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Steve Hargadon

64, Male

Asheville, NC

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation: The Learning Revolution
Blog: http://www.SteveHargadon.com
Website: http://www.classroom20.com
Favored IM Account: hargadon@gmail.com
Skype Account: SteveHargadon
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: SteveHargadon
About Me: I am the founder and director of the Learning Revolution Project, the host of the Future of Education interview series, and founder and chair or co-chair of a number of annual worldwide virtual events, including the School Leadership Summit and the Global Education Conference, Library 2.0, the Future of Museums, Gaming in Education, and the Homeschool Conference.

I pioneered the use of live, virtual (and peer-to-peer) education conferences, popularized the idea of education "unconferences," built the first modern social network (Classroom 2.0) for teachers in 2007, and developed the "conditions of learning" exercise for local change. I supported and encouraged the development of thousands of other education networks, particularly for professional development. For the last eight years, I've run a large annual ed-tech unconference, now called Hack Education (previously EduBloggerCon). I blog, speak, and consult on educational technology, and my virtual and physical events build community and connections in education, with 450,000 members and over 100,000 participant log-ins annually.

My newest project is SmallIsBeautiful.com, events around the intentional move toward small-scale, local food, living, community, work, and learning.

I have been the Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE, a regular co-host of the annual Edublog Awards, the author of "Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education," and the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE). I have consulted or served on advisory boards for Blackboard, CoSN, Horizon Project / New Media Consortium (NMC), Instructure, Intel, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, MERLOT, Microsoft, Mightybell, Ning, PBS, Promethean, Speak Up / Project Tomorrow, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. State Department, and others typically focusing on educational technology and social networking. A number of corporations and organizations support my events, and you can see a list and more details of my projects at Web 2.0 Labs.

Personal Information: I was a foreign-exchange student through AFS to Brazil for a year in high school, and organized and led group tours for several years as my first job after college for Stanford's Alumni Association. I spent 2013 traveling around the world talking to people about education. I have the skin condition Vitiligo and created the world's largest social network for those with Vitiligo at VitiligoFriends.org as well as the UniquelyBeautiful.net site. I also run a network for members of the extended Hargadon family--Hargadon is an Irish name, and all Hargadons come from Sligo.

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Margie Brown

Thanks for the information....I will be sure to use that "report an issue" link in the future...

Jul 2, 2007
Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Dear Steve:

I'm sorry if I offended you. I was invited by one of your members--had never heard of the group before that. So I was merely trying to explain to him that, though an educator (both books are books I use as texts for my classes at UCLA), I might be not be very active with my new book coming out. Even the image was already set from another ning group I belong to. Though I seem qualified in some respects, please feel free to remove me if I don't seem a fit.
Very sincerely,
Carolyn

Jul 2, 2007
Mindy Faber

Hi
Steve, Just joined ning and classroom 2.0 and am thrilled with what you have helped create. As a youth media educator working in tradition of "popular education" , I hope to add to the voices of those teaching in informal settings as well, particularly since critical and cutting edge media and technology education for youth has historically operated in community based contexts. Thanks!!

Jul 5, 2007
Ricart Prats

Hi Steve,

Great network page. Very impressive.

Jul 10, 2007
Incognita Nom de Plume

Great initiative Steve! Thanks -- I can see this coming in very useful in the months ahead. I've just opened a ning account to see if I can use it with my students (games and digital arts) as a central point for posting exercises and their own work and interacting with each other-- RMIT uses Blackboard as a cms -- but it completely sucks! Far too limited -- and ugly -- for the students to get excited about, whilst this seems to have far more functionality. I've got some great ideas from your network that I hope to try out with them -- and hopefully feedback into the general discourse.

Jul 10, 2007
Lisa Parisi

Hi Steve,
Just saw your SL video. Laughed till I cried! Having just started really playing around there, I find myself doing all those things. Funny stuff!

Jul 11, 2007
Adina Sullivan

Thanks for your comments on my forum posting. I'm not sure how you do it with all the projects you are involved in, but you are doing a really nice job of making of a new kid like me feel welcome.

