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Hi Craig. I teach 4th grade near Topeka, KS. I'd love to pair up with a 4th grade class in your district to blog or work on a project. Let me know if you have anyone interested. jan.wells@usd340.org

Hi Craig. I was wondering if you have any high school contacts who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

Hi Craig,

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 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 have taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'connecting content and technology' 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 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 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

craig - seems like you and your students are an enthusiastic bunch. are you currently working on any projects that the kids might be interested in entering into the Studica Skills competitions?

Hi Craig, I added a voicethread to the Wiki. Wasn't sure exactly where to put it as it is collaborative work of students from America, England and Israel. Put it under your voicethread. Won't be insulted if you decide to move it somewhere else! Have a wonderful Christmas

Hi Craig, that's great, we'll definitely add some info about Hannuka - and Ramadan. You mention collaborating between the schools, what did you have in mind?
Susan

Hey Craig

Just realized that I haven't checked CR2.0 lately - you know how it goes in the world of education, esp. when you have a family!!!
Did you get any of the voicethreads we invited you to? I just found out last week that you're only allowed 3 free voicethreads before you hae to pay, so I have to work through all that right now before we send you some more. I have someone in California (I think - maybe Nevada) who;d like to join us on Teddy's whirlwind tour.

talk to you soon...........
Pete

Fantastic Craig... Prometheans are great boards ! .. we have a few at Greenbush - I'll have a new "Forest World" sim and another lesson uploaded tomorrow som time -- you can get all the sims and lessons at http://edusim3D.com -- we have MANY more lessons on the way ! Let us know if you have any ideas or want to build & share an Edusim lesson ! - the plan is to pay teachers to build lessons covering certain topics

Hi Craig,

Thanks for your interest in our voicethread project. If you'd like me to include you in our list of friends just email me direct at p.dawson@tvdsb.on.ca and I'll include you in our list of friends.

P.S. I see from the thread here that you have a contact from Dean. He's talked to me too - we could really let Ted get around Kansas!!!!
let me know ------ Pete