Introductions

Please introduce yourself, let us know a little bit about you, and where you are from.

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Permalink Reply by elise.montgomery on January 24, 2008 at 9:18pm

Hi, my name is Elise and I teach 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Latin in Alabama. This is my first year teaching full time. And I am interested in learning effective ways to integrate things like blogs, wikis, etc. in my classroom.

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Permalink Reply by Rong on January 25, 2008 at 6:17pm

Hi, everyone! I’m a graduate student at Pace University. My name is Xiaolan Rong, just call me Rong.

I have been an English teacher in China for seven years before I came here. The course Audio-visual English I composed for English major juniors in 2001 makes me interested in Educational Technology.

Look forward to sharing ideas with you all.

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Permalink Reply by jcalvert on January 27, 2008 at 5:07pm

Hi Rong, welcome to c2.0! You may be interested in joining one of the video groups: http://classroom20.ning.com/groups/group/search?q=video

Your diverse perspective will be an interesting contribution to the conversation! Welcome again.

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Permalink Reply by Sue Wyatt on January 26, 2008 at 2:31pm

G'day everyone. Sue Wyatt from Tasmania, Australia. I'm a middle school teacher hoping to introduce some more Web 2.0 into my classroom this year. Would like to use blogging, wikis and get good use out of the smartboard which will be set up permanently in my room,

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 26, 2008 at 5:42pm

Sue, let me know if you would like to introduce blogging to your students by having them comment on my students blog posts. My kids (5th-6th) would be thrilled. You can see out blog here. Start at Recent Posts.

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Permalink Reply by Sue Wyatt on January 26, 2008 at 7:03pm

Nancy, thanks so much for the invite. My students won't be back at school till mid-February and by the time I teach some safety rules etc and make sure they all have an email address, it will probably be March before we do any serious blogging. I notice yours is with edublogs, like mine. How did you get the students with a blog page each? My blog

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 26, 2008 at 8:38pm

We don't use edublogs, one of my student's dad built the site using Drupal and he serves it on his server. We'll be in school until the end of May so let me know if you want to join us.

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Permalink Reply by Sue Wyatt on January 26, 2008 at 10:09pm

OK sorry about that, but I am sure I will get back to you regarding the students blogging and using wikis. After looking at your wiki related to the CSI - cemetery investigation - I think I might be able to do something similar with our community for the students to work on.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on January 27, 2008 at 2:58pm

Sue, Here's the final project. http://connections.smsd.org/csi

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Permalink Reply by Kristen Fouss on January 26, 2008 at 8:28pm

Hi, I'm Kristen Fouss, a math teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm part of a tablet project in my district - a lucky few were issued tablets, wireless projector, and speakers, and have been led on an exploration of what can be possible. I've learned so much already this year and I know so much more is possible! I'm looking forward to finding out how to best use this technology that we have at our fingertips.