Welcome and Introductions...

[Steve Hargadon]

Welcome!

Please comment here, letting us know who you are, where you are from, and what your interests are.

[Tracy Hamilton]

Hi my name is Tracy Hamilton. I'm from Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. The last couple of year my career has taken a real turn and is pointing straight down an elearning path. I'm not completely clear where I am heading, but am looking globally for inspiration, knowledge, what's hot, what's new, and connecting with people that are discovering the same. I work in the health care field, however I have no clinical background, and we are just beginning to move our staff in to electronic teaching world.

It appears this community may have some really great resources and certainly extremely talented people to share ideas and gain suggestion from.

[Diane Hammond]

Hi everyone! I wanted to have a bit of fun with my introduction so I created a Voki. It doesn't work especially well in this forum so I've parked it on my profile page. Pop by and say hi.

[Tutorz Contact]

Hi Everyone,
I am from Port Hueneme, CA and I'm interested in many things: music (guitar), art, education, surfing, snowboarding, tutoring, and food (top chef)... I would like to let eveyone know that I have created a group that focuses on tutoring, home schooling, homework, and other educational concerns if anyone would like to join. I am a senior at Cal State Channel Islands and would like to help anyone find a Tutor in there area... just ask and I will let you know how I can help.. Tutorz.com

Bryan

[clayssen]

Hi,

I'm a french multimedia project manager, now working as digitals developments manager in a textbooks' publishing company. I published my first educationnal CD-Rom in 1995. After that first experiment, other cd-roms, websites, and 3 books about internet / media questions. As a blogger and as an educational resources publisher, I'm very interested on EduBlogger world.

[Karina Crespo]

Hola!
Soy karina Crespo, vivo en Tucumán, al norte de Argentina.

A pesar de ver que la mayoría del grupo habla inglés, me pareció interesante intentar participar. Veré de ayudarme con un traductor o bien, aprender inglés! ;-)

Investigo sobre la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías en educación, tanto desde la experiencia con alumnos como con docentes

Los blogs y las aplicaciones web 2.0 son los temas que me interesan ultimamente como recursos de interacción en los procesos de asimilación del conocimiento y la estimulación de la creatividad.

Participé en diversas comunidades virtuales y siempre han sido grandes aprendizajes, motivo que me impulsó a comenzar a formar parte de este grupo...

Una sonrisa desde el sur, y que tengan hermosos días!
K

[Darren Draper]

Bienvenidos, Karina-

No hay mejor manera de aprender un idioma que hacer la lucha de hablarlo o escribirlo - o asi me dicen a mi al aprender espanol...

De todos modos, igracias por participar!

[Leonor Quintana]

My name is Leonor Quintana. I was born in the Basque Country (Spain) and studied to become a teacher of EFL but, when I got married and came to live in Greece 26 years ago, I started teaching Spanish instead.
I lack any formal training on these new technologies, but they have been of great help to me on a personal level and I try to make use of them in my classes.
Two sites I love are:
- Todoele: A portal for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language
- El tinglado: An experimental and collaborative blog to make use of multimedia resources for educational purposes.
Many greetings to all and congratulations to Steve Hargadon!

[Steve Hargadon]

Konrad:

Thanks for the kind words. I'm not sure 1) that I could have foreseen some of the positive ways in which these social networks have worked, or 2) that what we think today will necessarily be true tomorrow. The introduction of read/write tools into communities of practice will be interesting to watch as more and more people are involved, and I'm curious to see how things progress. I do believe we are undergoing and will continue to undergo huge cultural shifts because "Web 2.0," and I think they have the potential to be tremendously positive. I'm fascinated by the conversations that are taking place about teaching and learning that the technology seems to have facilitated.

Take care.

[judy copeland]

Ms. Halaw,
I am in instructional technology in North Carolina and desperately want to show your fantastic video to a group of educators within our county. However, when downloaded and shown on a large screen it is hardly viewable due to a very cloudy effect. The words are determinable, but the photos are barely viewable. Do you know of anything I can do to alleviate this problem? When shown very small it is better though still not clear. It is exactly what we need for professional development and hope you can help me.

judy copeland

[paine]

Hi, everybody!

My name is Painé Pintos. I am from Argentina, Córdoba and I really making a big effort to write -and as my teacher of English used to say- "think in english". My sincere apologies for all the mistakes Iam making (surely I´m killing the language!!... but it´s the only way to learn: the practice). Anyway... I teach Computation in a high school and i´m very interesting in all this "wave" of the Web 2.0.
As some of us know... we are not only teachers... the most of the time we are learning. so, here I go... here I am... learning how to participate in all this new -not so new for some- spaces of interchanges.
Thank you very much for this oportunity.
See you in the Blogosphere!.
Bye, bye.
Painé

[Steve Hargadon]

Thanks for being brave. Actually, you did very well with your English. Better than my Spanish, that's to be sure!

Thanks for making the point about being learners. Very well said!

[paine]

Well, Steve... if you want (or if you dare...:-) )... perhaps we can try with spanish anytime!... In the meantime... as you see -or "read"- I am persistent, so I still try with my Spanglish a little more!.
Bye, bye... and thank you for this virtual space for sharing and learn.
Painé