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What does your district use for blogging?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Melissa Benson Sep 8, 2008. 38 Replies 0 Likes

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School / Work Affiliation: Bloomington Public Schools

Blog: http://www.melbenson.com/blog

Website: http://www.melbenson.com

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: Twitter: mebenson / Delicious: mebenson / Pownce: mebenson

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TICT Tech Support in the Osseo School District. I'm currently working with Moodle this summer. I'm also playing and coaching soccer.

I graduated from college in 2007 with a Computer Information Systems degree. I never thought I would be working in a school district but I love it! I'm a computer geek and love technology but I also love sports and working out, reading, music and just relaxing : )

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"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet using technologies that haven’t yet been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet."

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I heart Google.

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At 12:22pm on January 6, 2010, Miguel Guhlin said…: Howdy! How can I verify--from Google--that there is no cost for 60K plus users in a public school district setting? Thanks so much for your response and feedback!

At 9:58pm on May 24, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Melissa,

With your work in Technology for you school district, 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. Wiziq also as a Moodle plug in that lets you go directly into its virtual classroom from Moodle.

Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.

Integrating Technology into the Classroom Using Moodle and Wikis by Nellie Deutsch

Get your own Virtual Classroom

At 3:30pm on February 6, 2009, Obe Hostetter said…: I see you use SMARTBoards in your school system. Check out the SMARTBoard Revolution Ning at http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com for lots of tips, ideas, files, websites and Notebook 10 training files for Windows or MAC.

At 7:34pm on January 1, 2009, Jack said…: Hi Melissa!

Happy New Year! I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from Minnesota!

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 4:45pm on July 27, 2008, Gavin McLean said…: That should be:
http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=668077&T=291

At 4:44pm on July 27, 2008, Gavin McLean said…: Hi Melissa,
I use Sony ACID pro for most of my stuff these days as its so fluid and intuitive to work with.

I have started posting some tracks at Acidplanet.com

cya,
Gavin

At 4:52pm on July 24, 2008, Gavin McLean said…: Nice page Melissa,
Great Quote.
I want to add a quote to my page now!
I added your blog RSS to my blog:
http://globalmantra.blogspot.com
welcome to Classroom 2.0.

cya,
Gavin

At 8:25pm on July 19, 2008, Anne Mirtschin said…: That is so true about the colleagues teaching you and then you get to a stage where the students are actually teaching you as well.

At 4:32pm on July 19, 2008, Anne Mirtschin said…: Hello Melissa and welcome here. I love all your comments in your introduction as they are my sentiments as well. However, once staff see the wonderful benefits of web2.0, they gradually start to come on board as well.