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Hi,

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. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, 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, 2008, 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

Oh OK, Nicki Depree - maybe we can get together over there.
Doyou know who she is working for?

Let me guess....RR? LOL

ICT Advisor,
Why who do you know that is going?

Hi Kate,
Did you hear I'm off to United Arab Emirates?
I'm going to be based in Al Ain which is an Oasis.
There is a really big camel markeet there, so maybe I could bring you one back, but I'm not sure if they will let me bring it through customs! LOL, keep an eye on my blogs, I'll be documenting the big adventure..cheers, Gavin

Hi Kate, my greetings from Germany. I focus on Web 2.0 apps as to education. Feel free to check some of my sites.
And I´ve created the biggest group on Classroom 2.0 about digital teaching methods called DigiSkills with now 324 members. Would love if you decide to join.
Additonally I´ve created a group for this members on Diigo in order to share our bookmarks.
Hans

Welcome to Classroom 2.0. I'm sure you will find the forums and groups worth joining.
Happy exploring,
Helen

Hey Kate!
I Love your theme!
I hope you'll be my friend.
Talk to you soon. G