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Steve Hargadon

63, Male

Asheville, NC

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation: The Learning Revolution
Blog: http://www.SteveHargadon.com
Website: http://www.classroom20.com
Favored IM Account: hargadon@gmail.com
Skype Account: SteveHargadon
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: SteveHargadon
About Me: I am the founder and director of the Learning Revolution Project, the host of the Future of Education interview series, and founder and chair or co-chair of a number of annual worldwide virtual events, including the School Leadership Summit and the Global Education Conference, Library 2.0, the Future of Museums, Gaming in Education, and the Homeschool Conference.

I pioneered the use of live, virtual (and peer-to-peer) education conferences, popularized the idea of education "unconferences," built the first modern social network (Classroom 2.0) for teachers in 2007, and developed the "conditions of learning" exercise for local change. I supported and encouraged the development of thousands of other education networks, particularly for professional development. For the last eight years, I've run a large annual ed-tech unconference, now called Hack Education (previously EduBloggerCon). I blog, speak, and consult on educational technology, and my virtual and physical events build community and connections in education, with 450,000 members and over 100,000 participant log-ins annually.

My newest project is SmallIsBeautiful.com, events around the intentional move toward small-scale, local food, living, community, work, and learning.

I have been the Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE, a regular co-host of the annual Edublog Awards, the author of "Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education," and the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE). I have consulted or served on advisory boards for Blackboard, CoSN, Horizon Project / New Media Consortium (NMC), Instructure, Intel, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, MERLOT, Microsoft, Mightybell, Ning, PBS, Promethean, Speak Up / Project Tomorrow, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. State Department, and others typically focusing on educational technology and social networking. A number of corporations and organizations support my events, and you can see a list and more details of my projects at Web 2.0 Labs.

Personal Information: I was a foreign-exchange student through AFS to Brazil for a year in high school, and organized and led group tours for several years as my first job after college for Stanford's Alumni Association. I spent 2013 traveling around the world talking to people about education. I have the skin condition Vitiligo and created the world's largest social network for those with Vitiligo at VitiligoFriends.org as well as the UniquelyBeautiful.net site. I also run a network for members of the extended Hargadon family--Hargadon is an Irish name, and all Hargadons come from Sligo.

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Govinda Prasad Panthy

http://tinyurl.com/Govinda

Oct 20, 2009
Jim Wallace

Looking for pilot school districts to utilize our technology in their schools, we're at http://www.getpeek.com.

It's a simply emailing device which can enable schools to push homework, alerts, exams, coursework, etc. through to students.

Oct 21, 2009
jackie alcalde marr

Hi Steve,
I met you at the Soc Media Club of Sacramento a few weeks back. I'll be speaking at an education conference on the use of social media in learning, and I'm looking forward to talking with you on the subject. When can we meet? Please let me know a few times you have available next week. (See our book, Social Media At Work. We focus on how social media is being used in a variety of orgs - educational organizations are just one area.)

2nd topic: I was in Seattle this week presenting at the ODN, and missed the great presentations by Judi Fusco/Patty Schank, and Rushkin Hurley and Sam Adkins...are these recorded anywhere for us? Would love to see them!

Looking forward to chatting with you!
jackie

Oct 21, 2009
jackie alcalde marr

Hi Steve,
I really appreciate your support in spreading the word about our book! The book doesn't have too much in it on educational orgs - it only highlights how USF uses twitter to help attract students. Why don't we have a quick phone call first to see what our possibilities are. At the moment, Wednesday afternoon looks pretty open for me. Do you have any time then? My number: 916.983.6407 or 650.303.7095cell.
Looking forward to our chat,
jackie

Oct 24, 2009
Deirdre Bonnycastle

Steve the time for my Elluminate session is incorrectly listed its 2PM Pacific.

Nov 2, 2009
Beth Harris

Hi Steve, Wondering about the collaboration between Classroom 2.0 and PBS to do webinars via elluminate. We do professional development with teachers via elluminate for the Museum of Modern Art - so I am wondering about a possible collaboration...
Thoughts?
Beth

Nov 4, 2009
Margit

Aloha Steve!

Hope all is well.... was visiting the site this morning.

