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Hi Alison. I was wondering if your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. Perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

Hi Alison,

With your work in Education Technology and Web 2.0, 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.

Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Evan Morikawa. I am a 20 year old student from Olin College of Engineering (near Boston). I am a part of a group of six Olin students who are taking a year off to pursue interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, which brought us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school" on Classroom2.0, and since our project is specific to middle schools and uses new learning technology, I thought you might be interested. Our company is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. 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. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. 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 and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.

Our team 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. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.

Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!

Thanks,
Evan Morikawa
evan.morikawa@students.olin.edu

Hi Alison!

How are you doing these days?

Alison,

It's Donna Hebert. I'm really enjoying your class. thanks for putting it together!

Hi Alison, This has been a great class.....I can't believe all the Web 2.0 'stuff' that is out there and I know we only touched the surface.

Sounds like a great start. We're in the middle of wrapping up the term, so I'll e able to give more thought in the first two weeks in October.
Look forward to working with you!
E.

Hi Alison
I have just read your post on Chad Outten's profile regarding corresponding with other schools.

I teach Yr 6 in Sydney, Australia (around 11 -12 years of age). We are about to go on 2 weeks holiday (yay!!) and then come back for the last term of the year. As they are in yr 6, these chn are preparing for high school next year. We have a very multicultural school make-up; Filipino, Samoan, Maori, Anglo-Saxon - and all proud Australians!!

I think it would be fantastic to "hook up" next term - one of our units of work is Identity and Values and I see lots of opportunity for cultural exchange.

Cheers