Joe Mazza

Joe Mazza, USA, K-12, Family Engagement using Technology

Joe Mazza is a current doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania working toward his degree in Educational Leadership. His dissertation topic involves using social-networking technologies to enhance home-school relationships in an elementary school setting.

He is the current principal of Knapp Elementary School in the North Penn School District in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

eFACE Today
eFACE Ideas are shared to meet the challenges of family engagement obstacles using latest technologies.

Theme: eFACE, parent involvement, family, community, engagement

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Sharnon Johnston-Robinett

Sharnon Johnston-Robinett, USA, Primary, Reading

Mom of 3 sons. Edutech & 2.0/3.0 nerd. I live in East Tennessee, USA. Returning to college this Fall after a 13 year hiatus.

RTOA- Reading Teachers Online Archive - currently offline
RTOA is for all teachers that teach reading to find games and resources. RTOA was initially started as a place to pass resources(games & links on to teachers that teach the Treasures Reading Series by MMH.

Work in progress..... Always learning, always improving!

Theme: reading, online games, comprehension, reading strategies, vocabulary, spelling, IWB, links, community, elementary, curriculum, edtech, K-6, lesson plans, literacy, resources, teaching strategies, tech enhanced learning, emerging tech, free resources, educational resources, edutainment, phonics, wordpress, web 2.0, 2.0, 3.0, web 3.0, education2.0, education3.0, treasures, mmh, free

Ariellah

Ariellah, South Africa, NGO Education

Lives in South Africa with husband and three girls. Works at ORT SA. Heads the Education department in Gauteng. Loves reading and dancing. Can be found tweeting (@Ariellah).

Ariellah's Technoblog
Reflections on education, policy, ICT integration, Teachers' professional development. As well as my thought on books and raising teenagers.

Theme: technology, ICT, education, community

Laura Pasquini

Laura Pasquini, USA, Higher Education

As a self-declared geek and a self-taught techie, I am interested in bringing online collaborative tools into the realm of instruction and advising. Currently working at the University of North Texas as an Academic Advisor in the College of Business, however has previous experience at higher educations in Canada, France & the UK in student affairs and support services.

I have an M.S. in Education from Niagara University and a certificate in E-Learning from the University of Toronto, and will be pursuing a PhD in Applied Technology & Performance Improvement in the near future.

My research interests relate to curriculum and program development to encourage collaborative learning with web 2.0 tools and electronic resources, including podcasts, online social networks, photo/video sharing, social bookmarks, blogs, and wikis. I like learning, connecting & sharing knowledge.

TechKNOW Tools
Sharing ideas, resources, and tools of how educators can best connect with learners online.

More about me: Laura Pasquini

Theme: collaboration, college, connection, education, highered, K-12, learning, community, resources, socialmedia, students, teaching technology, web2.0, wikis

Bertram (Chip) Bruce

Bertram (Chip) Bruce, USA, All Sectors

I'm a Professor in Library & Information Science, Curriculum & Instruction, Bioengineering, the Center for Writing Studies, and the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During 2007-08, I held a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the National College of Ireland in Dublin.

My research goals include contributing to a conception of democratic education, meaning both the development of critical, socially-engaged citizens and of learning environments (schools, universities, libraries, museums, community centers, workplaces, ...), which are themselves democratic. Aspects of this work include research on community inquiry through collaborative community-based work, the theory of inquiry-based learning, drawing especially upon scholarship of the American pragmatists and the history of Progressive Education, and research on the affordances and constraints of new media for learning, encapsulated by the term technology-enhanced learning.

My background in computer science defines a continuing interest in the promise, as well as the perils, that information and communication technologies offer for understanding, representing, and transforming our lived experiences. Over time, that interest has led to explorations of a variety of questions regarding the nature of knowledge, democratic participation, community, technology, and literacy.

I’ve drawn from John Dewey’s theory of inquiry and the broader pragmatist tradition, including the work of Jane Addams, William James, Ella Flagg Young, and others, and perhaps most of all on studies situated in community action. Libr@ries bookSpecific questions include: (1) How can we understand learning and lived experience? (2) How does an ecological perspective on information and communication inform our understanding of individual, organizational, and societal growth? (3) How can an historical perspective inform research on learning, communities, and democratic development?

This work is discussed in recent books, including Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice (2006) and Literacy in the information age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies (2003), various articles, and presentations. It is enacted through many projects of the Community Informatics Initiative (which I co-founded with Ann Bishop), and in the development of computer systems to support collaboration and community action, such as Quill, the Inquiry Page, and Community Inquiry Labs (iLabs).

