Larry Michaud's Page

Hey Larry. I'm not sure if you still check this group but I thought I would try. The Ontario Youtheatre group is planning a 50th Anniversary reunion next year and we are trying to track everyone down who took part. I ran into Gabe Ferrazzo recently who told me you were in Dubai. Google is a marvelous thing! Hope to hear from you. All the best, Barb

Hi Larry,

My name is Alyshia Olsen; 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. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, 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, 2009, 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 a competition for startup funding 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.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

Hi Larry,
So CR 2.0 does work in UAE!
How is life back in Dubai?

hi Larry,
I read your comment about the filtering in UAE with muych disappointment as I was hoping to use Classroom 2.0 there.
My gmail email is:
gavin.mclean3@gmail.com
I'm hoping I can saty in touch!
Cheers,
Gavin

hi Larry,
yep, just starting, should be there about the 4th August.
I plan to keep my classroom2.0 page going.
I have a blog at:
http://globalmantra.blogspot.com
Cheers,
Gavin

Hi Larry,
I am leaving shortly to teach teachers about ICT in education in Al Ain. I arrive about August 4th, all very exciting.
It would be nice to have a friend in Dubai!
I stayed in Ottawa in 1976 as a teenager when my brother rowed for New Zealand in the Olympics at Montreal.
We caught the bus each day to Montreal, about 2 hours away.
I am a big fan of Daniel Lanois - I think he's Canadian?? LOL