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I was wondering how your 21st Century Skills class went this year? I am starting mine in the fall and would love it if you could share your class activities, etc. I already have a copy of your syllabus from previous discussions.
I am especially interested in how you used 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.

Randy,
I see that you are teaching a 21st Century Skills course this year. My school is piloting one next year and I would love to be able to use some of your material. Can you give me any advice-pros-cons, etc. ?
Thanks!

Hi Randy. I was wondering if your students and teachers 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,

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' groun, 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

Great to see you here Randy! I hope all is well where you are. : )

Glad to see your excellent work! I have also sent letters to our representative and senators on NCLB; Looking for others from Kansas that I haven't met yet.

did you teach you class on 21st century skills? how is it going?

Thanks for the website that has keyboarding resources!!

Great to make your acquaintance, Randy.