tesselations->Squeak->scratch-Alice-HTML & Flash
11/2 Logo 3 Tesselations 4&5 Squeak, 6th Scratch 7th Alice 8th HTML and Flash
I use the classroom teachers content and my computer skills.

I do so enjoy you comments-

Greetings from Indiana. I was your student in the 80s! I don't expect you to remember me, but here's a little context in case it helps. My maiden name was Julia Dolken and I had you in first grade, when I used to wear a ton of pink. I was the only little first grader in my class and came for two half days a week from Mill Creek Elementary. This must have been in 1987. I am in the middle of a staff development day at school and we're learning how to use this in a workshop. I just happened to click on one of your discussions and was so surprised to see your name! Well, I ended up in education also and am teaching middle school choir and directing community children's choirs. Fun to see that you're still teaching and hope you are doing well. You were an inspiring teacher and I'm sure I still have some of your fun cartoons around somewhere. :-) Best wishes!

Nancy,

This is so cool. Having one of your old students find you on this social network site!!!

I think it's a story worth telling.

looks like we have a lot of interests in common...:-)

Great weather in June. What is he going to present and where?

Nancy, I just referenced your wonderful blog in a clrm 2.0 discussion-- I hope you can help me find the perfect blog platform

Hey Nancy

Do you know of a good framework for a needs assessment? Thanks
Jim

I've been working as a PK-12 math and science coordinator for my district for the past year and a half. Our GT coordinator retired in Jan. so her responsibilities have recently fallen into my lap (which is fine since most of my classroom teaching experience was as a GT teacher). I'd love to hear what type of programs/frameworks other districts are using to serve their GT students.

Your website is awesome! I'm currently conducting an online book study over Differentiation: Simplified, Realistic, and Effective by Bertie Kingore with several of our GT teachers using a Wiki and would like to include your link on our site http://silsbeegt.wikispaces.com/. Delete Comment

Thank you for joining the discussion between Indigo and myself. It is interesting to explore the notion of why we are using technology, not just readily excepting it.

I think exploring why we are doing something is as important as exploring ways to do it. Thanks for the continual input.

Great input on the "...too far too fast?" question.

Hi! Oh! My Gosh! Those Jayhawks were awesome. Having said that I am a graduate of KSU=} Is your district math series Everyday Math? My district as adopted this series and we are to get interactive whiteboards for next year. I would like to get a head start on learning about the interactive whiteboard. thanks

My reply to your response regarding my iboard post had an unintended negative tone. Sorry about that, mostly I'm just curious to see if I'm missing something about the iboards.

Nancy I found this site in the UK it deals with gifted kids so I thought you might want a look http://www.thedlc.org/courses_pri.shtml#amazinganimated
I found it off the fluxtime animation site where the kids make cartoons.

I hear you! I have worked an entire year now without a contract-While the administration all got raises. No contract and they actually want us to take a pay cut and ass 6 1/2 hours to the in site work week so we can offer free after school childcare.

As a new GT coordinator for the district, I'm beginning to think every parent thinks their child is gifted! I'm up to my neck in GT referrals right now. How do you get parents (and teachers) to understand the difference between high achievers and truly gifted learners?

I read a comment from you about your co-teacher setting up some gmail accounts for your kids. Just wondered if you did anything special. Are there any special monitoring controls? I teach 7th grade English and want to use google docs in my literature circles. Trying to find the easiest way to do this.
thanks
courtney

NAncy
I am interested in the materials you have from your differentiated instruction workshop.

Thanks!

Hi Nancy,
My 8th graders---ugg- Have been sneaking their cell phones in class and using the mosquito ring that adults can't hear! Gee I had tech used against me...Now I have to figure out a way around this one. Any ideas

Hi Nancy,
Wondering, when you set up your student blog site, did you have to enter individual email addresses for each and if so, how did you do that?

Hi Nancy,
It's new school year! I celebrated my 50th birthday and and still teaching! I loved the examples you found on glogster-but they seemed more foer high school=where did you find the primary stuff?

I had my middle schoolers make Cyber safe Vid's If you want a good laugh check them out at http://tektimes.pbwiki.com/8th-Grade They are preety short. They used talkingpets.org Meez and stardoll. We captured with Cam Studio-and because I can't get the audio feature to work on Cam studio they imported into Win MOVIE MAKER TO DO THE VOICE OVER.

Please check out this member: "roseline" http://www.classroom20.com/xn/detail/u_19g1s6oxbyc2x

She sent me an a vaguely inappropriate message, which is repeated on her home page. Thank You, MCJazzer

Nancy,
I just joined, but am highly offended by the live chat showing up in the right column. I wouldn't have thought I would find that sort of conversation here. What kinds of controls do you exercise over the Live Chat? WIll it always appear on my screen when I log in?

Joanne

Nancy I left a reply to ERIC S post just today
somethjing like what next stop Korea
HE REPLIED with ?
I then left on his page today
"just got fired from my job
its not a great one - sorry THE comment "


basically -my post ( as above) is now deleted
BUT his reply ? remains
thanks
James

hope that clears things up!

Hey Nancy- thanks for the kind words about the Ning site. I was excited to see you are actually so close geographically. It's just... that sadly that doesn't happen much here.

