Sue R.'s Comments

Hey Sue,

Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

Do you mind passing my message along to students and your HS colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack

Hi Sue... Thanks for letting me know you are here.

Cool thanks, Sue!

Hi Sue. I was wondering if you have students or educator friends 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!

Thanks, Sue. My Twitter is stinsol. It sounds like your job is similar to mine. Were you ever a classroom teacher? My neice lives in Bloomsburg. Her husband works in IT at the college. In some ways we miss PA but not in the winter. Lorraine

Hi Sue,

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

Sue, we have tons of stuff going besides the blogging. We are working on our fifth student wiki and using Moodle for online book discussions, Let me know if you would like links to all our stuff. N

Sue, thanks for the add. It gave me a chance to check out your blog. I gave it a quick gander and enjoyed what I saw, especially the powerpoint\blog article! Keep up the great work. Oh and let's get this guide rolling. Something like this could have a huge impact not only on the teachers wanting to use it, but on the school boards that are fearing the transition.

Your blog is amazing. I have added it to my favorites to read regularly. Happy vacationing and keep sharing your good ideas.
Linda

Congratulations on your excellent work
Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the feedback you offered on my article. I love brainstorming this way. Thanks again!

Thanks for the comment! I'm glad to hear there is some great stuff going on between Universities and k-12 schools. I just wish it was more universal. I was only stating the general feeling that I get about a perceived divide.

OK, I've put up the paper blogging lesson plan on classroom 2dot0 and linked to it from the "success stories" discussion here at this site. Here's a direct link: http://www.classroom20.net/Blogging+Lesson+Plans

Sue...yes please send me a copy of what you write up! I want to hear more about your project! :) Thanks!

Sue,
I checked out your blog and was intrigued by the paper blogging entries and pictures. I want to know more!! How did you start it and promote it? I'd love to borrow the idea (with credit to you, of course)!
Tina

Hi Sue,
Sorry about the bubbletrouble! I found it to be a bit addicting especially when my 13 year old is wiping me out! I like the article about "blogging" you did. It looks like a great exercise and would really help students to understand how things work. Also, it would demonstrate to them the need to civil to others when they get on the web as they would be able to see how comments affect other people. Good luck with the BT!

Yes I will. Maybe during the following week. I´ll try to join you. Cheers