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Permalink Reply by Mary Astorino on February 24, 2010 at 8:09am

Hi Sue
Thanks for the invitation to join the Canadian Mashup. Great way to connect with other educators. I am an Educational Technology Consultant working at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, NB. I am learning as much as I possibly can about Web 2.0 technology and am finding Nings to be so versatile and useful. I have just started my own Ning for the upcoming Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) conference that is being held here in Saint John this May. If you would like to, you can check it out at
http://cnie2010.ning.com.

Cheers - Mary

Permalink Reply by Nicole Painchaud on April 5, 2010 at 8:10pm

Hi Darren:

Would love to join your group if I may. One of your other colleagues suggested it. I'm originally from Winnipeg myself. Moved to BC 17 years ago when there was still snow on the ground in May, both my husband and I said, that's it, we're moving. Been happy ever since.

I currently work at Sullivan Heights Secondary in Surrey, British Columbia. I have been teacher for more then 25 years in total, some in elementary schools, but mostly with the secondary schools. Most of my career I have been a computer facilitator at the schools. My position not only includes teaching as many students as I can to use and enjoy technology but also try to teach other teachers how to use technology as well. I enjoy this task immensely.

My present school has 4 labs of computers (two macs labs and two PC labs), 3 COWs (computers on wheels) and each classroom has a computer in the classroom as well. The use of technology in some form is high in our school as well as our district. Wireless networking has been set up in the high schools, and students are now able to add the personal computers to the network (as a limited guest). So you can imagine our network and the repairs, maintenance and training for all this technology is quite a full load. That's my position.

As a teacher I have a Bachelor's Degree in Business Education, an undergraduate degree in implementing technology in education, and a Masters degree in Arts in Distance Learning. I teach Grade 8 - 12 students Information Technology and teach the students straight Web 2.0 tools for usage by students in their other classrooms. Students get rewarded for teaching other students or their other teachers these new tools. Teachers are willing to use the tools with projects in classroom with my help and the help of students that know the programs. The Grade 12 students create web sites for other teachers when learning web site designing. All together, a lot of technology and programs are used in our school. Between that and organizing all the blogs, websites, wikies, etc together, I'm hoping to give easy access to people in my district most of the material I've made, and share what I've learnt.

Hope to hear more from you and share some of your ideas and fellow canadians in this group. Take care all.

Nicole Painchaud
Surrey, BC

Permalink Reply by Leigh Whitford on May 24, 2010 at 2:09pm

Hello,

Leigh Whitford, here. I teach a Grade 6 French Immersion class in Edmonton, Alberta.

Permalink Reply by Dorothy Taker on May 25, 2010 at 4:44am

Hi! My name is Dorothy Taker and I am a split gr. 3 & 4 teacher on the Magdalen Islands (Quebec). I am very interested in communicating with other teachers from across Canada and around the world.

Permalink Reply by Janet Bell on September 5, 2010 at 7:49pm

Thanks to Sue for the invitation - I am currently working with colleagues in Edmonton's newest high school, Lillian Osborne - would love to connect re: projects...especially interested in connecting with anyone with IB World Literature expertise.
Janet Bell in Edmonton

Permalink Reply by Jane Henderson on September 7, 2010 at 4:07am

Thanks! My name is Jane Henderson. I am the Elementary Educational Technology coordinator for the Near North DSB. I live in Parry Sound, ON. My blog is called Cool Scoolz - I write about interesting and innovative teachers/projects in our board.

Permalink Reply by Malcolm Oldcorn on October 2, 2010 at 9:12pm

Hi Darren and Sue,

Thanks for the invite!

Brand new to Classroom 2.0, but it doesn't take long to get one excited at the possibilities. Darren has previously inspired me to jump into the world of blogging in the classroom, so it is nice to see you here as well. (I hope the new school year is off to a grand start!)

I live and teach Grade 8 E.L.A. and Math in Virden, MB. I'd be interested in connecting with other Grade 8 classrooms from around the country.

My class blog is called Mr. O's World.

Permalink Reply by ddeubel on May 3, 2012 at 5:31pm

Hi Everyone,

Good to meet some fellow Canucks. I'm a professor of education at the Schulich School of Education in North Bay, Ont.  World traveler and teacher, specialty is TESOL/TESL and busy building a website for English language learners (building the LMS is the hard part!), EnglishCentral.   I also have a big community like this one for EFL teachers - EFL Classroom 2.0. 

Look forward to reading and connecting here and seeing how others are integrating tech in their classrooms. My big interest these days is the use of video in education. 

Cheers,

David 

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