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Peter Lane

Male

Fair Oaks, CA

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation: W. E. Mitchell Middle School
Blog: http://mrlane.edublogs.org
Website: http://mmsreading.edublogs.org
Favored IM Account: mrpslane@gmail.com
Skype Account: mrlane13
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: mrlane
About Me: Every time I review my "About Me" entry I end up with a grin on my face... Due to budget cuts I cannot keep up with what I will be teaching as each year it is slated to be elimated. Electives have, once again, been cut for the upcoming year. So I think I will revise this entry to simply say that I am a TEACHER of STUDENTS who loves to work with those who are struggling in the area of reading. Additionally, I love using blogs, wikis and whatever technology appears at my doorstep next to engage whichever student walks through the door of my classrooms (yes, plural, I get two classrooms).

Comment Wall:

Kendra Paupst

Hi Peter! It's true, my ning site is in French! :)
I would enjoy hearing how you've used a blog with your students-am looking for some inspiration!
best,
kendra

Feb 9, 2009
Toni Twiss

Hi - thanks for visiting my page!

I have belonged to a couple of Nings for a while but belonged to so many different social networks I didn't do any of them properly. Have decided that Ning will be my thing I will focus on!

ICT PD (the PD stands for Professional Development) is an initiative from the New Zealand government to get schools integrating ICT effectively in to classes. Schools form clusters with other nearby schools and apply for funding to support specific goals to do with ICT - ie. maybe developing a school-wide LMS/VLE etc. Each cluster is funded for three years and most employ a professional development facilitator to work with the cluster - which is what I do!

Last year I spent the year researching the potential for mobile phone use in classrooms - particularly looking at supporting information literacy skills - my findings are on my blog if you are interested!

Feb 16, 2009
Toni Twiss

Hi sorry for bombarding you with TLAs :) (three letter acronyms)

ICT - Information Communication Technology
ICT PD - Information Communication Technology (in schools) Professional Development

LMS - Learning Management System - we use Moodle

Glad you have got your student in the right place! It is reasonably uncommon to have students from NZ who don't speak English. All do unless they are very recent migrants.

Feb 16, 2009
Wayne Lawson

Peter,
I had a question about your blog. Do students access it by creating their own accounts and what service do you use?
Thanks,

Mar 6, 2009
gwyneth jones

cheers! "also" implies there was something said previously...if so, i've missed it! eep! ...as it is...the photo's i posted were from my Second Life...all pixels and such...my profile pic i photoshopped within an inch of its life...the pics on my electronic portfolio i played with comic life...
did i get even a wee bit close answering your question? [grins]
~gwyneth

Apr 1, 2009
gwyneth jones

Oh! i didn't think to look back over my old comments! this is what i get for dipping in and skimming...but thanks! i've found you can use the combination of comic life & iphoto do most of anything that photoshop can do and more! (for the ave teacher, wiki, or blog!) i may even have to do a wikipage tutorial on this cause it could save a lot of peeps big bucks! cheers again!
~gwyneth

Apr 1, 2009
Linnell Gribble

Thanks for the kind welcome. After reading your page it looks like I can learn a lot here. I will just need time to figure out how to navigate it all and create my page. Sounds like our situations are very similar. They are looking at technology language arts for me next year. Would love to see what you do in your tech class. I have a semester course where all the work is posted on pbWiki.com. I am trying to get the grading simpiflied

Apr 6, 2009
Linnell Gribble

Your work is amazing. I am very impressed. Right now I am using pbwiki, but it looks like your wiki is through classroom 2.o. how do you get started?

Apr 6, 2009
Jennifer Koch Lubke

Hi, from East Tennessee. I'm looking forward to seeing and exploring some of your work.

Apr 13, 2009
tmalloff

Thanks! Nice school website; you've put a lot of work into it.

Apr 15, 2009
Jennifer Koch Lubke

I am not in the classroom right now but am working with pre- and inservice teachers in areas of professional development and technology. I love your statement about "getting it all," so I wrote about it in my blog. Thanks for the inspiration!

Apr 16, 2009