Hi Helen,
You were truely inspirational and i did get a lot out of your presentation so was more than happy to leave a good comment. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction you have filled the void with your knowledge and i am truely grateful for your journey and for sharing it. I am now on my own journey similar to yours but at least i have been lucky enough to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks again. Katy
At 11:58am on December 30, 2008, Alyshia Olsen said…
Hi Helen,
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!
Helen, I didn't realize we weren't colleagues on CR2.0, and I appreciate you adding me to your friends. Your classroom pics look so inviting. I love your dog.
Hi Helen,
i'm a will be teacher from Nigeria,hoping to commence work by September.
Can i send you an invite?
i have been making preparations for my new career as a teacher,I'm very much interested in learning more on intergrating IT into the classroom, as a young teacher, i would love to bring out the best in my students!
I am from Ghana and I'm just here to learn, contribute as well as link up with like-minded people who will be willing to share their experiences as well as help in spreading the concept of distance learning and adult education to Africa, which lags behind as far as education is concerned. My company has developed a television program called 'ADULTS IN EDUCATION' which is used in teaching,especially adults, how to read and write as well as general tips on how to take care of oneself. We also treat social issues as well. Television is still the widest means of disseminating information here in Ghana
Thanks for the welcome. Great to see and hear what others are doing and have time to jump into the sandpit and play. I hope to do more of this especially after reading your fab page you have inspired me to spend a little more time playing . Thanks for the inspiration. Clare :)
Hello Helen, I really liked your session and personal input yesterday. I was plagued with so many online problems today that I had trouble giving people moderator priveleges in the live blog. However, I thought the conference was excellent and it is great that the dept can now see the power of the web with the global presence that were in the elluminate room.
Hi Helen,
Thanks for the welcome. It is great to see teachers in touvh with the kids in their classrooms. This year has been an immense learning journey so far.
Would love to hear about some of your projects using web2.0
Thanks Helen
Have already registered for the on-line conference and am currently organising the College e-learning team to do so. I am currently working my ways through Technology Toolkit. We are currently supporting some staff groups to work with blogs with their students and so I would ne interested in linking them with other secondary schools working with blogging and wikis.
I am very new to this. I am trying to learn the web 2.0 but it is taking some time. I need to connect with someone to advise me on where to start. I am a principal of a high school and I am working to get my teachers to use these things and to create global collaborations between my students,teachers,myself and others. Can you help?
I am looking for teaching practices in using Web 2.0. I am a professor of Natural Sciences, working with young people from 17 to 24 years in Brazil. I hope I can contribute and get good experience here in the Classroom 2.0.
Thank you very much.
Hi Helen-
Thanks for the warm greeting from across the ocean! I'm really excited to see what people are doing and finding ways to get my kids out there and connected, while learning at the same time. Looking forward to learning a lot myself!
Julie
Hi Helen. It's nice to be welcomed so warmly by a fellow Aussie - so thankyou!
I took the leap into blogging with my class (Yr 2's that I brought up from Yr 1) 18 months ago- and it's been an amazing journey! The kids, as young as they are, have really embraced Web2.0 tools as a way of sharing and reflecting on their learning and engaging in conversations - both local and global. The learning curve for us all has been huge and I've spent every spare minute reading blogs, listening to/watching podcasts/webcasts and playing with the tools (I can certainly relate to your 'PD during the Holidays' post). As an 'early adopter' in my context, I've certainly needed to draw on a PLN many times in the last year but haven't felt qualified to add my voice to the conversation - as silly as that seems from a teacher who is encouraging her class to do just that!
However, after spending 'all' of my holidays following the events at NECC08, I've decided the time has come to take another leap - so I've started to twitter and I've joined this community! I'm looking forward to the conversations and learning ahead.
Amanda
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You were truely inspirational and i did get a lot out of your presentation so was more than happy to leave a good comment. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction you have filled the void with your knowledge and i am truely grateful for your journey and for sharing it. I am now on my own journey similar to yours but at least i have been lucky enough to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks again. Katy
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
Yeah, saw that, thanks for highlighting it though.
Good to be part of the group! Cheers Tim.
Congrats!
Hugs
Hans
I am still taking my time to browse through your page,would you mind telling me how long you have been teaching?
i'm a will be teacher from Nigeria,hoping to commence work by September.
Can i send you an invite?
i have been making preparations for my new career as a teacher,I'm very much interested in learning more on intergrating IT into the classroom, as a young teacher, i would love to bring out the best in my students!
Thanks for the welcome. Great to see and hear what others are doing and have time to jump into the sandpit and play. I hope to do more of this especially after reading your fab page you have inspired me to spend a little more time playing . Thanks for the inspiration. Clare :)
Thanks for the welcome. It is great to see teachers in touvh with the kids in their classrooms. This year has been an immense learning journey so far.
Would love to hear about some of your projects using web2.0
Have already registered for the on-line conference and am currently organising the College e-learning team to do so. I am currently working my ways through Technology Toolkit. We are currently supporting some staff groups to work with blogs with their students and so I would ne interested in linking them with other secondary schools working with blogging and wikis.
I am looking for teaching practices in using Web 2.0. I am a professor of Natural Sciences, working with young people from 17 to 24 years in Brazil. I hope I can contribute and get good experience here in the Classroom 2.0.
Thank you very much.
Francisco
Thanks for the warm greeting from across the ocean! I'm really excited to see what people are doing and finding ways to get my kids out there and connected, while learning at the same time. Looking forward to learning a lot myself!
Julie
I took the leap into blogging with my class (Yr 2's that I brought up from Yr 1) 18 months ago- and it's been an amazing journey! The kids, as young as they are, have really embraced Web2.0 tools as a way of sharing and reflecting on their learning and engaging in conversations - both local and global. The learning curve for us all has been huge and I've spent every spare minute reading blogs, listening to/watching podcasts/webcasts and playing with the tools (I can certainly relate to your 'PD during the Holidays' post). As an 'early adopter' in my context, I've certainly needed to draw on a PLN many times in the last year but haven't felt qualified to add my voice to the conversation - as silly as that seems from a teacher who is encouraging her class to do just that!
However, after spending 'all' of my holidays following the events at NECC08, I've decided the time has come to take another leap - so I've started to twitter and I've joined this community! I'm looking forward to the conversations and learning ahead.
Amanda
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