Brian's Comments

sorry Brian but I don't have any kids this year! I am on Sabbatical and busy learning new stuff BTW I am going to China in April (holiday) so I love your picture!

Tech facilitator at the shanghai american school for the elementary school on the Puxi campus. Big change after almost a decade of living in latin america...but change is good.

Thanks for the welcome Brian. There's great cycling routes here in Ireland (but sadly not great weather!)

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your last message on my page. If you like France and Europe, and even you don't speak french, you can join us in the School Beyond the Walls http://horslesmurs.ning.com . Or you can help us to join teachers of your school speaking french to suggest them to develop intercultural web 2.0 projects with us,

Have a nice day !

Thanks for the welcome, Brian!

Hey Brian,

Technology in Alaska is a lot like technology in the rest of the country. We have some schools and districts that are cutting edge (video podcast news reports, distance learning via video conferencing, Web 2.0 projects, etc.) and we have districts that are focusing on bricks and mortar, real time, face to face education. What we do have in Alaska is long distances, few roads and expensive transportation and telecommunications. It makes every technology decision an economic decision!

Cheers,
-Craig-

XD What I saw? Is it Great Wall？Thanks for your welcome. I am from China and now in Japan. Welcome to China and Japan.

Seasons Greetings]
J

Brian,

Yes, Korea can be fascinating....seems you would know having been in China! One day I'm going to run that great wall (my other passion - running).

Yes, there are lots of classrooms/teachers who'd benefit from classroom sharing/collaboration. I started a Classroom Connect page on my own ning http://eflclassroom.ning.com You are welcome to post there and / or just post on the main forum. Thousands of teachers use the site daily....

but if you tell me what kind of collaboration, age/level etc... you'd like to collaborate with, I'm sure I also could come up with some names.......

Cheers,

David

PS> I don't know the show "Chuck" I'll have to check it out..:)

Hi Brian

With ALISON we have a global audience and hope to be the number one portal for interactive courseware worldwide. We work with allot of global NGOs to deliver training and education in basic and essential skills

Brian, I didn't realize that I was famous! What a nice thing to hear!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving me a message. :-)

Send me the teacher's name and the names of students who want to blog and I'll set up accounts. Let's start with just a few kids. nbosch@aol.com

Cheers for the comment. I am the Learner Outreach & Development Manager for ALISON, http://alison,com which is a free to access global learning platform of interactive courses online. Any feedback you could provide about ALISON would be great.

Thanks for the comment on my blog.

Hey Brian-

Thanks for dropping the comment on my wall...let me know if I can be of any assistance in planning for your presentation or during your presentation (skype me in and do a little Q/A...I did this at a PD experience with some other teacher and an author as a way to show teachers the power of connecting via skype). We made a wiki for this PD experience and it can be found here: http://msprofessionaldevelopment.wikispaces.com/

Cheers!

Matt

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the comments - I've fixed the problem with posting them now. I jut checked out your blog - it looks like you've had a good time in China. I've had a great few years here, I really love teaching Chinese people. My students are Korean now, which is also fun. What sort of program were you teaching on here?

Hey Brian
You are a popular guy. See, I told you I was a member. I will try to be more visible.

Hi Brian
The use of acronyms can be such a pain.
ICT - Information & Communication Technologies.
TRT - in South Australia, is a Temporary Relief Teacher. This is a teacher who can be phoned by a school to help cover the absence of a teacher due to illness, away at a conference,etc. So... TRT in the States is ??
The power of these networking tools certainly makes it easier to share our knowledge but you have to be careful about these rumours your colleague is hearing!! (lol)
Keeping up with the breadth of innovations in technology is very challenging so I don't see myself as being ahead of the technology curve.

I just teach... at the American School... you know, it's like any old American school except it has lots of money and the students all like to work hard and learn... Just kidding, I'm sure lots of American schools are like that, but this one's just really high level. We have students from about 50 countries, although about half are American... over 3000 students K-12, Shanghai's a real international City these days, and it just keeps growing. This school hires about 80 new teachers a year, and the salary and benefits just keep improving since it's harder and harder to find teachers to fill all our openings! We employ 370 teachers right now, will be 400 next year (with about 40 or so leaving, that means 70 or 80 new jobs!) You should look into it, if you like being overseas, that is.