Nancy Bosch's Comments

Nancy, I am having trouble with getting some of the videos to play.

The one in particular (but not the only one) will act as if it is loading but never comes up to play is Steve Hargadon's The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version). I can't tell what the movie formats are to see if I am missing a codec.

If you need other videos that won't play for me or will play for me on the site, let me know.

Thanks in advance for your help. I am preparing a presentation for the Texas state conference for computer educators on Classroom 2.0 so would also like to ask you for some particularly good examples of forums, blogs, member profiles, photos, videos to hightlight in my 45-minute talk.

Thanks in advance, Gayla

Hi Nancy,
You mentioned the Kindle on my blog. Do you have one, and if so, what do you think of it?

I was looking for an activity exactly like the one you described where students build solid figures. Next month we will be doing Algebra so I would appreciate any resources you have. Thanks for your help.

Tanya

Hi Nancy,
I was wondering if you have any sites or resources you know of to use with gifted students in 4th grade for geometry extentions. I am mainly looking for hands-on activities or web resources. My 4th graders are at the 6th and 7th grade level.
Thanks,
Tanya

I almost forgot. Here is the name of the Wiki page so your kids can watch Stanley travel too.
http://sapflatstanley.pbwiki.com/

Thanks Nancy. Would you be willing to have a virtual Flat Stanley visit your classroom? ALl you would have to do is answer the following questions and email the responses back to me at kirish43@hotmail.com. Then I would post your resonse on My classes Flat Stanley Winki page. Here are the questions:
Dear Mrs. Bosch,
We are trapped here in Michigan-so we decided to let Stanley take some virtual field trips so we can learn more about different schools and different places. Can Stanley visit and tell us abnout your school?
!. What is the name of your school?
2. How many students attend and in what grades
3. Where is your school located?
4. What is your climate and weather like.
5. What fun places will Stanley visit where you live?
Thanks the St. Anthony's kids

Thanks Nancy, I;m checking it out right now!

Great resource for primary sources Nancy, thanks very much for sharing.

Might want to add a link to History Uncut.

John

Thank you for the environmental club contact. I will email to find out how they put it together.

Hey there Nancy! You have an amazing website! Keep up the great work!

Happy New Year Nancy!
Let me tell you a bit about me. I am from Argentina, where I have carried out some research that showed a very small percent of secondary school teachers make actual use of the Internet in for their practices. I will be giving a talk next february to share ideas and resources with many colleagues who do not even know about web 2.0. I participate of classroom 2.0 but would like to start my own network so as to show my colleagues here what one can do whith sites like NIng(and also as a personal challenge!) If you could please join me at
http://teach-with-internet.ning.com/

and probably invite some of your colleagues, too. It would be very helful to start making the network grow!
Thanks a lot.
Paula

Hello Nancy,
I wondered how I find the discussion repeat of today's Elluminate Live meeting?
Thank you, Deb

Thanks for getting back to me Nancy. It's interesting that you mentioned drupal because I just got their book about using drupal in education. I have installed and configured two wordpress blogs, so I'm not adverse to the idea of doing it myself . . . it's just finding the time!

Hi Nancy

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've until recently only been active on the education.ning.com website. For the project I'm working on talking to teachers who strive to integrate technology into the classroom is always interesting, since most of the teachers we have actually sat down and talked to tend to be teachers who aren't as active in terms of new tools and how to use them in the classroom. 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. We also have more written in the comments/advise section on the ideablob website.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com

Nancy thanks for the work here!!
Best wishes
James

Hi Nancy,
I an new to this web 2.0 stuff and feel completely lost, I hate to admit. Can you give me advice on where to start. I feel I have found a wonderful resource and want to benefit from it as much a possible. I have joined several groups, but don't know where to go from here. Any help would be appreciated!

I hear you, Nancy. Really, I do. The last post on my blog addressed the fact that these issues need to be delivered from the top as well as grassroots. I go back and forth between that. At times, I just think the "throw resources at those ready to run" -approach is the best.

I saw both sides of this again recently in the "Britannica Debate." Will Richardson took the "run with those ready" approach here.

Then another person I respect, Ryan Bretag, took issue in this post where he advocated a more comprehensive approach that doesn't let anyone out of the loop.

I am still shaping how I feel on this one... but what i do know is that my experience is secondary. I wish wish wish I had someone who could be as strong of an advocate from the elementary level as well.

You are so close... how would a visit from a few folks and I sometime?

Sean

Hey Nancy- thanks for the kind words about the Ning site. I was excited to see you are actually so close geographically. It's just... that sadly that doesn't happen much here.

Sean

Nancy I left a reply to ERIC S post just today
somethjing like what next stop Korea
HE REPLIED with ?
I then left on his page today
"just got fired from my job
its not a great one - sorry THE comment "


basically -my post ( as above) is now deleted
BUT his reply ? remains
thanks
James

hope that clears things up!