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Call for participation - International Space Station Project
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Kelly Christopherson Sep. 12, 2007.

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Diane's Blog - Nexus

Learning to Change

Thanks to a tweet from Jeff Whipple I found my way to this video produced by Pearson’s for CoSN. The title - Learning to Change, grabbed me first and got me thinking before I even clicked the play button. We tell teachers they must change, but do we acknowledge that we must in many cases learn [...]

Comment Challenge - Let’s Take Stock

As part of the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge, we’ve been asked to consider how we’re inviting conversation on our own blogs. It’s been suggested that we use Michele Martin’s post Six Reasons People Aren’t Commenting On Your Blog as a guide for auditing our blogs. Here are six common traps Michele says bloggers [...]

The Comment Challenge: Building Community One Conversation at a Time

We’re more than a week into the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge and at the time of this writing, coComment is tracking 135 conversations by 92 group members. There are far too many individual comments to try to read them all! However following conversations that interest you will still lead you to many voices you [...]

Things are buzzin’ at the Comment Challenge!

The volume of the edublogsphere has been cranked up this past week as over 100 bloggers have taken up the challenge to improve their commenting by participating in the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge. Commenters have been buzzing, flitting from blog to blog, sampling bits of wisdom here and digging into conversations there. Kate Foy and [...]

2008 Comment Challenge - Tracking Your Comments

I’m really enjoying taking part in the 2008 Comment Challenge! I’m meeting familiar and new-to-me bloggers all over the place (including here on my own blog)! And as usual when I throw myself into a challenge, I’m learning so much! Today’s challenge relates to comment tracking. This is a critical element of commenting. When you make [...]

Join the 2008 Comment Challenge

Coordinated by Sue Waters, Silvia Tolisano, Michele Martin and Kim Cofino, the Comment Challenge has been designed to motivate us to become “better blog citizens.” I think this is just the kick-in-the-pants I need to get back to being a participating citizen of the edublogsphere, one who enjoys the right to take part in collegial dialogue [...]

Horizon Project 2008: Don Tapscott Keynote

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Horizon Project 2008 when I can steal away for a few minutes and am very impressed with the efficiency of the students as they get themselves organized into their focus groups and assign individual and group responsibilities. The project was officially opened more than two weeks ago with a [...]

Horizon Project 2008 is underway!

Kudos to Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay as they kick off what promises to be another incredible global collaborative project, Horizon Project 2008! Eleven classrooms from the Australia, Austria, Japan, Qatar, Spain and the United States are collaboratively envisioning the future of education and society based upon the Horizon 2008 report from the New [...]

Note to self!

Dear Diane Please tag this post as you will probably need to refer to it at a later date. The following action items require your immediate attention: Acknowledge that you are a busy professional with too many items on her to-do list and that the process of completing these tasks is of far more significance than the [...]

Authentic Learning - Meaningless Edspeak?

Skimming my Twitter messages yesterday, I came across a request from Dr. Alec Couros from the University of Regina to help him respond to a writer who took issue with his use of the phrase “authentic learning” in an article, Safety and Social Networking, that he had written for TechLEARNING. The writer in question [...]
 

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Diane Hammond added the blog post 'Google Moon'Sep. 21, 2007

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Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
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Curriculum Consultant, YES I Can! Science, www.yesican-science.ca
About Me:
I have taught at the elementary level for more than 25 years. I am currently Curriculum Consultant for the YES I Can! Science project. I coordinate our real-time science projects such as Polar Science, www.polarscience.ca and our current project, ISS07, iss07.yesican-science.ca. I am also the creator and administrator of the Ontario Blogs project, www.ontarioblogs.com
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I'm not available to chat at the moment, but don't let that stop you. If the number in the lower right corner of the "Live" box is greater than "one" there is someone else to talk to. Just click on the "Live " button and hold down to talk.



