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School / Work Affiliation: Lexington Middle School, Lexington, Nebraska

About Me: I teach 7th Grade Life Science, ZAP, and Reading at Lexington Middle School. I am currently coaching 8th grade volleyball but I have been the assistant varsity girls volleyball and basketball coach at the high school as well as coaching volleyball, basketball and track at the middle school.

I graduated High School from Elm Creek Public Schools in 1992 and from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Secondary Education with an emphasis in Natural Sciences and Coaching. While in college I was actively involved in the Phi Mu Fraternity, the YMCA and the YMCA Youth Sports Program. I am currently working on getting my masters in Curriculum and Instruction. My co-teacher and I are currently working towards getting our classrooms geared to a one to one (each student having their own laptop) educational experience.

My husband, daughter, son and I love attending various athletic events at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. My favorite past time is to spend time with my family and friends, relaxing and playing at the lake!

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At 11:45pm on February 21, 2010, Dave said…: Hello Amber,

I am a graduate student at California State University Fresno. I am looking for anyone who might know of a middle school or schools who would like to participate in my master's research project. I am trying to determine how much time middle school students (6th-8th graders) spend on line using social networking sites and on-line collaborative web sites to discuss academic content. I am looking for 1:1 laptop students and also students who do not use laptops in their classrooms. I need the following: school name, contact name and e-mail address. Thanks!

Dave Hauxhurst
ea.literacycoach@gmail.com

At 12:30pm on December 30, 2008, Jack said…: Hi Amber!

Hope you're enjoying the winter break. 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 Nebraska!

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

At 2:44am on December 27, 2008, Evan Morikawa said…: 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