Steve Hargadon's Comments

Hi Steve. My name is John Oppenheim. I teach part-time at Pepperdine (MIS) University and Downey Adult School (Quickbooks and Accounting). I have been in the software business for 40 years.

I am on the conference and while it is exciting to hear about all the new things, if you have read "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Mooer, you will see that there are "innovators" and "early adopters" who will grasp all of this great technology. Across the chasm are the "early majority" "late majority" and "laggards". These last three are the ones who need to figure out what they want to do and then find the products that will help them.

I put something on the comments today about a personal assessment tool for the needs of each teacher. Once the assessment is done, then that teacher can put the products in perspective.

I hope this is clear. If not, please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss this. As I am listening to the various conversations, I shudder that someone is listening to this and saying "where do I start?".

John Oppenheim
johnopp@speakeasy.net
562-547-9329

Thanks - Good to see you, too! Great site - nice work!

Steve,

Thanks for the well wishes! If you have any advice, thoughts, questions, or just want to be kept up to date, please let me know!

Alyshia
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

Hi Steve,

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 'e-learning and online teaching' 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 a competition for startup funding 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

Just wanted to say I read the latest NEA Magazine (January issue) and saw the article on Social Networking, it was great to see you in there and the plugs for Ning and Classroom 2.0!!

Please check out our site again when you get a chance OpenClassroom Community, we appreciate your input and would love to get more in these early stages of development.
Thanks!

Congrats on 15,000 members!

Dude, I'd love to be added to the greeter/hosts team if you think my help wd be of value to the network. That'd probably get me in here more often, too! Let me know...

Hi Steve, thank you for the welcome. We absolutely want to participate in this community in an appropriate way.

Hi Steve,

I hope all is going well - I'm sure you are happily busy, as usual. Also, want to say how I appreciated your finely and properly positive ideas on the Brittania blog exchange.

I've been also happily busy -- will have a Project Peace coming out on a Ning network and will describe shortly on Ning in Education. Ning, kindly took off the ads there. Educators will download material to easily make videos using classroom members, to promote peace. Will launch Dec. 8th - John Lennon's remembrance day.

However, I'm writing about something I proposed awhile back and we both just got too busy for. A Classroom 2.0 bookstore. We have a great book community of teachers and I've set up bookstores for a few other networks besides Classroom 2.0. Works well. Teachers can make "book talk " discussion threads and I or others can load them up as categories in the bookstore for teachers to quickly get a good sense of what are the great new and timeless books for any category. Classroom 2.0 would get revenue from all sales also, easily monitored.

Here is the bookstore. Teachers have also found it through the few times I've mentioned, and already ordered books there. What is needed is some kind of button, link on the main page of Classroom 2.0. It's your call but I think it would be a great addition - especially for new teachers, to quickly see a selection of teacher (not Amazon) recommended books.

Get back to me on this when you have time....Cheers,

David

thank you for classroom2.0 - it's exactly what I need to keep up, keep ideas fresh etc.
RR

Re: that bug I found with Ning.

The Ning support team was quick to get back to me and have now resolved the issue. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction & keep up the good work with this community!

Hi Steve,
I started a discussion again and it still isn't on the front page. Are you featuring certain discussions? Usually the most recent one pops to the top.

I'm doing really well. I like my new job a lot (I'm the Director of Academic Technology at an Independent school). I've been presenting at a few conferences. Alan November is giving us space to do an edubloggercon before BLC again this year. I'm also going to be at NECC this summer for edubloggercon - I hope to see you there.

Thanks for asking - how are you doing?
-Liz

Hi Steve,
I started a discussion this about an hour ago and don't see it on the front page. Do you have to approve it before it will appear there?
-Liz

Thanks for the opportunity, Steve. I think lots of educators are excited about Diigo.

Thanks for the quick feedback. I'll forward my bug report on to the Ning team & let you know if/when they resolve the problem.

understood. thanks

Thank you so much! I look forward to learning a lot here. This is all new to me.

sorry sir, it will not be happened in future.