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Diane Hammond

Google Moon


Image above: Artist’s rendition of spaceship Orion orbiting the moon with disc-shaped solar arrays tracking the sun to generate electricity.

Image Credit: Lockheed Martin Corp.

Mission Control Houston…

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Posted on September 21st, 2007 at 5:45am —

Diane Hammond

L-0 Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor

Simply awesome!

See my blog, Nexus for more pics.


Posted on August 8th, 2007 at 9:14pm —

Diane Hammond

L-1

L-1…one day until the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor.

We’re barely surviving the heat in Florida, but we’re eagerly awaiting the launch of Endeavor, scheduled to lift-off at 6:36 tomorrow, (Wed. Aug. 8). We had a very busy day today touring the Kennedy Space Center, viewing the launch site and attending the Canadian Space Agency reception for astronaut Dave Williams.… Continue

Posted on August 7th, 2007 at 7:23pm —

Diane Hammond

I'm going to see the Space Shuttle launch!

I’m heading off to Florida this afternoon for a once-in-a-lifetime experience! Yes, you might say, going to Florida in August will probably be a trip I won’t forget for awhile. As great an experience as that promises to be, my awesome adventure also includes watching the launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, from the VIP viewing area, as part of the Canadian Space Agency co… Continue

Posted on August 3rd, 2007 at 6:46am —

Diane Hammond

Think Big!

One of the things I love most about teaching is the opportunity we have to “start fresh” each school year - with new students and new possibilities. As we plan for the learning opportunities we will facilitate for our students, we need to step back from our curricula, lists of outcomes, and standards; step way back, and keep backing up, until a bigger picture starts to come into focus. Once we have the perspective of that bigger picture, we can zoom in again on the outcomes and standards as requ… Continue

Posted on July 30th, 2007 at 4:18am —

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At 1:34am on November 7th, 2007, Rick Biche said…
Greetings Diane,
Thanks for the invite and thanks again for coming all the way out to join us for a day. You should start seeing the kids blog posts showing up on the ISS site.
At 10:04am on October 7th, 2007, Fred Delventhal said…
Yes I work at a NASA Explorer school. I heard you on the WOW podcast and went into tell someone about it and it turns out you already know Laurie Sullivan.

The ISS project looks great!
At 7:29am on June 30th, 2007, MVESK5 said…
Thanks for joining in our educational journey via the web 2.0. I look forward to more connections in the future.
At 9:46pm on June 4th, 2007, Kevin said…
Hello there! I look forward to sharing ideas with you.
At 2:57pm on April 28th, 2007, Durff said…
Cool Yackpack..I showed into my friend
At 1:02pm on April 18th, 2007, Hans Feldmeier said…
Hi, like others: Thanks for your advice to use yackpack. Just one day before, I wrote about in my private blog
http://hansfeldmeier.faces.com/Blog
Maybe we can have a talk ??? Hope so.
Cheers
Hans
At 3:30am on April 18th, 2007, Kevin H. said…
It was nice to pop into your site and hear your voice last night, Diane. I then went and checked out Yackpack.
Thanks
Kevin
At 1:14am on April 18th, 2007, SusanTsairi said…
Hi Diane, I like the yackpack live box, (did try talking to thin air until I looked again and saw that the number in the box should be higher than 1 :-)
You might like voicethread, I've added one to my page:
http://classroom20.ning.com/profile/tsairi
Susan
At 3:47pm on April 12th, 2007, Diane Hammond said…
Hi Kelly, I haven't really used the chatter feature much. I'm not sure how useful it is. So far I've mostly participated in the discussions in the forums. I'd never be able to keep track of those without subscribing to the RSS feeds. I like the "vibrancy" of the community.
At 3:38pm on April 12th, 2007, Kelly Christopherson said…
Hi Dianne, thanks for the chatter. Wish there was a way to respond to your chatter so that both of us had the message. My goodness, there are alot of "conversation" avenues available. And newbies are suppose to navigate this? I'm lost!
Kelly

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