Chat Soon

Margit

Nov 7, 2009
Anne Mirtschin

Hello Steve. I was hoping to listen to your presentation at the VITTA conference that you are attending in Melbourne soon. Although I will be at VITTA on the Tuesday, I could not get further time off on Wednesday to hear you. Are you presenting anywhere else? Will you be at the VITTA dinner?
I would love to meet you face to face but that will have to be another time. Have you been to Australia before? Anyway enjoy your time and I wish that I was one of the fortunate audience to be in your session.

Nov 13, 2009
ddn59@7taddaw

Hello.
My name is Ms. Sui Chin Line Stars nickname name Eve help. I participated in classroom activities, computer courses.
Now I'm learning about programming. Need advice regarding programming help.

Nov 24, 2009
ddn58@2Prabhaporn

Hello,Good afternoon,boy I am a Thai girl help teach school students. Now is the class Dat Daruni school of Chacheongsao education New Year 5 help to Thailand now and then cold weather starts. But for countries in the region that you have organized this very cool no help. You have come to see what some of Thailand. Here help hot delicious food such as shrimp hot and sour soup, Pad Thai. Places such as Phuket, Pattaya to see it try to open any space experience available help. Thai people are kind-hearted and help. Pleased to know thank you help.nice to meet you. I'm sorry if my language invalid players. You may not understand. I'm not good at English but I try and help the big New.thank you for this comment! PS.The visit is free to greet each other.

Nov 24, 2009
ddn58@2Prabhaporn

Oh~ I'm sorry,I forget introduced myself.My name is Prapaporn.

Nov 24, 2009
Alison Margaret Miller

such a silly question: on Chat, pressing return just cancels my message so what must I do to send a comment to the chat?

Dec 10, 2009
K Kavita Rao

Sir,
thankyou for starting this network..im happy to be a member of classroom2.0

Dec 14, 2009
Katie Brosious

Thanks Steve, I really appreciate what you've done here, and definitely respect your rules on vendors!

Dec 27, 2009
Scott Habeeb

Steve - would you be interested in my "cleaning up" the Ning in Education site? I'd be more than happy to go through and take out the spammers, etc.

Jan 4, 2010
Leon Avrech

Not too far from me. San Jose. Friends have moved to Lincoln. My book recently published is, THINK YOU CAN TEACH? A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS" Good for any other grade too. Available from xlibris.com, amazon.com,
barnesandnoble.com Huge help for new teachers. I was in middle school/jr high as teacher, mentor teacher, principal. Leon Avrech

Feb 15, 2010
Robert Thiele

Hi Steve, (RE: student cell phones used in educational settings)

I don't know if I have been approved here yet - I left a comment one day answering a question from another post. Someone posted a response indicating that spammers are not welcome here. Understanding this, I replied that I was not a spammer - instead a technologist that created a SMS text messaging solution for teachers, students and parents to address the posted inquiry. If I can help anyone in K12 or beyond with this solution, please drop me a line at rtrisk@gmail.com. The URL is http://messaging4education.com. Always trying to help - Thanks! Robert Thiele in Dallas

Feb 17, 2010
Robert Thiele

Understood and thanks for reply. I have offered the software (a single complimentary license) to several schools at no charge including Liz Kolb. Teachers need to get the right software before they can really add value to existing cellphones I suppose. Let me know if I can help you or any educators you know - in this space.

Best regards,

R. Thiele
M4E SMS Servers

Feb 17, 2010
Leon Avrech

Thanks Steve for your email. Leon Avrech. I know my book will help new and soon to be new teachers. My book, THINK YOU CAN TEACH? A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS is help teachers succeed in this important grade level.
Applicable to all grades, however. See: homeclassroomvideo.com then self esteem and you can read more about my book or the publisher at xlibris.com HOME CLASSROOM VIDEO is a business I began in 1988 to bring an excellent teacher in the home. Leon

Feb 17, 2010
Christie Rochester

Steve, I seem to have 2 accounts...how can I delete on of them? Thank you - Christie Rochester of Rochester, NY

Mar 22, 2010
Bill Oldread

Steve,

I am very interested in learning more about the Global conference that you are planning. What is the best way to do that?