Jul 19, 2007
Shawn Jackson

I am teaching a computer class at a small private school and there are no books to help me. I need to teach kids K-8th grade and I really don't know where to start. We are running office 2000 on pentium 3 and lower computers. they are slow. So we are also looking for new computers free or cheap p4 or better. Can anyone help?

Jul 25, 2007
James Picton

Great site Steve - let's drag teachers kicking and screaming into the 21st Century :-)

Easy to configure and potentially a very powerful resource. I've passed the word around, so hopefully more Aussies will jump on board.

Cheers
JImbo

Jul 26, 2007
Joel Bezaire

Thanks for taking the time to talk to us here in Nashville, Steve! Great site you've got here, and a really good "interview" today. Good stuff!!

Thanks again,
Joel B.
University School of Nashville

Jul 26, 2007
Jason Cummings

Steve, I tried to respond to your "2000th member e-mail" but it kicked back. Anyways, I wanted to thank you for all of your great work with Classroom 2.0 as well as for your excellent Ed-tech live podcasts. I have just started blogging about some of my modest Web 2.0 initiatives at http://borderlessteaching.blogspot.com/, and I have a class blog at http://nlcommunities.com/communities/learnspanish (that is getting a summertime clean-up/restructuring right now). Anyhow, I would be happy to have you use any of my stuff in your article. Thanks again for all of your work.

Jul 31, 2007
Tina Bulleigh

Steve, I love this site and it has been a very valuable resource for me! Thank you for what has been a great piece of daily mental and professional development fro me!

Aug 29, 2007
Kelly Christopherson

Steve, if you have a moment, I'd like to pick your brain about adding content to the network. I've started one and would like to add some of the same things you have. Thanks.
Kelly

Sep 14, 2007
Kelly Christopherson

Thanks Steve. Will do!

Sep 14, 2007
James Folkestad

Steve,
I would like to add the standardized tagging tool (list and search tool) to another Ning site. It is a Ning site that I started for my teacher licensure students @ Colorado State University called wisdomofstudents. Can you give me some direction on how to do this?

Thanks,

Jim

Sep 20, 2007
James Folkestad

Steve,
Yes several of my students noted that you had responded to their posts. Thank you for being so kind and generous with you time. They appreciated it.

Thank you for sharing the code - I will give it a try.

I hope we didn't cause any problems by posting to the network... I have saved your post (about looking for similar threads first) I will provide that information to them directly in class.

Best regards,

Jim

Sep 20, 2007
Laura Gibbs

hi Steve, re: the bloggers- it was interesting but definitely strange... and for sure it must be strange for the students, too, since their stuff is in the middle of all this stuff which is definitely NOT what they are looking for in a social networking world...
to be honest, it was a kind of scary reminder reading those posts (I read all of them out of sheer curiosity) of why I quit teaching high school - it is really hard for me to see that we lock students up in school for years and years, literally YEARS of their lives, and they still end up so profoundly alienated from the world of writing. eegad, what a huge task we have in front of us... I had students in my senior high school English class who were reading at the third and fourth-grade level and I just couldn't handle it. all I could think about was how much time of that young person's life must have been wasted in meaningless, totally meaningless, "educational" activities if they were seniors in high school and barely able to read. I freaked, and went to grad school instead. so I teach writing intensive courses now, but college level and i still think back on my high school teaching as a very abject failure...

Sep 20, 2007
James Folkestad

Steve,

Thank you for the support! I plan to share your insights into how to search for information within networks using tags.... this is important for them to understand. Also, please let me know if you find the comment you left for the student in regards to search versus social networks. I would like to share that in class as well.

Yes experimenting with collaborative technologies has been very interesting. I love this stuff! I am still learning, but I am passionate about collaboration and understand the power.

Getting students to engage and to truly expereience the power is something that I am still trying to perfect. I have several students that are getting it... many are not...

Jim

Jim

Sep 21, 2007
Laura Gibbs

hi Steve, the next round of blog posts for that class has shown up... it just doesn't seem like a good idea for them to use this ning as their blogging tool: maybe you could let the teacher know how she can have her own ning? I know that it's possible for a teacher to do that pretty easily, since my husband got excited about this whole ning thing and set up one for an online class he is teaching; his verdict was that it was way easier than he thought it would be. :-)

Sep 21, 2007
gerry davis

Hi Steve, I used a podcast program to produce my audio/podcast called "Propaganda" I was thinking about reproduction in "audacity" or "garageband" to see if the issue followed the software. Keep me posted if you have a fix, as I will you. Outside of Ning the audio works fine so I think the issue might be server side.

