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Great class pics!! I know they enjoy the use of technology in the classroom.

Likewise Tina. I look forward to seeing you all!

Hi Ms. Coffey. I was wondering if you have students or educator friends who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

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. 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

tcoffey,

Hey, thanks. I do have a lot of things going on, but I love it.

Welcome from Pennsylvania. Nice site.

Thanks for your comments on my chatter about my paper blog idea. It has been really a good experience--I will be happy to have you run with the idea, too! I most recently tried to get a "troll" or two to comment and use the troll comments to start a discussion about trolls, cyberbullies, and real world bullies. And a K level student helped herself to a comment sheet and drew a lovely picture of me and posted it last week. I'll write up what I did and how it's worked out and what I'll do a bit differently for my own journal tomorrow--and I can send you a copy. Thanks again, Sue

Hi once more, thanks for compliments. You do a great job as well!
I travel a lot of time in Europe to meet partners as to Comenius (school partnership) and eTwinning (electronic partnership). I like the idea to team up with schools in the States too! Dont you?

Hi, you´ve got an interesting blog!
Greetings from Bavaria/Germany
Hans