Steve Hargadon's Comments

Steve, I noticed that you are connected with k12computers.com. I am interested in hosting their ads on my site. Could you give me any details?

Hi Steve,

Thank you for the welcome. I will follow your advise and I look forward to collaborating with you all!

Steve

I am really interested in trying to find out how to create pages in the top tab bar like you have. Can't figure it out depsite looking all around the fatures and settings aspects of NING. Any advice? Thanks

Hi Steve, I used a podcast program to produce my audio/podcast called "Propaganda" I was thinking about reproduction in "audacity" or "garageband" to see if the issue followed the software. Keep me posted if you have a fix, as I will you. Outside of Ning the audio works fine so I think the issue might be server side.

hi Steve, the next round of blog posts for that class has shown up... it just doesn't seem like a good idea for them to use this ning as their blogging tool: maybe you could let the teacher know how she can have her own ning? I know that it's possible for a teacher to do that pretty easily, since my husband got excited about this whole ning thing and set up one for an online class he is teaching; his verdict was that it was way easier than he thought it would be. :-)

Steve,

Thank you for the support! I plan to share your insights into how to search for information within networks using tags.... this is important for them to understand. Also, please let me know if you find the comment you left for the student in regards to search versus social networks. I would like to share that in class as well.

Yes experimenting with collaborative technologies has been very interesting. I love this stuff! I am still learning, but I am passionate about collaboration and understand the power.

Getting students to engage and to truly expereience the power is something that I am still trying to perfect. I have several students that are getting it... many are not...

Jim


Jim

hi Steve, re: the bloggers- it was interesting but definitely strange... and for sure it must be strange for the students, too, since their stuff is in the middle of all this stuff which is definitely NOT what they are looking for in a social networking world...
to be honest, it was a kind of scary reminder reading those posts (I read all of them out of sheer curiosity) of why I quit teaching high school - it is really hard for me to see that we lock students up in school for years and years, literally YEARS of their lives, and they still end up so profoundly alienated from the world of writing. eegad, what a huge task we have in front of us... I had students in my senior high school English class who were reading at the third and fourth-grade level and I just couldn't handle it. all I could think about was how much time of that young person's life must have been wasted in meaningless, totally meaningless, "educational" activities if they were seniors in high school and barely able to read. I freaked, and went to grad school instead. so I teach writing intensive courses now, but college level and i still think back on my high school teaching as a very abject failure...

Steve,
Yes several of my students noted that you had responded to their posts. Thank you for being so kind and generous with you time. They appreciated it.

Thank you for sharing the code - I will give it a try.

I hope we didn't cause any problems by posting to the network... I have saved your post (about looking for similar threads first) I will provide that information to them directly in class.

Best regards,

Jim

Steve,
I would like to add the standardized tagging tool (list and search tool) to another Ning site. It is a Ning site that I started for my teacher licensure students @ Colorado State University called wisdomofstudents. Can you give me some direction on how to do this?

Thanks,

Jim

Thanks Steve. Will do!

Steve, if you have a moment, I'd like to pick your brain about adding content to the network. I've started one and would like to add some of the same things you have. Thanks.
Kelly

Steve, I love this site and it has been a very valuable resource for me! Thank you for what has been a great piece of daily mental and professional development fro me!

Steve, I tried to respond to your "2000th member e-mail" but it kicked back. Anyways, I wanted to thank you for all of your great work with Classroom 2.0 as well as for your excellent Ed-tech live podcasts. I have just started blogging about some of my modest Web 2.0 initiatives at http://borderlessteaching.blogspot.com/, and I have a class blog at http://nlcommunities.com/communities/learnspanish (that is getting a summertime clean-up/restructuring right now). Anyhow, I would be happy to have you use any of my stuff in your article. Thanks again for all of your work.

Thanks for taking the time to talk to us here in Nashville, Steve! Great site you've got here, and a really good "interview" today. Good stuff!!

Thanks again,
Joel B.
University School of Nashville

Great site Steve - let's drag teachers kicking and screaming into the 21st Century :-)

Easy to configure and potentially a very powerful resource. I've passed the word around, so hopefully more Aussies will jump on board.

Cheers
JImbo

I am teaching a computer class at a small private school and there are no books to help me. I need to teach kids K-8th grade and I really don't know where to start. We are running office 2000 on pentium 3 and lower computers. they are slow. So we are also looking for new computers free or cheap p4 or better. Can anyone help?

Thanks for your comments on my forum posting. I'm not sure how you do it with all the projects you are involved in, but you are doing a really nice job of making of a new kid like me feel welcome.

Hi Steve,
Just saw your SL video. Laughed till I cried! Having just started really playing around there, I find myself doing all those things. Funny stuff!

Great initiative Steve! Thanks -- I can see this coming in very useful in the months ahead. I've just opened a ning account to see if I can use it with my students (games and digital arts) as a central point for posting exercises and their own work and interacting with each other-- RMIT uses Blackboard as a cms -- but it completely sucks! Far too limited -- and ugly -- for the students to get excited about, whilst this seems to have far more functionality. I've got some great ideas from your network that I hope to try out with them -- and hopefully feedback into the general discourse.