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So, Allen-

Still hanging in there.  Went back to work 2011-12.  Still love teaching.

No real progress as yet on the Tech Front.  Brief 3 month access to on site computer lab.

Finished 2nd LARC Social Media Workshop last week.  Great refresher.  Free!

Hope you're doing well out there in CT,

Ahuva

Allen, Hope all is well. I have not been using Classroom 2.0 too much. My district is one of the ones laying off 70 plus teachers, so mostly this winter and spring I have been shaping up my resume; it worked; I landed a new job in Greenwich for next year. While I have not been laid off, by me leaving, one of my less senior colleagues might "survive" and I kind of thrive on a challenge/change. Here is my "new" ePortfolio, http://www.tmmccabe.com/ , if you open a few links you can see what I have been up to... Got any new stuff you can share that I can use with Grades 6-8? Have a good summer!

Get ready for this years Magnet Schools of America National Conference in Tampa by joining the MSA Tampa Ning at msatampa.ning.com and find your treasure in Magnet!

Hi Allen! Happy New Year! I, too, am sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is also NOT an exception... All kidding aside, I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from Connecticutt!

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

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