Introductions

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Permalink Reply by Gaby Stuebing on May 18, 2007 at 9:57pm

Hi everyone. I'm Gaby Stuebing from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Glad to be involved.

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Permalink Reply by Connie Walsh on May 19, 2007 at 3:21pm

Hi everyone. I am a special ed teacher, teaching inclusion to 8th graders. I am in NJ, near the shore.

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Permalink Reply by Cherie Hufford on May 20, 2007 at 7:16pm

Hi! I am Cherie from right outside Los Angeles, California.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin H. on May 21, 2007 at 2:40am

hi Cheri
What grade or area do you teach?
Kevin

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Permalink Reply by Phil Pound on May 21, 2007 at 4:41am

Hi all

I work with schools across the state of Western Australia as part of a small but great team of folk who are delivering professional learning to state schools selected for a project which aims to improve the uses and outcomes of their engagement with ICT in the Curriculum.
Great to see such a large network focussed on the ICT opportunities already on our doorsteps.
Phil

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Permalink Reply by Meagan on May 21, 2007 at 11:19am

Hello, Meagan here, from Wichita, Kansas. I am the instructional technology teacher in an elementary school. We are in the process of planning for next year and my hope is that web 2.0 will be a integral part of the projects. I am very interested in learning from others in elementary schools.

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Permalink Reply by Kin Lane on May 21, 2007 at 10:13pm

Hi there! I am a web application developer and Web 2.0 enthusiast. Happy to be part of of Classroom 2.0. I am currently assisting the University of Oregon in brainstorming new ways to embrace Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in their curriculum.

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Permalink Reply by Kathi on May 25, 2007 at 7:22pm

Kin,

If you ever need a guinea pig, we're not too far north of you! Always looking for ways to enhance the educational process here in Salem!

K

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Permalink Reply by Kin Lane on May 25, 2007 at 10:12pm

Hi Kathi,

Definitely will add you to my list of people plugged into my work here in Eugene. Come up to portland regularly, can arrange a stop in to see how we can share info.

Working on curriculum for the University level, and will be soon trying to adapt to other school levels.

Think the younger crowd is where to start...

Will be in touch, thanks for joining my network.

Kin Lane

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Permalink Reply by Jorge Mata on May 22, 2007 at 4:56pm

Hello to all of you 2.0 people. I’m Jorge Mata, from Portugal, specifically from a very old and beautiful town called Évora. I’m a History teacher, but for many years now I’ve been working in educational technology field in a state department.
I like technology, face it as something human, connectable. It’s easy for me to see the horizon of technology in school, but seems that we don’t get the right path to reach that horizon. Well like Larry Cuban book I to tend to believe that computers in school are oversold and underused.
Now Web 2.0 is the hype, maybe it’s now the time, or maybe the time has come to many of you already and I’m only late. Hope that participating in this community could help see the light.
For now I’m going to prepare me to the Dave Matthews Band first concert in Portugal, a rare opportunity.
Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Garner on May 23, 2007 at 10:13am

Hello from sunny (today at least) Salem, OR, USA!
My name is Melissa Garner and I work for Salem-Keizer Public Schools (www.salemkeizer.org), Oregon's second largest state school district. I am one of 1.4 people whose sole focus is instructional technology for our school district.
I'm most excited about "my" two Cadres: Our state has a Professional Development/Ed Tech cadre that meets 3 times a year and stays in touch using a blog powered by Movable Type (we were around LONG before blogging became popular!). Check us out at http://pdc.oetc.org.
The second Cadre is one we started this year in our school district with 13 teachers, each from a different school. We're really just getting started, but exciting things are happening and we're rearing to go for next year! Our humble beginnings are being recorded on a blog.
Personally, I'm a web 2.0 enthusiast!! My current favorite 2.0 app for education would have to be Google, followed closely by wufoo (and ning?) and my favorite personal app is youmail. Any where you look I'm moseylissa and you're welcome to look me up/im me/etc. :)
I'm excited to be here and to learn from all of you and contribute where I can!

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Permalink Reply by Diane Main on May 24, 2007 at 9:55pm

Hi everyone. This is Diane Main (pic is of my son). I met some of these fine folks at the first-ever Google Teacher Academy here in Northern California. (Okay, Will Richardson I met at NECC in San Diego.) I've been lurking a lot lately in the Google Teachers Group, mostly because with the end of the school year, life is CRAZED.

I teach Computer Technology to grades 1 through 8 at a private Christian school in San Jose, California. This past year (06-07) has been our first year in a long time of bringing our technology education back in-house, after nine (I think) years of contracting it out to companies that specialize in that sort of thing. I KNEW we could do better for our kids (whose parents mostly all work for companies here in Silicon Valley such as Cisco, Yahoo!, Intel, etc.) that just teaching and re-teaching Microsoft Office apps. (Which we still do, but BETTER and NOT ad nauseum.) We don't really have any lessons that don't culminate in a project. Lessons are done within projects now, instead of lessons, lessons, lessons and then OOH, a project once in a while. and my biggest push this past year has been for increasing our students' information literacy. All the students in grades 3-8 have a Bookmark in their Firefox toolbars to David Warlick's Citation Machine, and they cite a lot of research and image sources in their work for almost every project. I can see where in a few years, I will no longer have middle school students who do it incorrectly, because I have started them in 3rd grade with learning why we do it and how to do it right.

What I really want to see is more creation of original work by students . . . music, videos, podcasts, and more . . . but I would be more comfy teaching this on Macs . . . which my labs don't have.

In other news, by way of introduction, I live with my husband, step-daughter (soon to be HS senior) and son (soon to be preschooler if I ever get him out of diapers) in San Jose, CA in a great area called Willow Glen. I spend my summers reading the blogs of teacher fellows in the IISME Summer Fellowship Program. My first two years with IISME, I spent my eight weeks at IBM in South San Jose, and last summer I became a peer coach for the blogging group. I am looking forward to the coming summer (2007), mostly because I think the blogging I will be doing as a leader of this group will be more meaningful, more info-lit, and more Web 2.0 than it was in the past.

I am also an avid genealogy researcher (British and Irish only, as my parents, husband, and step-daughter are all immigrants from Scotland and England) and fairly new (a little over six months) geocacher. I have been doing the family history thing for over fifteen years, but the geocaching has become a bigger passion for me recently, as it's easier for me to get my fix of that. Hoping to do an elective class or two next year in our middle school using handheld GPS receivers (planning to apply for a grant through IISME to fund them).

That's about all for now. This looks like it will be a fantastic group!

Diane

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