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Comment by Aries Cobb 1 hour ago

Dear Dr. Oates,

Thank you. Would you be interested in facilitating a webinar in the spring, as well? I am sure that my graduate students will enjoy your expertise. I will check my calendar but I am sure that I can attend on of the webinars that you list. I look forward to working with you.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Aries Cobb

Comment by Dr. Rita Oates 8 hours ago

Hi, Aries,
If you "join" the ePals Global Community and contribute a profile (of your spring class), then you can come into the community and try to find another teacher ed class to collaborate with....or a K12 class if that is your wish. If you wanted to search for classrooms in other places with interactive video as well as web-based email, that would be awesome.
I'm doing some webinars to introduce the ePals global community and also SchoolMail....our free teacher-monitored email system.
Here are the times/dates of future ones:
(all Eastern Standard time)
3:15 p.m., Monday, Nov. 16
4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23
4:15 p.m. Wed., Dec. 2
3:15 p.m. Wed., Dec. 9
4:30 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 10

If you would want another date and time, please let me know!
Best, Rita

Comment by Aries Cobb on November 9, 2009 at 1:51am

Hello All!
My name is Aries Cobb and I am an Assistant Professor at Baldwin-Wallace College. In the Spring I will teach a course entitled EDU 518: Emerging On-line Classroom: Web-based Classroom and Interactive Video. I am looking for a K-12 classroom and or higher education course that would like to collaborate with us.

Comment by Annia braiser on November 5, 2009 at 2:50pm

I believe that the people who deny the concept of the distance learning as a viable source of learning must look into the numerous advantages it provides. In this age, when people are moving towards the technological advancements, online education is a very constructive step as online degree programs will generally provide more freedom to the students than traditional schools degree programs in terms of that online schools or colleges offer an online curriculum and give students the chance to work on their own from anywhere in the world, all they need is a computer and an internet connection.

More over due to the economic recession experienced through out the world and every day increment in the number of lay offs, the increased unemployment has diverted people back to education. Today education is all that counts, long gone the days when experience alone and many years of work in a field or company could somehow take you to the top of the ladder. That is why even employed people are seeking education through distance learning, so that they could get advance degrees while pursuing their jobs, to get promoted to higher posts in the organization they are working for

Comment by Bob Zenhausern on October 24, 2009 at 8:29am

I am Bob Zenhausern and I direct the Enabling Support Foundation, a non-profit with a dual mission to support persons with disability and K-12 education. We provide resources for both groups and services to teachers of K-12 students. We can help you develop projects using Internet resources. ESF never charges for its services.

Comment by Mary Pauline Carmelita Michael on October 24, 2009 at 8:18am

Hi! I am Mary , a primary school teacher teaching Tamil. I am proficient in both English and Tamil. I am in charge of the Media Resource Library in my school. I collaborate with the various departments in my school to run programmes for our pupils and staff. I also collaborate with the National Library Board of Singapore to promote reading schoolwide. As I am also a Competant Communicator in the Toastmaster's Club (District 80) I get trainers from the Toastmaster's clubs in Singapore to conduct 'Public Speaking Workshops' in English for my pupils. I now want to extend my collaboration beyond Singapore. Does anyone have any idea as to how I can do this? Please do let me know. God bless.

Comment by Dorian Love on September 10, 2009 at 3:08am

Hi! I have a group of twenty students (aged 15/16) in Johannesburg, South Africa studying English. We are setting up blogs based on reflection on the poetry/ideas covered during the year, and I would like to collaborate on an extension to this project perhaps involving chat. The students are all girls from three inner-city "disadvantaged" schools who attend an afternoon Academy at the private school where I teach ICTs. They thus have access to technology, but generally only between 13h00 GMT and 15h00 GMT on weekdays. E-mail exchanges are possible also. Anyone interested in this.

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Comment by Daniel Bassill on August 2, 2009 at 7:38am

This map was created using a Chicago tutor/mentor program locator which is a product of the non profit organization I lead in Chicago.

My aim is to help volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs grow in high poverty neighborhoods, in areas with poorly performing schools or with too much area violence.

I put the maps in blog stories, intended to draw volunteers and donors to the programs in different parts of the city.

I would like to encourage teachers and students to use the program locator as part of their own learning, and communications activities, in ways that create more stories and reach more volunteers and donors, so that tutor/mentor programs grow in more parts of Chicago.

It does not matter where you are located. Students in England could be writing about poverty in Chicago, and ways the maps can be used to point volunteers and donors to programs in different neighborhoods. They could be doing this with the purpose of motivating people in London to duplicate this strategy.

Students in inner city schools could be using the maps for the same purpose, to draw resources into their school or their neighborhood.

If any of you would like to take on such an activity, the Program Locator is free to use. If you share links to any work being done with the maps, you can illustrate to others what they might also do.

Comment by Jay Trevorrow on July 18, 2009 at 11:45am

Just joined this group as I am always on the look out for collaborations over distance among students in my position as Technology Director here in NYC. I work with colleagues across the spectrum of content areas in connecting their students with others. Finally, I try to keep my work real by teaching one section of Middle School English myself and include a couple of online connections each year in this course.

So, I am open to a varied number of approaches and projects if you wish to discuss ideas you have in mind. Our kids too have been very open to this method of learning and do a reasonably good job of articulating their experiences coming from this very diverse urban background. And.........they have come to appreciate what they learn from others, especially those who come from very different backgrounds and experiences.

We use any number of tools: Skype, IM, Moodle and such.

Jay

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