Blanca

, Female

Huntington

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
NY
Favored IM Account
blancaedu
Skype Account
blancab
About Me
I am an educational technology specialist working in NY. Extremely interested in the educational and social impact of technology in society, I enjoy observing one-to-one implementations around the country and looking at the data that drives their success. As an advocate for child care and educational reform, my belief is that assessment is key when looking at ways to redirect the way students are taught in schools today. I have seen amazing works and talked to amazing people in states other than NY and strive to make connections with people who can help move New York along in the area of assessment and instructional technology. A child of immigrant parents who came to this country legally, I also feel there are great social influences in this country that create additional challenges in the way of instruction. As economic and immigration policy begins to take form I would also like to connect with policy makers interested in studying the effects of education of our "silent" students. "Silent" only because of their lack of voting rights, not silent in their contributions and influences in society.

Comment Wall:

  • Hans Feldmeier

    Hi Bianca, welcome from good old Europe: Germany!
    I focus on Web 2.0 apps as to education.
    Additionally, I created the biggest group on Classroom 2.0: DigiSkills about digital teaching methods like wikis, blogs ... with now 198 members!
    Would love if you decide to join this group as well:)
    Hans

    Oct 17, 2007

  • Peg V

    Hi Bianca, Just noticed your comment. Well, have just found a student with an iPhone who is willing to do some experimenting. Still in the planning stage but will keep you informed. Progress is slow as my other technology has been limited.. new computer classroom, new server, NO LCD and NO Screen. Cramping my teaching styles. will be in touch!! Peg ; )

    Oct 23, 2007

  • Peg V

    By the way, I started a Mobile communications wiki space for the iPhone.

    Oct 23, 2007

  • Blanca

    Cool. You beat me to it. I got sidetracked looking at the wiki for teachers on Web 2.0 tools! I'll find it and post my comments. Have some notes from a while back on curriculum ideas. Thanks Peg!

    Oct 24, 2007

  • josh

    Hey! well...I teach social studies to a rather interesting group of middle students. I teach 6-8, but my actual class is always changing because my kids are on suspension from their home schools, some for less than 10 days, others up to 90. It can be pretty nuts. How about you?

    Oct 30, 2007

  • Nancy Sharoff

    WHAT are you doing online???? Aren't you EXHAUSTED from the travel? How long did it take you to get home? I'll look for you next time I'm in-world. I'll send you an invite -- I'm Laelia Laval....be on the look-out for it. With this class I probably won't get inworld until the weekend. See ya in the a.m.! Drive safely....

    Dec 17, 2007

  • Christine Southard

    Welcome to CR 2.0 Blanca. I work not too far from you. :)

    Jan 17, 2008

  • Christine Southard

    I just saw in an e-mail that you'll be attending a meeting w/ my TEAM program on Monday. I look forward to meeting you! :)

    Apr 4, 2008

  • Laura Rebecca

    Thanks for the feedback, Blanca! Sorry we couldn't talk more, but that's what cyberspace is for, right? I guess my advantage is that I would rather "ask for forgiveness than permission" and Dr. M has been very cool about that. Anyway, onward we go into the future...keep up YOUR good work too!

    May 16, 2008

  • Jack

    Hi Blanca. I was wondering if you and your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

    Jan 27, 2009

  • Jack

    Thanks, Blanca! I'll definitely keep you in the loop about the vocab video contest and any other tools at BrainyFlix

    Mar 1, 2009

  • Keith Mitchell

    Blanca, I have extended a invitation to our Ning STEM network. We are just getting started as you will see. I do not plan to extend invitations to most of our very large STEM community until there is a little more content and sharing going on. We are working on some ideas to promote more lurkers to contributors! The TRC manages STEM professional development in Texas with MSP dollars. Similar dollars also fund the TSTEM project. We are exploring how to broaden our network to reach all STEM educators in Texas.

    Mar 8, 2009

  • Jack

    Hey Blanca,

    Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country. And from what I've heard, students had a good time and learned some tough vocab. Some kids even discovered a passion for hamming it up in front of the camera and started video clubs.

    That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

    We'd love to have your kids involved. If it's not a good fit for them, maybe you have some colleagues you could pass our info to.

    Thanks,
    Jack

    Apr 22, 2009