Sandra Wozniak
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TregoED
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I just retired after 33 years of teaching at the Mt. Olive Middle School. There, I taught science for many years before I moved into a computer lab designed to integrate science, math, communications and technology. My courses included Intro to Tech, Synergistics, Robotics, and 21st Century Skills. Over the last few years my students and I have been working with the nonprofit TregoED.org developing a tool that will help kids learn critical thinking strategies while they are learning content. The website TregoED.org has a unique “new and improved” Web 2.0 tool called SCAN. The tool allows teachers to create a session (3 easy steps) to have their class work in-they are given a unique URL to use as a private venue with their class, students do not need to sign up, etc. There are over 100 authentic scenarios in the tool that have to do with current events, history, life skills, etc. OR teachers can create their own. I am excited to share this tool with teachers so that they can help their kids become better thinkers while covering content in an engaging discussion format-sort of like sneaking vegetables into their brownies.

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At 9:34pm on April 24, 2009, Jack said…
Hey Sandra,

Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

Do you mind telling students and your colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack
At 9:22am on January 3, 2009, Jack said…
Hi Sandra!

Happy New Year! I was wondering if you or your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to.

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
At 3:02am on December 27, 2008, Andy Pethan said…
Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin students (near Boston) who is taking a year off to pursue our interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, bringing us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school", 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:

We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. 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. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. 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 and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.

Our team 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. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.

Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!

Thanks,
Andy Pethan
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At 6:21pm on December 26, 2008, Mark Cruthers said…
Hi Sandra,

With your work in Communications and Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
 
 
 

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