Laurie Staley

Female

Spokane, WA

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Riverside Middle School
Skype Account
laurie.staley
About Me
In my 25th year of teaching, I have an eighth grade honors block of Language Arts and US History. I have taught third through eighth over the years. I am also a wife, mother of 5, stepmom of two, grandmother of 17 and greatgrandmother of one and one on the way. Obviously, kids are my life. I also garden, boat, swim, hike, bicycle, play volleyball and travel.
I am looking for ways to use the net with my students that the district won't block. I also want to learn to set up a blog and /or a website.

Comment Wall:

  • Mark Cruthers

    Hi Laurie,

    A couple of Web 2.0 technologies I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Also, as far as I know, neiter technology has been blocked yet. At least my district hasn't blocked them yet.

    Dec 24, 2008

  • marcotuts

    Hi,

    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 Marco Morales; 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. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, 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, 2008, 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 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,

    Marco Morales
    marcotuts@gmail.com

    Dec 26, 2008

  • Jack

    Hey Laurie,

    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!

    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.

    Do you mind telling students and your colleagues again?

    Thanks,
    Jack

    Apr 24, 2009