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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

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Dipali Buch

It was a pleasure to meet you and learn how you help K-12 students with special teaching style. Keep in touch.

Apr 26, 2009
Dipali Buch

Thanks for the link, I do not have my summer schedule right now so will have to wait on that :-)

Apr 28, 2009
Steve O'Connor

Yes, they can comment. I use mediawiki and there is a "talk" tab for each page. That being said, commenting is not the strongest point of wikis.

Apr 29, 2009
Steve O'Connor

I think Blogs are better suited for discussion. In addition, there are a couple of extensions that can make WordPress function somewhat like a wiki. If you really are interested in in comments, there is a WordPress extension called commentpress that is in beta, but I think will be available very soon. I am helping with the testing.

Apr 30, 2009
Steve O'Connor

I use WordPress for myself and WordPRessMu for school. I am not a fan of "free" hosted services such as edublogs that attach ads and mine for personal information. I run my own rented server now, but I started with an inexpensive shared server account-- $5-10/mo and worth every penny as you can install all kinds of free software: blogs, wikis, and much more.

CommentPress is incredible and I look forward to deployment of the new version very soon. Iactually allows individuals to comment on individual paragraphs rather than the entire work at the end of the post.

If you would like to go this way, let me know and I can assist. I could even let you use a bit of server space temporarily. It is astonishingly easy to do.

Apr 30, 2009
Rushton Hurley

Hi Donelle,

The last newsletter had the subject line "photography videos, text-to-speech, and a careers grant" and went out about three weeks ago, I believe. I'll try resending it, and feel free to send a second address if something odd is going on with your gmail account. I'm at rh(at)nextvista(dot).org.

Apr 30, 2009
grace esteban

Thanks Donelle for the link.

Apr 30, 2009
Shea Smith

Hi Donelle. Sorry to hear we missed another great presentation. Seems as if there is never enough time in the day! If you hear of any upcoming events, please let me know. I would love to meet soon to share ideas, and I would really like to know more about your work with the Ning in the classroom.

May 1, 2009
Andrew Marcinek

Yes, he is my brother. He lives in Boston and has done some amazing work and seems to get better every year! Glad you could connect!

May 1, 2009
Andrew Marcinek

I'm all signed up! Thanks for the link!

May 1, 2009
Rushton Hurley

I did just now - thanks!
Rushton

May 2, 2009
sayda postiglione

yes, I am interested in a follow-up meeting!!

May 4, 2009
Mike Lawrence

Donelle - thanks for asking about CUEtoYOU workshops. All events are posted online at cue.org/cuetoyou by clicking the 'register' button. Or take the direct link here: https://cueweb.cue.org/cueweb/PDW/PDWwebstore.aspx

Hope you can attend one (or more)!

May 6, 2009
grace esteban

Hi Donelle!

Sorry for the late reply. I will really appreciate if I can join you through Elluminate. If you are talking about the Summer Faculty Development, yes I am part of the planning team but if you're referring to the ISPI, no I am not.

Talk to you soon!

May 7, 2009
Greg Limperis

Hi Donelle. Thanks for joining. I look forward to you visiting and contributing to our site often. Let me know if you need anything.

May 10, 2009
Gail Desler

Heading in there right now, Donelle. Thanks for the reminder.

May 13, 2009
Anne Mirtschin

Hi Donelle and welcome to classroom2.0 I love your passions and goals as they are mine as well.

May 16, 2009
Greg Limperis

The Meeting time is EST

May 17, 2009
R. Scott Young

Ask away!
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Wow! I love your site. Can I ask you a few questions about it? If so, please leave a comment on my wall w/ contact info. or a message for my inbox.

May 17, 2009
Shea Smith

Your CR20 page and your blog look great, Donelle. You have been busy. Guess those Starbucks Iced Americanos have helped! Here's a question I forgot to ask the other day: what do you find to be most challenging - most difficult - about writing?

May 17, 2009
Greg Limperis

Donelle, You did not miss it. I think the origional time posting was wrong. The meeting is tonight at 9:30 EST. You can still join if you wish.

Greg

May 17, 2009
Denise Jeanne Foures-Aalbu

Hi Donelle!

