David Kapuler's Comments

David,

Thanks for the "plug." Your blog looks good. I wanted to leave a comment, though, but it didn't appear that was possible.

Larry

David, many thanks for the compliment and review. You're very kind! I also appreciate seeing blogs of others! Best of luck to you!

Thanks, David. I'm still fairly new to blogging.

Hi David,
After a long hiatus from this site, I'm back. Thanks for the friendly welcome message! My roommate and fellow librarian is also from Arlington Heights, so small world indeed! If I have any questions about running a media center in the Chicago burbs, I'll be sure to shoot them your way!

Katrina

David,

It looks good, though I wish they had a way you could hear the audio while you were online and saw the words...

Larry

Hey David,

Thanks for the comment! I'll keep you posted!
Safety concerns are something that we've been hearing over and over again. I haven't heard of gaggle.net - I'll pass it on to my colleagues and we'll see if we can do something similar to make sure everything is filtered.

Thanks again,

Alyshia
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

Hi David,

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 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 'connecting content and technology' 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 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.

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

Thanks,

Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't seen the article yet! :)

:) :) Thanks David for your nice words on the blog (hope you liked it so much to cast a vote! ;) )
Entonces, hablas español? :)
Greetings from Valencia.

thanks

Yeah-moving up North-don't think its in my cards :-). It is a small world, thanks for sending those other links. I checked out the ustream-for my group too much extra stuff for them to get into. I am going to try downloading the Google video conference to see if that works a little better. Its more with the connection from us to their school because I tried the w/i building one laptop to the other and it was night and day difference. Sound quality had no delays, video image was so nice. But my class looks forward to the next time they work with Melissa's class. We're thinking of our next collab. piece now. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Hi David,

With Grendale School District's online initiatives I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's web based virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. So far these two web platforms havn't been screened or banned by learning institutions.

Hey!
Collaborating with Jen's class has been awesome this year! The collaborative writing on Google Docs was very successful. We're both working with our classes to create mathcasts using voicethread (I'm a bit behind). We've tried a virtual book chat using Skype, but we're trying to iron out the kinks before we try it again! It's been such a great learning experience. I know my kids look forward to meeting them face to face!

I sure will pass that along to Peggy. I have only been on here probably since late Summer. That's fine if you use the iWeb. I have so much fun creating on there. I just updated it a little bit for December. I am currently creating a webquest on the Sun,Moon, & Earth using iWeb and am hoping to link that to my current iWeb page. I am really liking the way it is turning out. My goal is to get the kids to create their own pages that contains pieces of work throughout the year. Its a big goal, but its something I know this group would really like. I am doing a "Paperless Day" on Dec. 17th and can't wait to see how this goes. I have some "experts" Skyping in (as long as the dates still work for them I'll have an author and a scientist from Adler). But will def. have to bounce ideas back and forth and I am always up for trying things. I know everyone would be happy to see a visit from ya.

A very interesting site. Definitely appropriate for beginner readers. I am thinking also students could make their own for vocabulary exercises, in foreign language classes, and maybe even to quiz in content areas. EX: 3rd grade science unit on habitats...question: cacti live in the...dessert.

Have I thanked you yet for keeping me in the back of your mind and passing on the goods when you come across them...THANK YOU!!!

Thanks for checking out the web site and blog. Eventually I will get back to updating that blog!! (It's all in my head ready to be posted...)

Sadly, I don't have it like that with my tech director. I send my request to my principal for approval who sends it to the tech director who unlocks it...sometimes. I'll find away around it though! Thnx -L

I get in trouble enough as it is. ; ) What do you mean "white list" the site? Sounds intriguing....! Please tell me more.

Have a great day!

DAvid, thanks for the http://www.videosurf.com/ site. I have been using the studio4learning but my school's filters won't allow the video to show. I am thinking a way around that would be to embed the video in a wiki or something. Gotta get past those blocks! - Leslie