Connie Weber

Ann Arbor

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Emerson School
Blog
http://firesidelearning.ning.com
Website
http://firesidelearning.ning.com
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
twitter: connieweber
About Me
Long time fan of Steve Hargadon, very grateful for his visionary impact on education. Participant in CR2.0 since it was about 200 members. In December, 2007, I created Fireside Learning, a spinoff international network for educational and pedagogical discussions, including administrators, teachers, professors, parents, business-people, and college students.

I'm learning more than ever in my life, on an extreme learning binge, thanks to having networks of deep-thinking colleagues.

Teacher-leader, professional development leader, eager to participate at the upcoming Harvard Summer Institute "Future of Learning" as well as Project Zero. Originator of "Fireside Chats," a F2F model for local PD groups. Evaluator for the American Teacher Awards for more than a decade; featured in Creativity in the Classroom series.

Interested in teaching kids about nature, evolution, ecology: immigration in American culture; creativity in teaching/learning, reflective learning; student motivation through empowerment and ownership of learning.
Personal: certified dog tracker, soccer coach and player, gardener
Personal heroes: E.O. Wilson, John Dewey, Jane Goodall
Favorite cartoons: Far Side, Citizen Dog, Mutts, Get Fuzzy

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  • Govinda Prasad Panthy

    Hello there, i'm a school teacher/founder from Nepal. I run an elementary school for poor family rural children. I'm Govinda by my name. if u find me like minded person plz mail me at gopisu@gmail.com

    Sep 12, 2008

  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi Connie,

    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 'e-learning and online teaching' 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 a competition for startup funding 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

    Dec 29, 2008

  • Jack

    Hi Connie. I was wondering if you have students who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

    Jan 31, 2009