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Donelle

Female

Rocklin, CA

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation: K-12 Teacher, Visions in Education Charter School
Blog: http://lifelonglearning20.edublogs.org
Website: http://lifethroughmyeyes-365.blogspot.com/
Skype Account: dobrien917
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: dobrien917
About Me: After growing up in Maui and getting my degree and teaching credential in San Diego; I began my career as an elementary classroom teacher. For the past ten years, I have been working at a charter school in California, serving students in grades K-12. Lifelong learning and innovative teaching are my passion! I love seeing how creativity, technology, and forward-thinking can combine to engage students and help them on the path of lifelong learning.

I am interested in technology tools that facilitate collaboration, communication and creativity.

My other interests are: cooking, travel (especially anywhere near the beach), concerts, NFL, photography, writing, blogging, networking, and Starbucks!

If you want to connect, share ideas, make a friendly football bet, or collaborate on a project, you can find me at:

http://lifelonglearning20.edublogs.org and my Networks: Classroom 2.0, ISTE, CUE, The Future of Education, LearnCentral, Ning in Education, and ISTE.

Creative Commons Photo Attribution: Nate Steiner

Comment Wall:

Jane Krauss

I can talk when you are able. I'm jkrauss1989 on skype.

Oct 31, 2008
Jack

Hi Donelle!

Happy New Year! I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from California!

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

Jan 1, 2009
Alan Tamayose

Hey Donelle,

Unfortunately, we are not having an EdTech conference this year. We hope to have one in 2010.
Aloha.

Feb 22, 2009
Margit

Hi Donelle,

Just home from a great Classroom 2.0 Event in Oahu. Would love to connect with you and work on some ideas for Homeschool 2.0 .

Talk Soon

Margit

Feb 22, 2009
suehellman

HI Donelle -- my 23 things has been on hold for a while. Have simply run out of time, but will resurrect as soon as I have a window. May have to wait until summer unless I can work it into my course work.

I am going with the Wilkes/Discovery online Masters in Instructional Media. There are about 200 people from the US and Canada enrolled (and one from Britain). I have gotten to know a small group of Canadians and others who generally enroll for the same course so we can meet online every week thorugh Elluminate and talk over course ideas and issues and share projects and help each other out. It's like going to a cafe or pub after class once a week. Really helpful and a great way to actually get to know some people working in different places and systems.

If you (or anyone you talk to) decide to ask Wilkes to send you any information, please let them know that Sue Hellman from Canada first let you know about the program. That will be a big help to me. There will be a Facebook page soon and I'll let you know when it's up if you wish.

I'll be blogging about it lots in future as that's part of the process when you talke courses there. My blog is Small Changes; BIG RETURNS. This weekend will just be for Canadian readers but generally that isn't the case. Perhaps you'll even be interested in subscribing.

Sue

Feb 27, 2009
Jane Krauss

Hi Donelle: Thanks for your kind words about Reinventing PBL! I'm sorry I won't be at CUE this year. Boo hoo, such a great meeting in a great part of the country. Have a great time.

Mar 3, 2009
Lynne H

Aloha e Donelle,
I'll ask the head of the pilot program where she got the questions from. We used Survey Monkey to administer the two surveys and the area where teachers scored lowest was in the areas of spreadsheet/database. We have started Excel classes and it is going very well. We will also hold a class in Photoshop and one that teaches how to use those apps in Word for reporting purposes. Our biggest problem was finding a day/time that everyone could meet. I'll be in touch. Aloha.

Mar 21, 2009
Lynne H

We have Atomic Learning. (some call it atomic sleeping) We like that the videos are short and you can track the time people spend on it. It looks like the faculty don't use it on their own but when we reintroduced it in the Excel class the participants flocked to it. We'll likely use it for the photoshop class as well.

I just finished using Elluminate to tutor a former student. It worked great. I also have a colleague that is using it to train her faculty with various apps. Do you use it?

Mar 23, 2009
Tammy Moore

Hi Donelle. I am working on a project that parallels some of what you are doing. We are using Moodle, Elluminate, Ning, VoiceThread, and Cmap at Virtual Home School Group. I would love to get together and compare notes, see if we have resources that might be helpful to each other, and collaborate. I have open office hours T, W, TH from 4:30 to 6pm Central (2:30 to 4pm your time). Just take THIS classroom link.

Mar 26, 2009
suehellman

Sorry to be so slow getting back to you, Donelle. Mine's going to have to wait until summer I'm afraid. I'm now taking an online Masters through Wilkes in Pennsylvania and I'm their new grad assistant so my time is pretty much sewn up. I'm going to rethink it a bit as I have to contribute to their blog and try to keep my own going at the same time. My own has been really neglected lately, so I think I'm going to do a "23 tools" first, with simple how to instructions and links for people who are new to that program and then switch it up to 23 things over the summer.

Apr 13, 2009
Jennifer Kraemer

NIce to meet you today, Donelle! It was so great to hear about your work and the inventive ways that technology is being incorporated into the alternative K-12 educational systems. The conference today helped me to synthesize notions about how technology affects students across the developmental realms. Hope to see you at a conference in the near future!

Apr 25, 2009