Greetings Matt and welcome to Classroom 2.0!
Hans

Hey, Matt, welcome aboard! I'm not too far from you; just over in New Berlin, teaching English and trying to be a tech advocate in a variety of ways.

Hi Matt,
I'm presenting at a state conference and will navigate around 2.0 to get ideas. I was going to leave a post on your blog (gave you another dot on your clustr map) but I forget my Google log on--our district goes w/ Edublogs [Edublogs just asks for your email and you don't have to have a Google login]. I enjoyed reading your posts.

Re: Skype: I have two children in college, and thus my wife and I are at the $9.95 @ month for dial-up, along with some of the meanest and 'baddest' baked potatoes anywhere! Why, even the tuna noodle casserole is now gourmet! Thanks for your willingness to assist--sometimes it's hard to imagine that I'm still not in the classroom teaching, but am instead presenting workshops!

Hi Matt, thanks for the add. I don't recall if we met or not the day I visited Hai Yun (I met a lot of teachers that day), but I am really impressed by the campus and school overall. Looking forward to seeing you some time.

Saw your comment on Clay's site and I have added you to Twitter. I look forward to hearing more form you.

Hey Matt, I was part of your Alverno preservice teacher presentation. Just wanted to thank you for opening our eyes to an entire world of possibilities. I have already tried a lot of the technologies that you presented that day. I'm even beginning to introduce them to my schoolaged daycare classroom.

Hi Matt, thank you also for all of the cool technology stuff that you showed us. Also thank you for your help with twitter and skype for our inservice.

Hey Matt what is up. I got a new job in Champaign- GO ILLINI
But as luck would have it, They don't need me anymore. I was originally teaching chemistry, but they had some complaints that I wasn't teaching it to the AP or college prep level (which I wasn never informed about originally). Oh well I will just move on somewhere else. Maybe somewhere I can make more money and finally find me a woman. I changed my cell # too- 217 766 8481 I really need to come see you this summer at least. Hopefully that would work out. see you dude. Hey I like the goatee. You look older than me . See you Chris Early

Matt
Are you interested in a collaborative project.
I responded to your dgi skill comment and then read it was Nov 2007 - I'm in Australia and I'd ove to send something to your classes
Jo

Matt
Read lots of comments avbout your good resources about web 2.0 in classroom
Can you tell me where I can read posts - Is it twitter / edublogs
Can I get links - Ta

Matt, how does your school get around blocking of ning? Our IT man said if he unblock ning it will unblock facebook and my space. Our school doesn't want them unblocked. Brad Haas

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 Matt. I was wondering if you and your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

Hey Matt. Thanks for the advice and the support. I was just looking into some of the other teachers' concerns, and I didn't have a good answer other than, "I feel like kids will know better." Look forward to seeing your kids' videos :]