Sean

I hear you, Nancy. Really, I do. The last post on my blog addressed the fact that these issues need to be delivered from the top as well as grassroots. I go back and forth between that. At times, I just think the "throw resources at those ready to run" -approach is the best.

I saw both sides of this again recently in the "Britannica Debate." Will Richardson took the "run with those ready" approach here.

Then another person I respect, Ryan Bretag, took issue in this post where he advocated a more comprehensive approach that doesn't let anyone out of the loop.

I am still shaping how I feel on this one... but what i do know is that my experience is secondary. I wish wish wish I had someone who could be as strong of an advocate from the elementary level as well.

You are so close... how would a visit from a few folks and I sometime?

Sean

Hi Nancy,
I an new to this web 2.0 stuff and feel completely lost, I hate to admit. Can you give me advice on where to start. I feel I have found a wonderful resource and want to benefit from it as much a possible. I have joined several groups, but don't know where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated!

Nancy thanks for the work here!!
Best wishes
James

Hi Nancy

My name is Marco Morales; 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. I've until recently only been active on the education.ning.com website. For the project I'm working on talking to teachers who strive to integrate technology into the classroom is always interesting, since most of the teachers we have actually sat down and talked to tend to be teachers who aren't as active in terms of new tools and how to use them in the classroom. 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, 2008, 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 many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start. We also have more written in the comments/advise section on the ideablob website.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com

Thanks for getting back to me Nancy. It's interesting that you mentioned drupal because I just got their book about using drupal in education. I have installed and configured two wordpress blogs, so I'm not adverse to the idea of doing it myself . . . it's just finding the time!

Hello Nancy,
I wondered how I find the discussion repeat of today's Elluminate Live meeting?
Thank you, Deb

Happy New Year Nancy!
Let me tell you a bit about me. I am from Argentina, where I have carried out some research that showed a very small percent of secondary school teachers make actual use of the Internet in for their practices. I will be giving a talk next february to share ideas and resources with many colleagues who do not even know about web 2.0. I participate of classroom 2.0 but would like to start my own network so as to show my colleagues here what one can do whith sites like NIng(and also as a personal challenge!) If you could please join me at
http://teach-with-internet.ning.com/

and probably invite some of your colleagues, too. It would be very helful to start making the network grow!
Thanks a lot.
Paula

Hey there Nancy! You have an amazing website! Keep up the great work!

Thank you for the environmental club contact. I will email to find out how they put it together.

Great resource for primary sources Nancy, thanks very much for sharing.

Might want to add a link to History Uncut.

John

Thanks Nancy, I;m checking it out right now!

Thanks Nancy. Would you be willing to have a virtual Flat Stanley visit your classroom? ALl you would have to do is answer the following questions and email the responses back to me at kirish43@hotmail.com. Then I would post your resonse on My classes Flat Stanley Winki page. Here are the questions:
Dear Mrs. Bosch,
We are trapped here in Michigan-so we decided to let Stanley take some virtual field trips so we can learn more about different schools and different places. Can Stanley visit and tell us abnout your school?
!. What is the name of your school?
2. How many students attend and in what grades
3. Where is your school located?
4. What is your climate and weather like.
5. What fun places will Stanley visit where you live?
Thanks the St. Anthony's kids

I almost forgot. Here is the name of the Wiki page so your kids can watch Stanley travel too.
http://sapflatstanley.pbwiki.com/

Hi Nancy,
I was wondering if you have any sites or resources you know of to use with gifted students in 4th grade for geometry extentions. I am mainly looking for hands-on activities or web resources. My 4th graders are at the 6th and 7th grade level.
Thanks,
Tanya

I was looking for an activity exactly like the one you described where students build solid figures. Next month we will be doing Algebra so I would appreciate any resources you have. Thanks for your help.

Tanya

Hi Nancy,
You mentioned the Kindle on my blog. Do you have one, and if so, what do you think of it?

Nancy, I am having trouble with getting some of the videos to play.

The one in particular (but not the only one) will act as if it is loading but never comes up to play is Steve Hargadon's The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version). I can't tell what the movie formats are to see if I am missing a codec.

If you need other videos that won't play for me or will play for me on the site, let me know.

Thanks in advance for your help. I am preparing a presentation for the Texas state conference for computer educators on Classroom 2.0 so would also like to ask you for some particularly good examples of forums, blogs, member profiles, photos, videos to hightlight in my 45-minute talk.

Thanks in advance, Gayla

Our district blocks YouTube. I assumed from the URL that the video was stored on Classroom, but it may point to YouTube.

I'll look at the source code of that video and others that I am unable to view at work.

Thanks for your response.

Hi Nancy. I was wondering if your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. Perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

Cool thanks, Nancy. Your help is very appreciated

Nancy,

I attended the "tags" elluminate session today, but, my computer froze and I didn't get the info about where to find the recorded show and links.

I hope you can help me!

Mary Lewis

Nancy, Can you tell me where I can find the saved Webinars that are done on Saturdays?

Hey Nancy, I just posted some new student essays...

"Standing Outside the Fire"

John

Hi Nancy, I've enjoyed commenting back and forth with you on the blog post about the PD. You seem like a great communicator--I have a question,..being fairly new here...(and loving it already.) What happens when someone becomes a "colleague" Is it like a "friend" on facebook? For example, if you were my "colleague" would I get updates on your posts? Thanks!