I"m going to check out voicethread right now. Glad to have you here and contributing already!

Wow! Voice thread is really interesting. I look forward to playing around with it. Thanks for the heads up on that.

Hi, thanks for the warm welcome.

Hello from another sixth grade teacher (in Massachusetts)
Kevin

Hi Susan. I discovered you, and Classroom2.0, while browsing at Voice Thread. I love your Voice Thread.

There simply aren't enough hours in the day to find and try out all the wonderful opportunities that are now available for our students on the web.

--Paul

Hi Susan,
Thanks for the invitation! Wow! Lots of good stuff. I love (overly used word that herein means that I got excited by the concept contained within) your "Life without internet" comic strip.

I'm also absolutely ecstatic {how I wish that hadn't also become ho-hum in overuse) by your becoming a member of Playground 2.0. Hopefully you will feel comfortable in putting some of your links there ... I don't understand all access rights around here ... put I can tell from your page that you are way ahead of me in playground stuff.

Cheers,
Hilding

I love your new pic Susan! How did you do that?

Hi Susan, Thanks for the web link. I"m not only going to use it with my students, but my daughter too!

Hi Susan, email on grou.ps for you: interviews and I have added the wiki module. But map and chat is not working now.
Cheers

Hi, Susan, I just share dotsub with my delicious network. That could be a terrific adaptive technology. Thank you.

I would love to start my bookmarks over but alas I have too many. One of my dirty secrets...messy bookmarks :)

If you have not, subscribe to the tag necc07 on delicious, there is a huge list of links from the national conference in Atlanta. Lots o new stuff to look at.

Susan,

Nice to meet you. You seem to be pretty knowledgeable with Web 2.0 and open source products that can be of benefit in the educational setting. Thanks for sharing!

Becky

Hi Susan, I am spending way too many hours loading up on Web 2.0 tools for the new school year thanks to your additions to this network. I checked out voicethreads and dotsub - can't wait to put them to use. THANK you!
JoNelle

Hi Susan ... from the users side its fairly easy to get up and going ... to actually modify island terrain and get buildings and your own content it s little tougher than Secondlife .... One thing I really like about it is its a peer to peer based system so every client has its own island and can invite other croquet users to their space to interact... One of my goals it to create a fairly straight forward users guide ... as well as a guide for what to use to build objects, and get them on your island. Another neat function is that once an island is created, terrain modified, objects imported... you can save the island and its objects all in one file (to share with other projects).. So I also plan on building basic island with basic objects in the future and sharing them as well.

Hi Susan ... actually squeak wouldn't really be necessary --- Croquet comes with several functional worlds .. here are good videos to get started with: http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/Tutorials

Susan, Your work with converting powerpoints to video is a huge help. spresent makes impressive presentations that are easy to navigate. When I locate the correct original version of my PPT, this will work great! Thank you AGAIN!

Hi, I've decided to join.
your work is incredible. I don't know how you find all those great web 2.0 applications.
Thanks for sharing your hard work.

That's absolutely fine to translate those videos... what a great idea!
Drop me a link to the completed products when you're done, I'd love to see them in another language :)

Cheers, Rachel

Susan, Have you looked at Moodle for use in Hebrew. When setting up a site you can 'force' the language to a number that are available, including hebrew.

sHALOM TO YOU TOO
i HEAR MUSIC BUT i DO NOT KNOW HOW TO RESPONS.
RUTY

Hi Susan - just got your request. Have you tried out YouFig.com? It's a useful student-student collaboration tool that might be worth introducing to your students. Message me for an invitation (or email me to akm10 (at) cornell (dot) edu. I still have a few invites available.

Hi Susan, I saw that you mentioned using Hebrew and thought I'd look up your page. I was in Israel in March 2007 for the KATOM laptop project - speaking to teachers and touring schools. Are you at a KATOM school?

Hi Susan, this looks like a great page. Unfortunately I cannot read or speak Hebrew - had a translator my whole time in Israel. However, I fell in love with your beautiful, historical and holy country and still think about it often. Do you know people at the KATOM schools? I have a few email addresses. They do such great stuff in general at the Davidson Institute for teachers as well.

Hi Susan - I believe that we have collaborated before. I am in Hannibal, Missouri. I remembered your name as an email pal contact teacher in Israel, and I think one of your classes participated in the Monster Project with us. I have just joined this space and was happy to see a name I recognized! -- Cheers, Terry

Susan...

Thank you so much for mentioning the Class Room 2.0 page, what a great idea. I have posted an introduction. I look forward to hearing what the teachers have to say, and hopefully formulating a project shortly.

Thanks Again,
Cassandra

Hey Susan - we are just starting the Monster Project - if you know a primary classroom that would like to jump in right now, please email me. We still have room. tsmith@hannibal.k12.mo.us or see the project at www.smithclass.org

Terry

Susan,
Just checked my Blog to see that you left a message. We would love to hear about "Holiday's" Around the World, not just Christmas. Please share what you can. Maybe we can also collaborate with our schools about the same subject. Let me know what you think!

Susan,
Let's do a collaborative "travel buddy" project with a stuffed animal. We will get a small stuffed animal to send your students. We will include pictures with our animal of daily events in Kansas, as well as something edible from Kansas, and other interesting items we can find. If you do the same with your kids, maybe we can create a voicethread to share what our students think of the project. What do you think? Let me know if you think this is something that is possible. Thanks!

