Shaun Fletcher's Page

Hi Shaun -- I'd like to invite you to join a Classroom 2.0 group called Canadians Mashup. I'm trying to build a network of Canadian educators and bloggers. No discussions yet. I'm just starting out by trying to find where everyone lives and what they teach. If you're interested, please add me as a colleague as well.

If you add yourself to the map, please include a name or a photo of some sort. There seem to be a lot of unidentified people from unidentified places and the map is getting stuck on for some reason. The problem is that I can't tell from the members’ list which anonymous hits are real people and which were just false starts. The company does not differentiate members unless there is a picture or a name. Location only is not enough to help me know which entries are not real ones. THANKS!!!!

Hi,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com

Shaun,

Hi, this is Kevin. Hope your summer is going well and you had some time to relax.

I've started a new Ning network for Middle School Science Teachers and I thought you might like to join. I thought it would be really good to have just middle school science teachers share some of their labs, demos, concerns, what works and what doesn't about teaching this level. Also, having our own Ning network would be better and give us more flexibility than having a group.

Hope to see you there.

Thanks, Kevin

When responding to the cellular biology resource request, I noticed that you are a member here at Classroom2.0. I want to invite you to be a colleague/friend here also. When I joined, I used a cool avatar that some spammer stole(errrg!). At short notice, this was the only picture I had available, but I am the same person at Diigo who is your colleague/friend.

I have memories of what that kind of wait is like...hope it's not too hot in NB. I will thinking about you all and hoping gravity works its magic soon. :) I saw that you are on the list to use the Bugscope in the fall. Have you used it before? What a great opportunity. We'll talk later in June.

Hi Shaun,

My e-mail address is yuc148@psu.edu. Thank you.

Hi Shaun,

I am an educational researcher at Pennsylvania State University in the US. My colleagues and I are currently writing a book chapter about using Web2.0 technologies in the classroom. I came across your class blog (http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=84725&new_display_count=20)
last year when I was collecting information for writing the blog section. We thought your class blog is exemplary so we wrote a scenario illustrating how teachers can use class blogs for teaching based on your blog. We would like to ask your permission for doing so. In fact, we would love to share this scenario with you (perhaps you can provide us some feedback) before you consider granting permission to us. For the privacy issue, we would like to send the scenario to you via email. So if you would like to take a look at the scenario, please provide me with your email account and I can send it to you. Thank you. I am looking forward to your response.

Yu-hui Ching

Hi Shaun,
I really like the voicethread you and your students created on mental math strategies. I am sharing it as an exemplar with some colleagues who are new to vt. Thanks!

Hey Shaun,

Thanks again for that pbs link. I used it with my grade 5s and they loved it. Much appreciated.