Introductions

Please introduce yourself, let us know a little bit about you, and where you are from.

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Permalink Reply by Audra Santos on September 15, 2011 at 4:16pm

Hi! My name is Audra and I teach Biology in Xiamen, China. I'm originally from Texas, but have been in China for 4 years now. I recently attended a conference that got me thinking more about investing in myself and the power of networking, so I've been reading more blogs and looking for more online opportunities. Happy to be here!

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Permalink Reply by JOANNE MCLEOD on September 17, 2011 at 2:39am

Hi I am Joanne McLeod, a Junior Teacher from New Zealand. I teach 5-8yr olds at a small rural school. I am currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Information Communication Technology in Education. I have been researching whether or not blogging improves student writing skills. I was very interested to read about the Standford study on student writing

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Permalink Reply by Louisa Schaefer on September 19, 2011 at 6:42pm

Hello! My name is Louisa Schaefer. I joined this forum with the encouragement of an instructor in a George Washington University program in which I am enrolled. I am actually an adult educator in the Washington, DC area but have found a lot of corss-over and learning opportunities in the K-12 education forum. Teachers in this arena seem to be on the cutting edge of creative use of technology in the classroom. I am looking forward to learning from you all, trying new things, and hopefully contributing something from my own lessons learned. Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Edward Sagmiller on September 20, 2011 at 1:49pm

Hello, I'm Dan Sagmiller, Oconomowoc, WI (outside Milwaukee/Madison)

I run a small school on Game Programming and Business Programming and occasionally teach classes at local colleges and give talks to schools. I'm hoping to improve my craft of education and find excellent ideas here.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Walrich on September 20, 2011 at 5:41pm

Hello everyone! My name is Jeff Walrich and I work at Holy Innocents' in Atlanta, GA

Dean-10th Grade Boys, Assistant Athletic Director, Film & Broadcast Production Teacher, Head Wrestling Coach and love educational technology!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Campisi on September 23, 2011 at 7:29am

Hey Jeff,

This is Dan from buffalo. I loved filmmaking and still have hopes to be a screenplay writer some day. I am in my 40's and recently disabled, so, I have the time to write them now. Any ideas on what is new in the world of film? I took my classes in the 90's, so, I know much has changed, but, I am more looking at how the writing has changed.

thanx

Dan

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Permalink Reply by Tony Graham on September 21, 2011 at 12:15pm

Hello everyone, my name is Tony Graham and I am based in Leicestershire in England. I am an education consultant specialising in leadership development and online learning. I lead a small team of e-specialists providing facilitator training for the National College. I also work in Industry for about 50% of my time focussing on training trainers, QA and design of training programmes.

Why am I here...... I want to understand more about this way of learning.

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Permalink Reply by Brianna Strahler on September 23, 2011 at 2:07pm

Hello all! My name is Brianna Strahler, and I am a social studies teacher with a passion for literacy from Pittsburgh, PA. I'm looking to collaborate and meet new teachers!

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Permalink Reply by Matt Hurst on September 23, 2011 at 10:06pm

I'm Matt Hurst from Salem (Keizer), Oregon. I use quite a few collaborative tech tools in my middle school ESL classes. This year my classes are using iPod Touches. Other new tools I'm currently trying out are: Schoology and ClassDojo. You can visit my blog to find out more: MullOverThings.com Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by TEJAL SHAH on September 26, 2011 at 9:20pm

Hi Everyone. My name is Tejal Shah and I am teaching in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I have also taught in London, England and am looking to connect with educators from around the world. I teach intermediate elementary (mainly Grades 4-7). I am just finishing up an Masters in Education in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education (focus on computer mediated technology and holistic education). I am also quite passionate about peace education and social justice issues.

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Permalink Reply by Marsha Goren on September 26, 2011 at 10:22pm

Tejal,

I hope you are all well and have a wonderful school year. I am writing to tell you that we are beginning our peace project for the year in honor of the United Nations International Peace day on September 21st, 2011

We invite our friends from around the world to participate in our project by writing about peace at your school, towns, city or countries. Since I am also the project director of the GVC Clubhouse there two ways in which you can send project. If you use the clubhouse wiki then please:

http://gvc-clubhouse.wikispaces.com/peace

Go to New Page and create a page called Peace - and add your school's name or organization. TAG the page: peace, and it will appear on the wiki menu. OR send your text, images or videos to marsha@gsbi.org to post on the Global Dreamers website Peace 2011-project. See Peace Archive

We are sharing our work with the Global Virtual Classroom and hope to have a great collaboration with all of the wonderful educators and kids from around the world.

Please join us. Wishing everyone a great year and looking forward to hearing from all of you,.

Sincerely,

Marsha Goren

http://www.globaldreamers.org

GVC project director of the GVC Clubhouse