Sep 28, 2007
Mark Roper

Steve

I am really interested in trying to find out how to create pages in the top tab bar like you have. Can't figure it out depsite looking all around the fatures and settings aspects of NING. Any advice? Thanks

Sep 30, 2007
Elluminate Inc.

Hi Steve,

Thank you for the welcome. I will follow your advise and I look forward to collaborating with you all!

Oct 2, 2007
Scott Walker

Steve, I noticed that you are connected with k12computers.com. I am interested in hosting their ads on my site. Could you give me any details?

Oct 15, 2007
Laura Gibbs

As there is now a second teacher who has chosen to use classroom2.0 as the blogging tool for a class, I think it would be worth adding a box or blurb or something on the main page that will give teachers who want a blog space for their class instructions on how to create THEIR OWN NING COMMUNITY for this kind of purpose - it would be more effective for the students in a class to have a real community of their own, and it would also help in keeping their "assigned" blog posts (something they are clearly doing in response to a class prompt, not as actual community participants) showing up here in the feed.

Oct 23, 2007
Konrad Glogowski

Thanks for your note on my page. I hope my involvement helps. Take a look at my recent response to your post on Where To, Classroom 2.0? - Classroom 2.0. Let me know if I can help in any way.

Oct 30, 2007
Konrad Glogowski

Did you notice how many new members joined this weekend? Wow! Talk about growth!

Nov 4, 2007
James Edward Charles Webber

i didnt undderstand your last message at all
Thank- you for the music player recommendation
for embedding music player

the other Open social Ning....?? not with !

Nov 6, 2007
James Edward Charles Webber

Hello Steve
I s there a way of transferring a file >> ie discussion Ive written on efl 2.0
from efl 2.0 over to here directly?
Thanks
James

Nov 6, 2007
me bo

Hi Steve,
I'm new to Classroom 2.0 and am trying to change my profile picture. I click on the button to do so, but I can't figure out what to do after that. Thanks!!

Megan

Nov 6, 2007
Janice Conger

Steve, I am so happy to read on your blog about an advertising-free version of Ning for teachers to use with students. Keep up the great work in the Ningdom!
:-)
Janice

Nov 7, 2007
me bo

yup, thanks! : )

Nov 7, 2007
Janice Conger

Steve,
Hope you don't mind, I borrowed the Podcast of you talking about Ning for my blog: PowerLibrarian.blogspot.com. I am so happy you like Ningdom... I just think it fits!

Nov 8, 2007
James Edward Charles Webber

steve can you mail me if you wish my PLEASE wakey,,,
discussion for me to close it
i personally do not feel the inclination. to do this but do NOT
wish particularly anymore retorts of my opinion/ views being boith hostile and immature
James

Nov 10, 2007
Kelley Irish

I think you made the right call. The discussions here are aimed at educators and not children, I spend many many hours with my Junior High getting them to take their last names and home cities off their My Space accounts-and how to verify everyone on their friends list and to delete names of people they don't know .
personally!

I taught them how to create avatars for their pictures and how to pick a screen name not related to their real name.

When I have my kids collaborate on a wiki they all pick a "Corporate Name" and use that. Even my classroom wiki does not give out City or State info...always better to error on the side of safety

The really positive thing here is that members recognized this as a concern right away..it speaks well for the memebership., and of you who handled it all so quickly

Nov 22, 2007
Truman Tucker

Steve-
I am the teacher that recently created accounts for my students. I must have been incorrectly informed as to the use of Classroom 2.0. Our district's head of technology spoke to us recently about Classroom 2.0 being a way for students to communicate with eachother and being a "safe" alternative to sites such as MySpace or Facebook. Obviously from some of the comments I've read on here, this is not the case!

I certainly appreciate your quick decision to delete the accounts and I have taken similar action in deleting the links from our school's website. I would agree with a comment that I read on here that it does speak VERY well of the people using this service that this was caught so quickly and that people tried to help rectify it.

