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Steve Wilmarth

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Westbrook

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation: New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.
Blog: http://www.nscgroup.org/profiles/blog/list?user=swilmarth
Website: http://www.nscgroup.org
Favored IM Account: Google chat
Skype Account: swilmarth
About Me: I'm managing director of New School Student Ambassadors, Inc., a community supported non-profit organization that develops and manages educational and cultural exchange programs between private independent and public secondary, community college, and higher ed schools, colleges and universities in the US and students in private and public learning centers in northwest China (Ningxia, western Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang provinces and regions). This area of China is well known to me. I serve as a visiting lecturer at Ningxia Polytechnic and TV University in Yinchuan, Ningxia, PRC, and I've created a network of joint venture partnerships with private English language learning centers in the region. Northwest China is culturally, economically and politically sensitive with large minority populations (Muslim, Tibetan Buddhist, Mongolian, Uyghurs, etc.) who have yet to feel the full impact and benefits of modernization and globalization, and whose educational and cultural exchange opportunities are limited by virtue of location and distance from the highly developed and prospering regions of eastern China. Through the programs offered by New School Student Ambassadors, Inc., we plan to help US and Chinese students learn more about each other and their cultures, and create educational opportunities that will serve the future interests of both regions.

Comment Wall:

Tom Kennedy

Hey Steve. I enjoyed two of your presentations at CECA last fall and plan to attend the Open Source Solutions Fair at Education Connection in May. Look forward to meeting you then.

Mar 31, 2007
Steve Wilmarth

Hi Tom,

Nice to see you here in Classroom 2.0. I look forward to seeing you again soon, and catching up on the state of education in Connecticut.

Apr 2, 2007
Hans Feldmeier

Hi Steve, you are doing a lot of interesting jobs. Hope to team up in education.
Greetings from Bavaria/Germany
Hans

Apr 9, 2007
Steve Wilmarth

Thanks, Hans. I'm headed to China in 5 weeks to speak at Ningxia University, and recruit some students to work in one of our projects. Too bad I can't touch down in Germany, but maybe we can work out an opportunity to collaborate on a project together. Do you have contact with any students or a secondary school that we might connect with?

Steve

Apr 9, 2007
Ginger Lewman

Thanks for talking with us today. Marcia and I will be sending an email to you with our info soon! We're both very excited to be participating!

Jun 22, 2007
Hans Feldmeier

Hi Steve, yes we can talk. Tomorrow I will let you know when. My Sypename is hansfeldmeier.
Bye

Jun 23, 2007
Hans Feldmeier

Hi Steve, what about Monday (25th) at 3pm or 8pm or Tuesday (5pm or 8pm)?
Let me know please.

Jun 24, 2007
Hans Feldmeier

Hello Steve, firstly my school is a Secondary School and I agree with your query as to participating in a common project starting next year. I´ve got some students working on blogs, podcasting, wikis, screencasting ...
But let me know more about the project in detail please.
You could get in touch with me also - maybe it´s difficult with Skype because of different hours to meet: hans.feldmeier@gmx.de
Cheers
Hans

Jun 25, 2007
Hans Feldmeier

Hi Steve, okay! I will let you know when.
Greetings
Hans

Jun 26, 2007
Hans Feldmeier

Hello Steve, it seems that it is difficult it get in touch. Thus I propose you send me your info via email first.
Cheers
Hans

Jul 3, 2007
Mark Bethune

Hi Steve. I am currently in a workshop with Heidi Jacobs and she has suggested that I make contact with you. If you read my profile, you will see where my interest lies and I believe that Heidi thinks that you can help me.

Jul 4, 2007
dave garland

Hi Steve
Good to talk just now and am excited at the prospect of this type of international collaborative work.

There was a time in the UK when one went to a conference to find out about the latest methods and new ideas.

I think we are at paradigm shift.. we are the conference and it's 24/7 ! If live cast was built into this site (maybe it is) that would add another dimension. That's one of the things that rafi.ki has which is v.useful
Interested to hear more about the virtual world..
dave

Jul 5, 2007
Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Steve. Please get in touch regarding your promising chapter for the new ASCD book on 21st century curriculum. Trying to locate you ..and, knowing, that you likely are in China near the Mongolian border doing your great work..can be a bit daunting. Give me a direct email asap. THANKS. I am certain that whatever you are doing right now..it is exquisitely interesting.

Jun 18, 2008
Heidi Hayes Jacobs

I was not aware of your appointment and am not surprised. You have carved out your own path, Steve. You have been relentless in your quest. I cannot wait for the next batch of pictures and clips from China. And..the July date will work out fine for your chapter. I will let Scott Willis at ASCD know. Tim Tyson's chapter is fantastic. Frank Baker's on media literacy is clear and direct and strong. I love how this is coming together. I am going to make the 2010 CMI conference a total focus on the new essential curriculum and want to feature you there..I will have Kathy get you the dates. I will likely run something in 09 at Columbia TC..and will work with you on that as well. Thanks for getting back to me and I will check out your recommended sites. hhj

Jun 18, 2008
Don How

Hi Steve. Expect to meet my wife and I living in the same faculty apartment building. I hope we can work together and I can learn from you. I have a French as a Second Language, English as a Second Language, elementary and high school Science background. Our expected arrival date is September 21.

Aug 24, 2008
Ron Gwiazda

Hi Steve,

Thank you for the invitation to join you. I've been so busy lately that I haven't been very active in Classroom 2.0. It's good to be pulled back in.

After an extended career in the Boston School System, I started a software company to develop a web-based, collaborative authoring environment that would allow teachers and students to create web content in a drag & drop environment. It has been an exciting new direction to take - and the cause of my being so busy.

One of our users, David Lewalski, may be of interest to you. He teaches EFL to foreign students who want to attend US colleges, and one of his approaches is to have his students create a growing website that engages them in all kinds of skills development. It also connects what they are doing to thir families at home. He's featured in our website with a link to his site. His comments and project link are at:

http://www.trintuition.com/tr/index.php?m=55&uid=0

He might be an interesting contact for you. We're also always looking for new ideas to model uses of our workBench software. Let me know if I can be of any help to you as well.

Aug 31, 2008
Mike Romard

Hey Steve,
Thanks for the invite. Worthy goal too. I just finished reading "Three Cups of Tea" so I'm feeling especially yearning to help. Let me know how I can be of service. I currently live in Shanghai and have been active in slowly expanding my social network and finding ways my own students can reach out globally. Kind regards. Mike

Oct 29, 2008
Mark Cruthers

Hi Steve,

If you're interested to get a bit more online synchronously with your students and China I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom. I also recommend you take a look at authorstream's power point presentation platform, it could prove useful if students want to put a power point on the web for their Chinese counter parts to view. Anyhow, both are web based, have a bunch of features and free basic service.

Dec 19, 2008
Danny Mydlack

Hi Steve,

Reading your quotes on the School 2.0 Wiki I wanted to hear your response to the video "Voices from the New American Schoolhouse." Sudbury schools seem to have years ago fulfilled many of the ambitions that technology is now awakening in conventional educators.

Dec 23, 2008
IndyEduktr

Steve,

What type of assistance would you provide schools who want to develop exchanges of students and teachers with China. We currently teach Mandarin in our schools (K-12), and, right now, we have three visiting teachers from China. We'd like to begin exchanges by this summer if possible. Do you have any thoughts? I am interested in the New School Student Ambassadors, Inc.

I am also on Classroom Web 2.0 as IndyEduktr.

Jan 19, 2009
Jack

Hi Steve. I was wondering if you have students or educator friends 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!

Jan 31, 2009