Bill

Apr 27, 2010
Bill Oldread

I would love to talk about your plans and how the conference might dovetail with our strategic plan relative to collaboration with and support of professional dev. efforts outside of our own organization. Do you Skype?

Apr 27, 2010
Cliff Lyon

Sorry about that Steve. I was actually doing a demo and got a bit lazy.

Apr 28, 2010
Bill Oldread

I have your contact info and have added you to my Skype list. Late next week would be great. I am 15 hours ahead so I think it will be fine any time late afternoon onward your time. Thanks.

Apr 29, 2010
Eric Burgess

Hey Steve, thanks for all your work with Classroom 2.0. It's a great network!

-eric burgess
@ericburgess
@mousemischief

May 6, 2010
Karenne Sylvester

Hi Steve,

I'm writing to ask if you wouldn't mind helping me circulate a very simple poll that I have created regarding edu-blogging: principally my question is on which blogging platforms are being used and where edu-bloggers are mainly based.

As I teach in Germany as an EL/ESP Teacher my contacts tend to be mainly those in ELT so I would like to widen the scope of answers - my results so far are that 60% of blogging teachers are based in Europe and I'm pretty sure that there are more of you in the US!

Would you be able to forward the poll on to the teachers on here that blog (for other teachers or with their students, perhaps those attending the EduBlogger Unconference event and/or your twitter contacts?

I would be very, very, grateful for your help with this!

Take care,
Karenne Sylvester

Short URL: http://tiny.cc/EdBlogP1

Long URL: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG1lcnhYWjc2cW9fOTk...

May 27, 2010
Kandi Horsman

Hi Steve,
I'm presenting a workshop on wikis to district staff in August. I see you have a podcast entitled "Wikis--What Are They, and Why Use Them in Education?" from 8/24/06. However, I can't seem to find an active link to the MP3. I'd like to use it during the session. Any help you can give would be much appreciated!
Kandi

Jun 1, 2010
Kathy Gutowsky

Thanks. It will be my first EduBlogger and I am really fired up about it. See you there!

Jun 4, 2010
David Bill

Thanks for the welcome message. Yes, This is my second account at Classroom 2.0 but I figured I should create a profile for my new position. Was just about to email you. Likewise, I enjoyed our conversation as well. I will send you an email so we can begin our plan of attack on the series. Have a great 4th!

Jul 3, 2010
Kevin

Any way I could Skype with you sometime today and have you talk about Classroom 2.0 and what you've seen since the beginning with a group of Arkansas teachers?

Jul 8, 2010
Gisele Cordero

Hi Steve! My name is Gisele. I am an educator from Costa Rica. I want to thank you for this opportunity to share and learn from other teachers.
I am trying to decide between a Wiki to set up the information for all my Chemistry classes so my students can access and collaborate or a Ning network.
What is your advice?
Thanks again,
Gisele

Jul 9, 2010
Peter Lane

Steve,

Hope you are enjoying the current heat wave?... :( I, personally, could go with a few less ticks upward on the outside thermometer!! Anyhoo...

I am planning on returning to school this coming year and would like to get a "blank" laptop/netbook and install all open source software. Do you know where I should start and/or can you point me in the direction I should head to get started? Thanks so much.

Pete

Jul 17, 2010
John J Caprice

Dear Steve,
I have a security concern.
Teacher profiles can be accessed by anyone using the web and clicking on their photo.
With a little research, anyone can find out where they work. It seems that most teachers are so trusting that they provide too much info on themselves.
Do you have any thoughts on this?
JOhn J Caprice

Sep 24, 2010
John J Caprice

Well Steve,
If my daughter posted her photo and profile on an open web, I'd ask her to make it private. Why invite trouble? Thats all...an ounce of prevention
I may be a little paranoid, maybe that comes with age....maybe I have too many cops and detectives as friends and realtives.
JJC

Sep 24, 2010
Giuditta Assandri

HI! I have a question for you. I'm writing my thesis and I post a survey in Classroom 2.0. I observed that, among members of classroom, ther are few people that come from to UK. this matter is curious! I ask you if in UK exists another community of educators as Classroom 2.0 and, for this, a lot of english use others tools. thanks.

