Lorelei Reynolds's Page

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School / Work Affiliation: Liberty

About Me: Hello Everyone!

My Name is Lorelei Reynolds. I am a five year Ed Tech student at Pace University. My Bachelors will be in Secondary Education for Mathematics. I am loving the program so far and all of the fasicinating ways I have learned to incorporate the Internet into my lesson plans, so hopefully that keeps going well for me.

Since I am a five year I sadly to not have a classroom of my very own, however I had been student teaching in Sleepy Hollow Middle and High School. The students there were amazing the if you live in the area and have not seen the renovations and construction they are doing I urge you to see; it is magnificent what they are doing with the school. Also, Sleepy Hollow is lucky enough to have their entire school equipped with SMART Boards, so I have a lot of experience using them. They are the best piece of technology ever to be put in a classroom. Students get excited about what they are learning because for them they get to be part of playing with this "fun gadget" in the front of the room. The possibilities are endless when it comes to the SMART Board. I only hope that when I am looking for a school I am lucky enough to find one that has them. Since children of this generation have so many pieces of technology to play with on a recreational basis, I know they will give me a hard time if all I have for them is a textbook and piece of chalk. Of course I'll make it work if I can't have the luxury, however its nice to keep my hopes high.

I am from a small town in Sullivan County, Liberty, New York. If you don't know where that is I'm not surprised and I won't be offended. However, if you know where Woodstock was held or the new Bethel Woods Venue, I live ten minutes from there. At area is practically my backyard. This is also the area I hope to come back to and teach. Part of being a good teacher is about knowing the community; what better way to know the community than to pick one you grew up in. I am into doing a lot of interesting things in this area like skydiving, kayaking, and hiking, so I will have a lot of experiences and stories to share with my students; making my lessons even better when I tie them in.

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At 8:01pm on December 30, 2008, Jack said…: Hi Lorelei!

Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from NY!

You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

At 12:59pm on December 26, 2008, marcotuts said…: 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 Marco Morales; 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. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, 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, 2008, 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 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,

Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com