Hi Susan,

I am new to Classroom 2.0 and Web 2.0 tools. I am a whiz on the computer so I hope to pick it up pretty quickly. I am so excited about this wonderful resource I’ve found here. I’m writing you because I was just hired as a computer lab teacher for grades K-5. I am so excited about my new position. I’ll start in December. I was hoping you could give me some tips. Do you have each grade level complete the same activity each week? Such as one plan for K, one for 1st, etc.? How do you organize in order to keep up with which class has completed which activity, how far they are along, etc.? I would love to hear your way of doing things if you don’t mind sharing!

If you’d rather email me that would be great! amercoggin@hotmail.com

Thanks

Hi Susan,
I was just browsing around classroom 2.0 and found your page. I use Dvolver (formerly dfilm) with my students but didn't realize you could embed the completed movies into a webpage. Is that something new or do you have a little trick you can share.

By the way Happy Hannukah!

Hi Susan,

Sorry about that. I thought of more I wanted to say but didn't have time to type it out at the moment, so I deleted it. I'm interested in possibly participating in your VoiceThread and signed up last night, but I'm not sure I can make it happen in such a short amount of time. I just started my job today, and I don't even know if we have microphones! I think it is an awesome project, so I will let you know if I can swing it!

Thanks,
Amber

Susan,
Toda for leaving a voicethread on the Christmas Around the World Voicethread. If you know of anyone else who would like to comment, please send it on. We would love to hear from someone on every continent, so let everyone know about it. I would still like to collaborate on a project, just let me know if you have any ideas. Maybe we can share some of the symbols of our community, state and country, and your students could do the same. Maybe even do a sharing project with voicethread and Skype. Just let me know what will work for you. Happy Hannakuh! Craig

Glad I could share something useful with the experts around here!

Good evening

I'm French and i teach history and geography in a middle school.

I'm writing you because i wondered if you are interested by a distant collaboration with my students about education to peace. Maybe you know that french people doesn't know very well the israelo-palestinian conflict, and you know that resurgence of forms of antisemitism in France since Second Intifada worried jewish community... This is the reason why, probably, the french national organization "School to the Cinema", schedules this year the documentary film "Promises". Unfortunately, this wonderful movie was before Intifada, so i need to give us infos about the current situation for Israelians and Palestinians ... And the best way is to join children from Israel and Palestine; like in the movie...

Vincent Mespoulet
Schools Beyond the Walls
http://horslesmurs.ning.com

Hi Susan, thanks a lot for your message, i'll try what you suggest me. I'm very happy ton find on YouTube Update 2004 of Promises. I'll put the two videos on my Ning. It's great to see how children become adult, even if the global message is pessimistic in the current situation between Israelians and Palestinians. Have a nice day !

Hello Susan!

I've become a new member not too long ago and am very excited about this site. Needless to say as a new member I know no one. May I kindly invite you as a guest to my site (http://ntoond2.ning.com/). Any suggestions or comments you may have on how best to navigate the 2.0 world would be most appreicated.

Also, would you care to share any sayings which are particular to your country on my site? For example, in the US one can say "Waste not, want not" or "Birds of a feather flock together", "A stitch in time saves nine"... and so on.

I'd be most grateful.
Thanks and hope to hear from you.

Aaron

Hi Susan,

We are know as SITACT Incorporated and we operate out of Chicago. You can
find more about us at www.sitact.ent. We are into developing virtual
learning environments and course settings so that it becomes easy to set up
an online course for a teacher. A sample of what we do can be seen at
www.lms.sitact.net . Please use the guest login
and use "frankieuncle" as the guest access code. What you will see in here
is a simple course that describes the software, but this course can be
designed to teach diverse subject matter to students and the Moodle implementation we are doing can be transalated to 36 languages including Isreali. If you feel the kind
of work we are doing will be useful for you, we will be glad to work with
you setting up such virtual courses for collaborative dissemination and consumption of knowledge. Even if you didn't like the work we do, please let us know if we can do anything else for you.

Regards,
Sanjib

Any luck with Elgg yet? What is your server set up?

Take care.

Steve

Dear Susan,

We already have the website of our project finished and we’d like to share it with you.

The goal of Bablingua is to offer good audiovisual materials filmed in Hispanic countries that can help teachers to enrich their classes. In the website there are short videos, long videos, vocabulary cards and a blog with free activities, games and new ideas for the foreign language class.

Please, visit us at : www.bablingua.com, and let us know your opinion, comments and ideas you have to improve it.

Alvaro and Laura

Bablingua

Hi, Susan. Thank you so much for responding. I apologize for the delay in responding.
We'd be interested first in finding partners for our sophomores (ages 15-16) who are reading the book, The Whale Rider. As our wiki shows, we do a range of different works, possibly some that will be studied in some distant place and on which our students can collaborate.
Even if we can't find a match for the sophs, i'm confident that someone in our district (K-12, 8,000 students or so) will be able to start the conversation at other levels.
You can write me at abendelow@elmhurst205.org and I'll pass along your proposal to those who can leverage it.

Thank you again, Susan,
andrew

Hi Susan,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' groun, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, 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. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, 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.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

I am the education manager with Glogster EDU. You appear to be an avid proponent of Glogster. We are always interested in feedback from our users to help us as we grow. Thanks so much!
Jim Dachos
Education Manager
Glogster EDU

Thank you very much! I'll look into it. The Online Ed Program at the University where I work is still being developed; I'm proud to be a part of it. We pretend to reach those people who can't attend college because of time limitations or distance. I really want to make a difference, and that's the reason why I'm researching the best ways for them to learn.

Hey, looks like great educators always flock to the best sites. Glad we connected here!