Introductions

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

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Permalink Reply by Kathy Cook on February 20, 2009 at 11:16am

Thank you, Nancy. I will give that a try.
K.

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Permalink Reply by Marge Arnold on February 20, 2009 at 11:48am

I'm Marge Arnold, soon to be a septuagenarian (in October), and still investigating Web 2.0. I live in northeast Louisiana and work as a grant writer/professional development facilitator.

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Permalink Reply by Dana on February 20, 2009 at 3:12pm

Hi everyone. I wanted to share a web 2.0 tool me (and my team) are working on called Wiggio.com.

Wiggio is a free, simple application that makes it easy to work in groups. We now have 60,000 students and teachers on Wiggio - they're using it for class project groups, study groups, and extracurricular groups, among others.

Wiggio lets your group keep a shared calendar (with automated reminders), share and edit files in a central folder, poll group members, send mass emails, text messages and voicemails, setup web meetings and free conference calls, and more. Our goal is to keep the functionality very simple so that even the least tech-savvy group members can easily get on and start working with the group. Anyway, if you get a few minutes, Wiggio is completely free-to-use and I'd love to hear what you think.

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Dutton on February 20, 2009 at 4:01pm

Hi, I'm new here - but old to Web 2 (well, as old as you can get with Web 2). I'm based in Manchester (UK), where I teach in a primary school. Keen on deploying Web 2 ideas and techniques as much as possible. I heard about this community via twitter messages. It seems a great idea - My second passion (after ICT) is Mathematics. So my ideal day is to combine the two, luckily, the children I work with share that passion (well, they do now)!

My only real 'claim to (limited) fame' outside of my network of teachers is a social website I have set up to help offer information/support/ideas to my colleagues - social bookmarking for teachers/educators (http://www.uticked.com).

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Permalink Reply by Wendy Smith on February 20, 2009 at 8:24pm

Hello, or Hola a todos. Wendy Cotta from Providence, RI. I worked for 9 years in public education as a high school Spanish teacher teaching 100-130 students across 5 sections a day. Still teaching Spanish but now, I am at a small, private laptop school, teaching 30 students a day across 4 sections. I have a Master's in Tech Integration but never had the tech tools to play with in the public schools. So many obstacles. I was not learning or growing so I had to change. Maybe I will go back someday. Anyhow, the sky is the limit now. I am waking up, profesionally-speaking. I would love to find a small, private partner school in a Spanish-speaking country to collaborate with. I only have about 6 (age 16-17 years old) students in my advanced Sp. 4/5 section, 19 students ( age 15-16 years old) in my Sp. 3 section. Our school has video conferencing capability, though we would have to correct for time zone issues. Skype or simple epal-type exchanges would also be terrific.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Baird on February 21, 2009 at 10:26am

Hi Wendy, I'm a German teacher from Indiana working in a public school. We have some technology available to us. I would love to know what you are doing differently, i.e. tech-wise with your Spanish students that you weren't able to do in your public school. I want to use more technology with my students but I need ideas from other language teachers. ¡Gracias!

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Permalink Reply by Liz Kuhns on February 20, 2009 at 10:38pm

I am Liz. I teach in Virginia and have taught English for 20 years. I am happy to be teaching in a strong Web 2.0/technolgy-enlightened school district!!

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Devine on February 21, 2009 at 11:22am

I'm Nancy Devine. I teach high school English in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where I live with my husband Chuck and our two dogs. I co-direct the Red River Valley Writing Project, a local site of the National Writing Project. I write poetry, short fiction and essays. My work has appeared in online and print journals. I blog at nancydevine.blogspot.
I'm excited to be here.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Baird on February 23, 2009 at 6:39pm

Welcome Susan! I'm a German teacher in Indiana. To get more technology in my classrooms I use Moodle for some practice quizzes and real quizzes. I just had my German 1 students create a poster on Glogster about someone they admire. The info had to be all in German (basic introduction info) and then they presented that information orally to the class. German 2 and 3 did wikis on books that they read. If you have specific questions, let me know. I'm far from an expert on using technology in the classroom. That's why I'm on this site! However, I am willing to share whatever I know.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Llewellyn on March 1, 2009 at 4:42pm

Salut Susan- one option would be our online community- Rafi.ki. You could use it to safely communicate and take part in projects with French-speakers from around the world. We have schools from 103 countries and a lot from Francophone Africa. Also it's totally free for schools from the US. Have a look at my profile for a bit more info.

Hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by Carey Dincauze on February 23, 2009 at 9:53am

Hello! I am a 7th grade English teacher in a K-12 private school in Nashville, TN. I am looking forward to being part of a professional community.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bosch on February 23, 2009 at 5:17pm

If you are serious about this you might post it as a discussion on the front page. More people will see it. You might also post a a ning called VidSnacks.