I am in Merced helping my daughter today. Will you be going to NECC? I will be going via Boston - to visit family. My email is denisefoures@yahoo.com and my cell is 916-832-9151. We could talk tomorrow if you have some free time in the afternoon? I did attend the SAC Classroom 2.0 in April.

Please feel free to call me on my cell tomorrow p.m. or during the weekend.
Regards,
Denise

May 21, 2009
grace esteban

Thanks Donelle

May 21, 2009
Blanca Schmit

Hello Donelle,

Thank you for your emails and for keeping in touch with me. It have been very so busy!!1 It was final's week and I am still alive!!! I finished correcting 50 + papers and posted all the grades. What a great feeling!!
I will now do the application and contact you so I can hand it over to you like we discussed.
See you soon
Blanca (SchmiT0

May 22, 2009
Denise Jeanne Foures-Aalbu

Bonjour Donelle,

Sorry that I could not get back to you on Friday. I needed to help my daughter to move and it took longer than anticipated. Will you be attending NECC in D.C.? We should chat this week but set up a time. Thursday and Friday are not good for me. Let me know what works for you.

Denise

May 25, 2009
Tammy Moore

Hi Donelle,

I just realized this morning that my Outlook contact card for you didn't have an e-mail address,so you have not been getting the mailings that I have been sending out. I am glad I noticed it this morning.

Our Moodle Training starts up tonight at 7pm Central and will run on T and TH. We will have Elluminate training on Wednesdays at 7pm Central. Both classes run until the July 4th holidays. Send me an e-mail so that I can get you e-mail addy. I will send you the link to our Elluminate classroom for the training and the link to our Moodle for Teacher's course page. My e-mail is armoorefam@centurytel.net

May 26, 2009
Dr. Nellie Deutsch

Yes, we are developing a Moodle workshop on Wikieducator.

May 28, 2009
Denise Jeanne Foures-Aalbu

Hi Donelle,
I will be going to NECC in D.C. via Boston (visiting family). I am not on Twitter and do not use chat. I will be busy until my return to SAC on June 30th. If there is a follow-up for the SAC group of Classroom 2.0 I would like to come. Let me know if and when - the LRC at Sac City is a great place to meet.
Stay in touch, Denise

May 29, 2009
Jennifer Kraemer

Okay, I'm in! :)

May 29, 2009
Denise Jeanne Foures-Aalbu

Hi Donelle,

See my May 21st message to you and feel free to contact me when you can.
I am headed to Boston soon and will see you at NECC if you make it. Hang in there! See you in SAC if not at the next Meetup.
Regards,
Denise

Jun 1, 2009
Kimberly Munoz

No we don't, but that sounds interesting and I think some of our kids would like it. Right now just looking for 2.0 tools to help with our 1:1 integration with students and teachers. So I will def. be taking you up on your offer to ask for help! ;0) Online learning was an area that teachers felt they didn't have much access to for prof. development. As a tech teacher just trying to help out. Also going to a moodle training soon so I know that will be another tool. I've used it before with my classes, but very limited so never gave it the chance I'm about to. It seems Elluminate is pretty big....is that costly...do you know? Anyways, thanks for the add and looking forward to collaborating!

Jun 2, 2009
Kimberly Munoz

Our district is offering the moodle training this summer as a workshop. Thanks for the tip on elluminate! I will try that and it would be cool to attend a workshop with you virtually. ;0)

Jun 3, 2009
Gail Mitchell

Hi Donelle,
I will add you to my skype and then watch for when you are online.
Chat soon
Regards
Gail

Jun 6, 2009
Kimberly Munoz

You're awesome! Thursday or Friday would be good for me as well. Just let me know when! Looking forward to it!
Kim

Jun 6, 2009
Eric Jarvis

I'm not going to be able to make it to NECC in DC. Will you be presenting at CUE next year?

Jun 9, 2009
Eric Jarvis

I recommend presenting at CUE. They are accepting proposals for concurrent sessions through Sept. 11th.

Here's a link to their request for speakers:

http://www.cue.org/conference/present

I want more time to see what others are doing, so I passed on submitting a three-hour workshop. That deadline passed last week, I believe.

Jun 10, 2009
Christina McKinnis

It's a very old picture but it helps me deceive my current look...

