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Comment by Joseph Marshall on August 5, 2009 at 7:08pm

I'm a computer teacher in Dorsey High School, Los Angeles, California. This looks like an interesting group... but it appears the last comment was posted almost a year ago (October 26). Is this group still active and interacting?

Comment by Britt Gow on October 26, 2008 at 4:21am

Teachers in this group will be interested in an article by Steve Hargadon "Moving towards web 2.0 in K12 Education" , with a list of 11 educational benefits of web 2.0 tools.

Comment by Anne Marie Cunningham on October 24, 2008 at 9:32am

Hello
I am a GP (Family doctor) and lecturer in a medical school. I am hopingto find people with experience of using these tools within a VLE such as Blackboard. There is probably lots of experience here! I started a blog last week so you can learn more about me:
http://wishfulthinkinginmedicaleducation.blogspot.com/
Good to meet you:)
AM

Comment by Britt Gow on October 24, 2008 at 5:58am

Hi All,
I am a maths and science teacher at a small, rural P12 college in Western Victoria. I am a regular visitor to classroom 2.0 and have found it to be a valuable professional learning network. This ning has been great to learn more about the specifics of some web 20 tools. I have started my own ning with year 7 students and an on-line science fair for international middle years students. Feel welcome to join if you are a middle school science teacher.

Comment by Jaime on October 21, 2008 at 7:51pm

Thank you, David for this great idea! I have not used Ning myself, except to explore it a little bit, but I can see it is an excellent idea. There is a project in our school we call "Data Wise" (it is the name of a book, which I recommend, follow the link). The objective is the continuous improvement of the teaching-learning process. It demands a lot of teamwork among teachers, first to identify the weaknesses, then the causes, later the changes that should be implemented in the classroom and finally the outcome of all that effort. We intent to do that at every academic department. I thought blogs would be useful if the teachers use them to tell about their best practices, so others can read about that, comment and imitate. But a social network, like this one is surely superior... Of course! I'll tell you as I advance with this idea. Thaks.

Comment by David Zuckerman on October 20, 2008 at 7:26pm

Welcome Jaime. It seems that your teachers' use of social/educational technology is progressing thanks to your good work. In your description, however, I saw no mention of a Ning space for the teachers to help them cohere, support each other, learn from each other, and become (I hope) more of a team and then finally a true community of practice. (I am very taken with this idea at this point in my life because I am trying to do the mechanics of creating such a space, with just those goals, for a group of writers who (we hope) will choose to join our non-profit start-up.) Have you considered taking this step? What has been your thinking on the subject?

Comment by Jaime on October 20, 2008 at 3:37pm

Hello,
I am leading the technology and quality programs in a bilingual k-12 school in Bogotá, Colombia. I am responsible for coaching and mentoring our 90 teachers to use web 2.0 tools. Some of them have already created their blogs or wikis, and they use fedd agregators and some others even social bookmarkig. The technology department has developed portals for teachers, parents and students using SharePoint. Besides that, some teachers are using Moodle.

I am very happy to share with you this forum.

Comment by Lesley Ann Wallace on October 10, 2008 at 3:51pm

Hi-I am eLearning Designer for a small technical college in the state of Washington looking for good ideas to share with instructors!

Comment by Bill Graziadei, Ph.D. on October 7, 2008 at 4:55pm

Melanie, a glog is a visual (can have text) blog that is interactive, e.g., http://wgraziadei.home.comcast.net/Web2PLNGlog.html. Sometimes the word "posterizing" is used as well. Think of a Glog as an interactive web poster. Hope this helps. Ciao, Bill

Comment by Melanie Jennings on October 7, 2008 at 4:39pm

I think I found this group a little late in the game. Do we discuss here or has the discussion moved to the wiki?
One more question: what in heaven's name is a glog? I looked it up and found the following definitions:
a blog written in the first person. Its uses “I” too much.
a web poster (www.glogster.com)
a golf blog (LOL!)
and finally mulled wine
What an odd collection of definitions...

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