Classroom 2.0
Kevin Sandridge
Profile Information:
- School / Work Affiliation
- Middle School Tech Ed Teacher (Grades 6-8): Boone Middle School in Haines City, FL
- Blog
- http://notesfromtheridge.edublogs.org/
- Skype Account
- ksbluesbro
- Twitter / Plurk / Other Account
- ksblues
- About Me
- Well, let's see. I have a Master's Degree in Art History, but after meandering through the corporate realm as a business writer, I took up teaching and fell in love with it. Started teaching Math but shifted into Tech Ed and am really at home. I do put my MA to use as a Humanities professor at Polk Community College's Lakeland Campus teaching an Intro class as well as an upper level Contemporary Humanities class.
I cannot begin to tell you the life change that I've experienced since stumbling across Moodle in my search for a way to deliver course content in a more dynamic and engaging manner. Since then, I've created a Netvibes home page, have included some useful RSS feeds onto my Contemporary Hum course website, and am actively getting my Moodle classes up and running. Oh, did I mention Flickr? Yeah, uploaded more than 1,000 pics yesterday. I've also stumbled onto Mr. Wegner's Teaching Generation Z blog as well as the one hosted by Dean Shareski - both filled with lot of great info!
There's probably a really cool Web 2.0-esque term for what I'm going through at the moment. Whatever it is, I'm a newly born standard bearer for Web 2.0!
I look forward to learning and sharing with you all.
Best -
Kevin
Lisa Parisi
Aug 14, 2007
marcotuts
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
Jan 30, 2009