I apologize if I scared anyone!!! Like I said, I was under the impression that this was suppose to be a "kid friendly" social network, and I obviously know now that it is meant for something else!

Nov 22, 2007
Laura Gibbs

Hi Steve! Happy December! I wonder if we are in line for all kinds of peddling in the spirit of the "shopping" season... ha ha.

http://classroom20.ning.com/profile/AngelaHayden

Art Goddess? or spam artist? hmmmm....

:-)

Dec 3, 2007
James Folkestad

Steve,

Just a follow up to my email. I know you are probably extremely busy... but any chance that we could meet while you are in Denver?

Best regards,

Jim

Dec 4, 2007
Laura Gibbs

You will see the comment below from Parul, who is reposting from her blog (http://bhopu.com/2007/12/08/Ready-for-Real-Estate-2.0) even though it has nothing at all to do with education. I'll give her credit for self-promotion, but it's really a waste of people's time here to wade through a post like this wondering if it is going to have anything to do with education (it doesn't). She might learn something from watching how this ning works, definitely, but it doesn't seem appropriate for her to use it as a place to repost from a blog that is not education-related.

Dec 8, 2007
Jo Rhys-Jones

Hi Steve
Congratulations to you on Classroom 2.0 's win at the Eddies! Excellent show!
Jo x

Dec 10, 2007
Steve Hargadon

Jo (et al.):

I certainly would be selfish if I considered that win mine. I think the award really belongs to everyone here, and to the determine few who have really made this network a pace of truly remarkable dialog.

Thanks, though, for thinking of me!

Dec 10, 2007
Michael Staton

Sure Steve. Would love to chat. I'm more or less always in front of my computer, so you can ping me at mpstaton@gmail.com and I'll give a call. I'd like to talk before this workshop that goes down.

Dec 26, 2007
Laura Gibbs

Hi Steve, I don't know if there is an explicit or implicit standard re: crediting sources for classroom2.0, but there is some useless plagiarizing going on in a couple of the discussions here, the kind that just looks silly since it is so blatantly inappropriate (Ian and I both commented):
http://classroom20.ning.com/profile/zarienvandergos

Dec 27, 2007
Bobby

Hey man...great job getting maintaining classroom 2.0.

Quick question:

Is there anyway I can rearrange the boxes on my page?
Thanks!
Bobby Norman

Dec 31, 2007
Leigh Zeitz

Steve,

I am very impressed with what you have created with Ning.com Your direction and their software has create a vibrant community.

Leigh

Jan 4, 2008
Christina Swedberg

Steve, Elizabeth Davis suggested I leave a message for you. I am a music teacher and was wondering if you could add music as a subject area. You have math, reading, art, etc., but no music. I want to invite my music teacher friends, and I'm sure it would be easier to blog if we had a music area to go to. Does that make sense? Thanks, Christina

Jan 17, 2008
Laura Gibbs

Hi Steve, I left comments on the last two posts by William Peterson - I don't know what he hopes to gain by crossposting here since he is already a writer at ZDNet, but he's also hawking software (the first of these two posts). Anyway, no mention of students to be found... :-)

Jan 23, 2008
Laura Gibbs

I know you are such a busy person!

BTW I've been having fun watching the similarities/differences in how Connie Weber's Fireside ning goes from day to day, compared to the giant Classroom2.0. I keep an eye on both of them with much interest and continue to tell everybody about how cool the world of ning is. Excellent stuff.

Jan 23, 2008
Laura Gibbs

I was thinking that, too - it bugs me, but it's like somebody who comes to the wrong party or something. No harm done; it happens. I think you are the victim of your own success: when a blogger sees a network with this many people, they are tempted to crosspost just because it is a HUGE audience, potentially. I guess that is the motivation. I still find it weird, though. :-)

Jan 23, 2008
Ms. Voki

Why thank you Steve! Being a Voki is cool for the teacher too.

Jan 23, 2008
Alecia Berman-Dry

Hey Steve. I wonder if you have seen a widget that I can embed on my class Ning for chatting. Kind of like the short-lived yack pack widget for anyone that is online in the space?

Jan 30, 2008

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