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Hello everyone, my name is Sharon Padget and I teach at Ottumwa High School in Ottumwa Iowa. I am asking for your help in moving my school forward into the 21st century and using Web 2.0 applications. You see, my school has many wonderful teachers that are afraid or are not seeing technology as an asset to their classroom instead of something to be feared. I am moving to a paperless classroom, using notebooks, using smartboards and many other pieces of technology and feel the rest of the st… Continue

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for classes to participate in an Olympic Project for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. I have a grade 5&6 class that will be working on the project but I anticipate that many different grades will be able to work on the activities either as individuals or as a class group.

http://2010olympics.wikispaces.com/

It is a nice and very interesting activity. We choose a theme and some activities. We made different presentations of the them> power points, posters, drawings... We talk on Skype, mail.
The students talk, change ideas and informations.
This is a short presentation.

Today I offered the opportunity to a class of Year 7s to be part of the Eracism project.
An interesting learning experience for several reasons
1. Having to 'sell' the idea to students who did not know me (me being new to the school) showed how much more difficult it is when you don't have the personal 'capital' to call on. This led to:
2. The challenge of 'selling' a new project when not sure of time-line, work demand etc. Hope my efforts to appear confident didn't come over as too false
3. Eve… Continue

Hello Flat Classroom Teachers!

We are very excited to be launching a NEW project for Middle School (Grade 7/8 levels are perfect) called ERACISM. You are invited to APPLY to be part of this pilo… Continue