It is great to have such quick feedback. I am going to visit your DigiSkills site.

Thanks!! I look forward to checking out your sites!

Hallo Hans,
auch in Deutschland gibt es seit neuestem die Initiative der Vernetzung von Schule, Bildung und Forschung mit Web 2.0. Und wie man Web 2.0 im Unterricht einsetzen kann.
Schau doch einfach mal bei uns vorbei, denn deine Beiträge hier sind einfach toll. :)
http://maschendraht.mixxt.de
Liebe Grüße
Melanie

Hi Hans
Ver glad to meet you, I wish you merry chritsmas too.
I hope to be in touch during 2009
All the best
Luis Lizama

Merry Christmas!!! Thank you for you invitation, it will be an honor included in their blogs.

Hey Hans,

Here's Wishing you Merry Christmas !

Mark

Thank you! Very interesting.

Thanks for the comment!

I'm actually working on a project of my own that you might be interested in:

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 have taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' group, 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

Hallo Hans,
wie geht es mit den Classmates an deiner Schule?
Gruß aus München
Evi

hallo Hans,
wir sind uns ja schon ein paarmal kurzfristig über den Weg gelaufen :). Ich finde es nach wie vor faszinierend, was du alles auf die Beine stellst. Mein Problem sind meine doch sehr spärlichen Englisch-Kenntnisse - strengt mich immer ein wenig an, alles rauszufinden, was es so gibt.
Unsere Classmates hatten wir zur Probe 4 Wochen vor den Sommerferien bis zu den Ferien...haben dann rausgeschunden, dass wir sie nochmals bis zu den Herbstferien bekamen. Nun hat die Gemeinde einen Leasingvertrag gemacht und die 6. Klasse besitzt nun diese Netbooks. Problem ist, dass ich "nur Fachlehrerin" bin und die Klasslehrerin sich zwar tapfer schlägt, aber doch nur sehr wenig Erfahrung hat. Wird schon noch. Wir benutzen außerdem auch Moodle.
Was ist das mit dem Comenius?...Mich würden auch deine diversen Schülerblogs interessieren - bin mal über eine 9. Klasse gestolpert, aber ich finde den Blog nicht mehr...interessiere mich für Voicethread...auch wie man Videos macht, weiß ich noch nicht so recht. Vielleicht kann ich ja Einiges von dir lernen, was ich dann an andere Kolleginnen und Kollegen weitergeben könnte?
Gruß Evi

Hi Hans, great to meet you and hear about your interest in Web 2.0 applications. I've joined your Comenius network.

Many schools from Germany and all round Europe use our community to help their Comenius partnerships. Feel free to have a look around at www.rafi.ki- it's totally free for teachers.

Thanks a lot for your nice words and invitation. I'll take a look as soon as possible.

Hi Hans - and thanks for your welcome!! Is nice to hear from someone from so far away - the joy of the technological world! My husband and I have been "host mum and dad" for two German students so far and we have thoroughly enjoyed their company! Such polite boys and we have learnt so much from them.

I can see that this site is a great source of inspiration and ideas - so am looking forward to experimenting and learning all I can! That is the thing I love about teaching - you could never possibly get bored!!!

Cheers
Annette

Hi Hans, Happy New Year to you too.

This was my view on NYE - it looked even better with the fireworks.

Thanks for the welcome. I've just had a (very) quick look at Digiskills and will look into it in more detail over the next few days. There is so much that can be done in the classroom, sometimes it's hard to know where to start.

Amanda

Many thanks for your welcome!

Hi Hans !
Great site, blog, community! Alles toll ! I join the community with pleasure and I'm looking forward to sharing ideas and pojects !
Und einen Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr !

Hi Hans, thanks for adding me. Very interesting projects!

Hi Hans! Sorry about the french message! I'm simply inviting people to join my new ning on french literature in translation: www.frenchbookclub.ning.com ! Happy New Year!

Howdy from Texas, Hans! Thank you for the friendly welcome message. I am so excited to have learned about Classroom 2.0 and can't wait to share it with my colleagues! Your page is very impressive and inviting.

Looking forward to learning alot from colleagues like you!

Best wishes for 2009,
Aleida :)

Hi Hans! Thanks for adding me! I will join your group!
Valentina

Hello Hans, pleased to meet you and thanks for your comment. I am completely open to use these gadgets and technologies, 100% sure this is the way to follow in education. Congrats for the website and the good work, keep it up!!

Hello Hans. Hope you are keeping well. Was wondering if you might have any contacts for schools/colleges who would be interested in this FLOSS project? - http://pdonaghy.wikispaces.com/
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Patricia

Hans,
Hello from Florida, USA! I've been looking at your site and it is quite impressive. I am IM'ing my co-worker about some of your ideas. I'll check in again soon, Jen

Hello Hans!
Thank you for the kind welcome. I am rather new to this type of networking but I am interested in your site. I love new ideas! Mindi

Thanks Hans. I appreciate your welcome and will explore your site.
I will check in again in a few days after my travels.
Ryan

Hans, Many thanks for you kind welcome. I will certainly be exploring your site and sharing ideas.
Thomas

Hi Hans! Greeetings from Alabama. Thanks for your welcome. I will definitely be exploring your site and looking for new ideas. (and asking for help!)