Chip's Journey
Thoughts about community, learning, and life.

A current major project is: Youth Community Informatics

Theme: community, Dewey, Addams, international, technology, social justice, democracy, history, inquiry-based learning, democratic education, social justice, new media

Katherine Pisana

Katherine Pisana, California, USA, Continuing, Higher, Adult, Educational Technology

I’m what Gilly Salmon (2002) calls the ‘Nomadict e-Moderator’: “E-moderators are as mobile as their students. Many are portfolio e-moderators, working for several educational institutions and providers, all over the world, at any one time. They work for institutions that provide them with the best support for their mobile working lives.

They have not only a highly developed awareness of the ways in which traditions of learning and expectations vary in different cultures but also the ability to work across discipline and levels of education… They can relate well to students without needing to meet with them. They focus on promoting the concepts of ownership of the learning process, active learning, independence… self-motivation and a level of autonomy.”

But, to put it more simply, I’m a teacher. I’m also a student. The only way I think we can be good teachers is to always be students. To consciously to be part of the audience so that we can remember why we’re here in the first place. To observe the world, to watch others’ journeys and vicariously learn through them, to digest and process information, turn it into knowledge… and eventually manifest wisdom.

Virtually Scholastic
In 2004 I fell into the world of educational technology while working for a university in the UK. This blog is a collection of my observations and a documentation of my evolution since that journey began. I’ll share discoveries with you of tools that I find interesting and relevant to my work.

I’ll provide feedback on how technologies add value (or not!) from a personal level as well as from a professional standpoint. I’ll also include the occasional story meant to ease the hearts of those in similar shoes (you’re not the only one!!).

Perhaps I’ll also inject an anecdote or two to stimulate the minds of those who are interested, and… of course, to inspire myself through the art of reflection.

Further Information: LinkedIn

Theme: elearning, accessibility of education, budget, economy, employment, case study, community, connection, eModerator, learning, technologist, librarian, mentor, teacher, tutor, learning object, multimedia, open source, lesson plan, curriculum, RLO, repository, tools, training, video

Jon Nicholls

Jon Nicholls, London, UK, Secondary, Creative Learning

I am the Arts College Manager, School of Creativity Co-ordinator and teacher of photography at Thomas Tallis School, a large mixed comprehensive, in Greenwich. I am married with three children.

Thomas Tallis Creative Network
A support network for the Thomas Tallis specialist arts college community partners.

Creative Tallis
Promoting creative learning at Thomas Tallis School.

Art4Kidbrooke
Developing a community arts strategy for Kidbrooke.

London Schools of Creativity
Promoting creative learning in London.

Themes: creativity, creative, learning, schools, community, cohesion

Naomi Hirsch

Naomi Hirsch, USA, Professionals, Adults, Educators, Environmental Health,

Naomi is a Program Coordinator with the Environmental Health Sciences Center Community Outreach and Education Program at Oregon State University. Her main interest is in the areas of collaboration, community building, and creating engaging educational experiences around environmental health topics using web technology such as podcasting.

PODelation
This site is designed to support and empower environmental health community outreach and education groups with learning about and incorporating new technology into their outreach programs.

Theme: podcasting, academia, community, education, outreach, multimedia, health,
environment, collaboration, science

Dale and Jarred

Dale and Jarred, USA, Primary, Secondary, All Subjects

We are both currently pre-service English Education majors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Not Your Average Teacher - currently offline
This blog is dedicated to fight the high burnout rate of young teachers by building a bridge of communication between service (current) and pre-service (pre-degree) teachers.

Theme: community, burnout, inspiration, collaboration

Jim Burke

Jim Burke, Maine, USA, All Sectors, All Subjects

I taught in elementary schools for 32 years. Now I am an technology mentor/coach in the Western Maine region.

Learning in Maine
Learning in Maine is a community blog to share ideas about learning and resources that might be helpful to others. Everyone can make comments on posts.

If you would like to be a "writer", being able to compose original posts, simply send a request to JBurkeMaine@gmail.com and an invitation will then be made.

Theme: learning, community, collaboration

Michael Stout

Michael Stout, Japan, All Sectors, English as a Foreign Language

Teacher of English to speakers of other languages. Member of Japan Association of Language Teaching, English Teachers in Japan, AsiaTEFL. Interests include learner autonomy, project work, task based language learning, EAP, vocabulary and testing.

Mr. Stout's Blog for Students and Teachers
This blog serves several purposes: communicating with my students outside of the classroom, publishing my students' work, and it serves as a resource for both students and teachers.

Theme: ELT, EFL, ESL, global issues, community