Oct 6, 2010
Karmin Bourdo

Hi everyone! I am a 1st grade classroom teacher from Delton Michigan. I am excited to connect with teachers from around the country. I am looking for ways to be very intentional in the teaching and learning process and integrate technology into the classroom in hopes to communicate better with parents.

Feb 17, 2011
Ben Waldram

Thanks for the comment - glad it amused. So true though.

Apr 17, 2011
Lizzie Chase

Steve

I have written a free English teachers resource [which may suit other teachers too because it features tool tips for Web 2.0 tools]. It is at http://otherworlds.yolasite.com

If you think it is useful, after taking a look, feel free to link to it!

Cheers

Lizzie Chase

lizziechase@hotmail.com

Apr 20, 2011
Matt Bury

Thanks! :)

Jan 2, 2012
Vivian Forssman

Hi Steve,

I am preparing for job interviews this week at both Stanford GSB and at Cal Poly (Director Academic Technology positions at both universities). I was thinking about the ideas you presented at the DET/CHE conference - I was quite enthusiastic about how you presented the importance of academic leadership in technology-enabled learning and teaching. But the themes are now murky after a month of mulled win. (DET/CHE was early December - oh how the calendar marches on!). Would you be willing to share your slide deck - certainly if I were to use anything from your narrative, I would cite you.

Speaking of Finland, bet you are already onto this, but just-in-case....

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-...

Thanks,

Vivian

Jan 2, 2012
Halima Ozimova

Salom Steve,

Just've tweeted to Richard:

@rmbyrne Hi Richard,may my thread be included as aPoll?In emerging economies like Uzbekistan ths issue is a Novelty

http://www.couchsurfing.org/group_read.html?gid=2164&post=10938064

With respect from Tashkent,

Halima

Feb 26, 2012
Kevin

Hi Steve,

I left this message: Hey Kevin H this is Kevin Honeycutt. Somehow I log into your account using my credentials. Do you have any idea how I can get my account back? When you log in you get this page too right?

On Kevin H's page. When I log in to CR2.0 I am him and I would love to be me again. Do I need to have you kill my old account and start over? I hate to lose my history here.

Kevin

Apr 20, 2012
Michele Eaton

Thanks for a great summit! Proud to be a part of it!

Apr 21, 2012
Daniel Bassill

Steve, you've had great success drawing a crowd to this site since you launched it several years ago. Have you ever tried to do any network analysis to map what cities/states people come from and what roles (teacher, admin, vendor, community, etc) people have. Such maps of such a large sample could shed some interesting light on which cities/states have greater engagement of teachers in on-line learning than others. If you're already doing that please point it out on the site.

May 14, 2012
Jon Trainor

OK Steve, Thanks!

May 30, 2012
Assoc. Prof Dr Vinod Kr Kanvaria

Hi Steve,

When is 'Classroom 2.0: The book' going to be published?

Vinod

Jan 22, 2013
Kristina Stoney

Thanks Steve! That's terrific feedback. Sometimes I'm beginning to wonder. Would appreciate any/all feedback ideas at any time! We have a new 'hidden' unit that we are keen to test to see if it is relevant for teachers today here: ride2learn.org/centralasia - let us know what you think if you have the chance! ;-) I'm going to check out your book club now, looks interesting. Floored by 'Schooling the World' documentary watched yesterday - extraordinary, looking forward to being challenged in my assumptions further. Cheers, K

Feb 1, 2013
AizaUmair

Hi, Steve I am from Pakistan. I am an Early years teacher.I need your help in replying to my question on discussion forum. I hope that you will help me in this regard.

Jun 14, 2013
nishatkashir

hi Steve, I am Nishat Kashir and working as a Mathematics curruculum coordinator. While training the teachers the barriers in the successful implementation of ICT in teaching are their incompetencies, lack of moyivation and confidence in using new technologies. A lot of training and motivation is required.

Would you kindly share the kind of barriers you see in your institution and how you deal with those issues

Jun 25, 2013
Michelle Vroom

Understood... And thanks for the reply. Can I remove the links from the blog I submitted? It's the first time out of the gate here for me and want to be sure to comply.

Sep 22, 2014

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