Jun 15, 2009
Kimberly Munoz

Hey Donelle,
I saw you mentioned on twitter that we were set up for Thursday to do an elluminate training, but wasn't sure of the details. I checked learn central to see if something was posted but couldn't find anything. Could you tell me what time it starts? Don't want to miss it. ;0) Hope your having a great day!
Kim

Jun 15, 2009
Kimberly Munoz

Ugh! Totally forgot about that meeting. Dang it. It sounds like we're going to have a better chance signing up for one on that sight where the trainings are posted for anyone to attend. I'm going to be tied up Tues and Wed with curriculum writing and then all next week with subbing summer school and a moodle training for 2 days. The week after that.....vacation. But while I'm working I'll still be checkin in here and everywhere else. ;0) NECC is going to be awesome.....wish I was going with ya, but maybe next year. I'm gonna work on it!

Jun 16, 2009
Kimberly Munoz

Would LOVE to hear from you while your at NECC! ;0) So fun! The TCEA conf in Austin, Tx is the one I go to and it's usually the first week of Feb. Check it out http://www.tcea.org/convention/2010/Documents/index.html not sure how much info they have up yet for 2010. Hoping to present there this year, but won't know until Sept. You have a fabulous Tuesday girl! Glad to be communicating with you! ;0)

Jun 16, 2009
Kim Pericles

Hi Donelle - thanks for the welcome! Am already here in DC, looking forward to tomorrow :-)

Jun 26, 2009
suehellman

HI Donelle -- sorry to be so long getting back to you. I'm here at NECC and so are the Wilkes people. If you want to take a look at the blog I"m maintaining for them, please go to this page of my Small Changes; BIG RETURNS tools wiki and you can link from there. The courses can be very intense, but I'm learning a lot from the process of allowing myself to be challenged by the content and trying to find ways to incorporate new ideas into the tool chest of an old teacher (moi). There's a ning that is in development as well, and thanks to the 21st century thinking of another Canadian student, many of us are trying to take the same courses and we meet online in Elluminate on Tuesdays at 6:00 Pacific time. I started by lurking and listening there to see if it was what I really wanted.

Jun 27, 2009
Chris Lindsay

Thanks for the friend request! Had a great time at edublog con. Hope you did too - I'll look for you during necc!

Jun 28, 2009
Josh Paluch

Hi Donelle,
I'm both a doc student in EdTech at the Univ. of Florida and a 4th grade teacher. I'm currently researching the explicit educational value of SNSs for elementary students and have just happened on elgg. I know Ning is a no-no for the <13 crowd, but hear that elgg might be somehow different. Do you have an opinion on what tools/services I should be looking at? Thanks, Josh
http://www.joshpaluch.com

Jul 7, 2009
Beth Still

Hey Donelle----I just started a new group for people who support the ISTE 10 Newbie Project! You will have to stop by and check it out!

Jul 20, 2009
Hassan Wilson

Small world, I just subscribed to your blog and commented on your article about digital textbooks. Congrats on the new position btw.

Aug 13, 2009
Beth Still

Are you still alive. We HAVE to talk!!! It is important.

Sep 16, 2009
Margit

Aloha Donelle,

Hope you are doing well......

Margit

Nov 7, 2009
Michael Pfannenstiel

Donnelle, are you using any video conferencing technologies at your school district? Check out www.appiavideo.com. Desktop PC based mulit point video conferencing. It is a new technology launch for us and since you are a technology evangelist I would like to hear your feedback. Feel free to contact me at mp@appiaservices to demo the service.

Nov 17, 2009
Leon Avrech

Hi Donelle, saw that you are in Rocklin where the 49ers practiced years ago. My name is Leon Avrech, San Jose CA and a 49er fan, not too many miles from their new practice hdqs in Santa Clara. I wanted to share with you that I recently had a book published that I hope you will tell new teachers about and those planning to be teachers. The title is,THINK YOU CAN TEACH? A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS. It is available from xlibris.com, amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com I am retired after 37 yrs in middle school as teacher, vp, principal and mentor teacher. I had a passion for teaching my 8th grade U.S History classes. The book begins with the first day on campus to the end of year evaluation.
Lesson plans, yard duty, parent conferences, are among the many topics covered.
Thank you.

Mar 4, 2010