Hope

Hi Hans,

thanks for inviting me to your group. I'm interesting in Web 2.0 apps my research is about mobile learning and web 2.0 mobile. See my digital post here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d0MDVuOZCI

Thank you for the warm welcome to your group. I've used web 2.0 in my EFL classroom - and am always looking for new ideas!
Micki

Thank you for your welcome Hans. I will check out your group. If you get a chance check out my blog: www.andrewjfraser.blogspot.com

Andrew

Thanks Hans for your welcome. I have signed up - it looks interesting! Check out my very new blog - http://www.adventuresinict.co.uk
Jon

Thanks Hans, for the warm welcome. It probably makes the difference whether a newcomer like me bothers to come back and leap the hurdle of the steep learning curve and actually get involved! So thankyou again. I am excited about the possibilities and the learning I will do!
Best wishes.

Hi Hans! Thanks for the welcome. I am excited about learning from so many excellent educators like you!

Hi Hans
Nice to meet you. I am not using Mahara but have heard about it. When I was working in New Zealand, I was working with Knowledge Net , a learning management system. In Australia, the concept of e-portfolios is really at an infant stage, if just beginning at all. I am going to use blogs for my students to create their e-portfolios. I have to be careful with this re age of my students and safety. I am a little concerned about whether this will support the true purpose of an e-portfolio, but my main focus for my MAsters is developing my practice in developing students who know how to teach themselves and who are reflective, self-directed learers.
I want to improve my knowledge of audio and video for reflection, rather than just having written reflections posted on a blog. I also want to encourage peer, parent and teacher feedback.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated or any sites or links that you think would be helpful, please pass these my way. I would also be interested in collaborating or chatting to other people who are interested in this field. I will follow your link and will keep in touch.

Hi Hans
I will have a look at all of the links. My students are 8-9 years old. I have a class website and each student has their own blog. The site is http://ourvoice2009year4.wikispaces.com

Hi Hans,
Thanks for your words. Yse, Lisbon is very nice indeed!
Thanks for the invitation. It will be a pleasure!
See you soon
fernando

Thanks Hans - very excited to be here in Classroom 2.0, lots to learn and lots to share :)

Hello Mr. Feldmeier. I am a general music teacher in Memphis, TN, and new to Classroom 2.0. I found your page while browsing the members area and wanted to invite you to participate in an online classroom/cultural exchange - your students and my students communicating with each other, sharing their work and developing a global relationship (for lack of a better term). Please let me know if you would like to try this. It has proven to be a successful way for my students to develop their communication skills and strengthen their appreciation for other cultures - nationally and internationally. I have a Voicethread posted on my page if you want to have a look - this would be an easy way for our students to communicate. You can also check out my students' projects on our music web page at http://web.me.com/knrgreene/RMSMusicMediaNetwork/Welcome.html. Hope to hear from you!

Hallo Hans, kannst du evt. jemandem mit Rat helfen zum Thema Fonter? Er musste von Moodle auf Fonter umsteigen und hat heute ein wenig über Twitter nachgefragt, ob jemand mit Fonter arbeitet. Soweit ich mich erinnere benützt ihr doch Fonter, oder? Web: http://www.blog.initiatived21.de
Twitter: twitter.com/scheppler...vielleicht kennst du ihn ja auch. Er hat einen guten, interessanten Blog zum Thema web 2.0.
Hab leider keine Mailadresse von dir, deshalb geb ich ihm mal diese Webseitadresse
Gruß aus München
Evi

Olá Otávio!
Eu adoraria participar de sua comunidade sim!!
Será que você poderia me convidar?
Obrigada!
Forte abraço,
Bianca

Hi, Hans. Nice to meet you

Hi Hans, I would recommend the book "Web 2.0: new tools, new schools". I personally found it really interesting.

Hey Anna, thanks for your interest! And let us share context!

Hello Hans, Glad to be added as a colleague.
I will be looking forward to learning from your ideas. Our school staff is new to Web 2.o, but they are ready and willing .......and allowing me to give them that push.

Reba

Hello Hans,

I´m very pleased of knowing you. I´m just starting to deal with Web 2.0 tools for education and it´s better learning together with other teachers than on your own. That´s why I´ve joined this network.
Well, these days I´m "fighting" with edu20.org and moodle. I´ve just created a moodle class on http://clase20.com.edumoot.com, hosted by "Key to School".
I hope I´ll have time for sharing my experiences.

Greetings from Motril (Granada)

Hello Antonio,

yes you´re right!
Good luck to do it!

Hans

Hello and thanks for adding me to your list of friends, Hans! :-)

Hello, thank you for adding me.

Say Merry Christmas in your language to the 1st grade at Broadfording http://voicethread.com/?#u7486.b154435