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Hi gmmiller. I was wondering if your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some other educator contacts you could direct me to. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. 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 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 '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

Hey, thanks for the comment. I love my instructional design (ed tech) master's program. It's exactly what I've been looking for (I looked at/tried out different master's programs for about four years before deciding on this one). I started out in an educational leadership M.Ed. program, but it just wasn't what I wanted to learn. I am in a completely online program through a major university and I absolutely love it.

I say go for it! I'm pleased that what I learn in my master's program is not only helpful to me in my K-12 classroom role now, but I can also use it to expand to other training/educational roles later on in my life. It's very versatile.

Thanks for the comment...and yes, it is I...the Emporia Graduate of 1995!
Good luck with your classroom this year...anxious to hear what ideas you came up with.

Great page! Welcome to Classroom 2.0. It is a great community.

I love your page! I hope you get a great start to the year and that this community can be a resource to you when you're back in the classroom! : )

Hello! I'm glad the MTI conference brought you here! I hope you find value in this fertile community! (I'm tired after the conference, so can't imagine doing two back-to-back).

Welcome from Germany!
Please consider to join my group DigiSkills on Classroom 2.0 as well! It is the biggest group and cares about digital teaching methods.
Greetings
Hans