Hi, Thornybe,
So lucky for you! I am still trying to get Ning and blogs unblocked as well as iLife enabled on our student computers. So I know exactly how you feel and now you are free it of! Wow! Are you familiar with the flat classroom projects? I have been trying to get involved for two years ... since we last chatted :) .... and trying to get things unblocked etc. so that we could participate. But nothing changed except my attitude -- I just joined a project anyway and the kids work from home. We can access the wiki at school but that is all. IT is challenging but the rewards are unbelievable. You must check them out. Google flat classrooms or the project we are working on now is called NetGenEd (Net Generation Education) with the author Dan Tapscott.
As principal, will you teach in the classroom at all or how will that work. Let me know if you want to set something up between our students!
Hi, thornybe ... sorry it has take me so long to get back to you (2 years) :)
Anyway, yes I am a middle school science teacher. Are you still teaching science? I am trying to incorporate Nings and wikis .... have done a flat classroom project and am trying to figure out how to better tweak these tools for science. How about you!
HI ROBERT,i gather you teach in an international school.Here in Fiji there are about 5 International school or private school.The rest are following the curriculum of the state.It is not so child-centered....The teacher does everything due to lack of resources in schools..My school has about 250 students..from forms 3-6 (14yrs-19)I teach biology and chem...e mail you later..CHEERS..
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual ning network is no exception. 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 worked at a middle school, 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
Website, IM, Skype, Twitter = marcotuts
Hi! I am in Kenai, Alaska. I will soon be teaching. I am still in college. Hopefully next fall I will be student teaching, and then I will have my own class. It would be fun to teach the future though ;)
Istanbul is very far away!
I am very interested in the work you are doing.
Can you tell me how you are using various web technologies (blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks) with your students?
Also, I am a middle school science teacher in New York -- we teach biology in 7th and 8th grades.
Would you be interested in having our students collaborate on a project?
Hai Thornbee, i am a senior consultant in a human resurces department. We are interested in the opportunity's of Ning as a knowledge sharing environment. Do you have any experience with this?.
Greetings
Bert
Hello and thank you for your message!
I would be really happy to have you in our project "Traditions in Europe"; you would bring a new dimension to it; we're actually looking for partners from all Europe.
Unfortunately, we haven't decided on what host to choose yet; if you have suggestions, please feel free to write to me at l_mihalachi@yahoo.co.uk
I look forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Liliana
Thansk for the comment! Glad you like Ning. What I liked about yahoo was that it was easy to share documents. I'm going to try it with Ning a bit later. What I didn't like is the horrible adverts!
Anyhow, let's explore these two a bit and see what others think of them too.
You left a comment for me rather than in the group section.
That's great. I didn't recognize that it may just belong to us. So NING and yahoo group serves the same aim. I created a group in yahoo as well. Did you receive the invitation did you check how it works. Let's decide which to use . It really doesn't matter for me. They are both perfect.See you ( Am I in the right place to write the comment. Is this the space for MYP group only?)
I'd start a forum thread, add the documents, and then you can create a link to the forum post that you put in one of the main text boxes on the home page.
How many documents do you need to host? I haven't thought about what to do if it's a large number. Of course, you could host them externally and then link to them.
Thanks for your kind comments. Would be happy to catch up with you anytime regarding MYP! All of my contact info is on my blog - send me an e-mail and we can go from there :)
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If I can be of any further help with my eFolio tool, if you want an evaluation or want to set up a pilot group please let me know.
Best Wishes,
Ray T
pirjo
So lucky for you! I am still trying to get Ning and blogs unblocked as well as iLife enabled on our student computers. So I know exactly how you feel and now you are free it of! Wow! Are you familiar with the flat classroom projects? I have been trying to get involved for two years ... since we last chatted :) .... and trying to get things unblocked etc. so that we could participate. But nothing changed except my attitude -- I just joined a project anyway and the kids work from home. We can access the wiki at school but that is all. IT is challenging but the rewards are unbelievable. You must check them out. Google flat classrooms or the project we are working on now is called NetGenEd (Net Generation Education) with the author Dan Tapscott.
As principal, will you teach in the classroom at all or how will that work. Let me know if you want to set something up between our students!
Marcia
Anyway, yes I am a middle school science teacher. Are you still teaching science? I am trying to incorporate Nings and wikis .... have done a flat classroom project and am trying to figure out how to better tweak these tools for science. How about you!
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual ning network is no exception. 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 worked at a middle school, 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
Website, IM, Skype, Twitter = marcotuts
Istanbul is very far away!
Can you tell me how you are using various web technologies (blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networks) with your students?
Also, I am a middle school science teacher in New York -- we teach biology in 7th and 8th grades.
Would you be interested in having our students collaborate on a project?
Greetings
Bert
I would be really happy to have you in our project "Traditions in Europe"; you would bring a new dimension to it; we're actually looking for partners from all Europe.
Unfortunately, we haven't decided on what host to choose yet; if you have suggestions, please feel free to write to me at l_mihalachi@yahoo.co.uk
I look forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Liliana
Thansk for the comment! Glad you like Ning. What I liked about yahoo was that it was easy to share documents. I'm going to try it with Ning a bit later. What I didn't like is the horrible adverts!
Anyhow, let's explore these two a bit and see what others think of them too.
You left a comment for me rather than in the group section.
Best Wishes
Robert
How many documents do you need to host? I haven't thought about what to do if it's a large number. Of course, you could host them externally and then link to them.
Thanks for your kind comments. Would be happy to catch up with you anytime regarding MYP! All of my contact info is on my blog - send me an e-mail and we can go from there :)
Kim
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