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School / Work Affiliation: Wydown Middle School

Blog: http://jwilmsmeyer.edublogs.org

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About Me: I am an 8th grade science teacher at a small middle school (600) in Saint Louis, Missouri. I enjoy using technology to enhance my curriculum and pedagogy. I was recently dubbed as a Google Certified Teacher and also enjoy helping teach/motivate colleagues to use technology in their classrooms and in their lives.

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At 7:31pm on December 30, 2008, Jack said…: Hi Joshua!

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 Missouri!

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

At 3:03am on December 27, 2008, Andy Pethan said…: Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin students (near Boston) who is taking a year off to pursue our interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, bringing us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school", 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:

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,
Andy Pethan
rockychat3@gmail.com

At 8:26pm on September 12, 2008, Kate Fanelli said…: Hello. I watched your google video and responded to it. Then I checked our your profile because I was curious what you taught. Then I read your blog. Just wanted to say that I really enjoyed reading your blog. It was so right on and clearly expressed. Not surprised Google liked you. I liked your insight on professional development. I liked your attitude toward teaching. I liked your introspection and your thoughtfulness toward the profession and your place in it. I've been doing some similar reflecting this year. Not sure if it's my age, my stage in my career, or just where I am in life, but I'm finding some real clarity of purpose in teaching and in my approach to the content and I felt like I read a similar sentiment in your blog. Thanks for the insights. And I'm wondering if you're going to do any sharing at Classroom 2.0 about what you learned in Google certification classes. I am familiar with some of the applications, but I have yet to use any of them. I'd be interested in reading or seeing real life educational implications.