Cherie Hayes Woods's Page

Hi Cherie,

With yourwork in online learning, 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. By the way I graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1989. That year emails were new and I had to use UH's UNIX system to email my professors.

Hi Cherie,

My name is Alyshia Olsen; 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. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, 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, 2009, 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 a competition for startup funding 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 at 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,

Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

Hi Cherie, I found your page through Jose's page!
Isn't it interesting how web 2.0 apps are being used in language teaching and learning? Have you seen the work of Ray Kurzweil?
he invented the first digital synthesizer in the 1980's with Stevie Wonder - and now works with AI, especially in the area of language recognition and translation.
anyway - it would be great to be your friend,
Cheers,
Gavin

Hope you and your family are safe with the weather changes going out there. Thinking of you!

Hi Cherie

What age range do you teach? This year, I will be teaching Y9 ( 13-14 years old, 3rd year of Spanish) and Y11 (15-16 years old, 5th year of Spanish). Maybe we can swap ideas and resources...

Isabelle

LOL! Glad you agree about Moodle - here's the url of my Moodle if you fancy having a wander around it.... www.merapolis.co.uk