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[Demetri Orlando]

 
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[Heather Ireland]

Hello all,
I am a teacher/administrator getting my eyes opened to the possibilities ... how exciting!
Happy to be here,
Heather

[Cassie Dull]

Hi everyone,
I am the Electronic Communications Specialist at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, IN. I work in the Communications Dept. and am in charge of updating the content on our web site (parktudor.org) and our social media - Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. I love looking at new ways to communicate to our many different audiences, so I look forward to seeing what other schools are doing. If you want to connect with me on Twitter, my username is @cassdull.

[Jim Miller]

Howdy, fellow educators.

I've taught English and theatre in Middle Tennesee for over ten years and I had the pleasure of working with THE Demetri Orlando at my previous appointment. After ten years in a Socratic middle school classroom and on the ms stage, I am for the first time teaching in a high school Harkness setting. We are not a laptop school, but a school with laptops. We have great IT and information services specialists on campus.
Previously, I've used Moodle and an internet 1.0 website as well as some podcasts such as the divine Ms. Grammar Girl. Still looking for ways to excite the classroom with more 2.0 usage.

Jim

[Shannon Montague]

Hello everyone!

I feel like I'm coming at this a bit late to the game. I recently left my 6th grade English/6th Grade Coordinator position at Bullis School in Potomac, MD to pursue my masters degree in Education Leadership from Columbia University. I'm enjoying being able to take the year off and really spend some time blogging, catching up on my RSS feeds and learning from a variety of people all over the country.

As an English teacher, I really tried to incorporate Web 2.0 into my classroom, but as a digital native, it was hard for me to separate things I did for fun in my personal life into something that was "teach-able" in my classroom. I'm looking forward to learning from everyone about great ways to continue to allow technology to work its magic in my classroom.

If anyone has suggestions for great blogs, podcasts, teaching tools, books, or just wants to say hi-- feel free to drop me a line!

All the best,
Shannon

[Stephen Middlebrook]

Hello all,
I am working in a support position for a new school at a new graduate university in Saudi Arabia. Previously I was the head of international schools in Berlin and Osaka and independent schools in Evanston, IL and the Boston area.

[Cassandra Turner]

Greetings!

After teaching in an elementary charter school, I now coach and train teachers on the Singapore Math curriculum. Most of my schools I work with are either charter or independent schools with the autonomy to find what works in curriculum and then use it.

Math education is my calling - Singapore Mathematics is my passion.

[James White]

Greetings Colleagues:

I teach at Severn School just north of Annapolis Maryland. I am responsible to our school's 8th graders to provide adventures in Literature, writing, and thinking. My path to teaching is broad and circuitous: from teaching fencing and self defense, history, government, and English. A life long SF and Star Trek geek, I use technology like an athlete uses shoes: something that does not interfere with my connection to the ground.

[Phil Taylor]

Greetings from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Yes, it is cold here today :-)

I have been exploring several different educational Ning groups as I grow my PLN. I was pleased to stumble upon this Ning for Independent Schools. I am curious if other members are using Diigo with their students. I have become quite a fan of the tool (discovered this Ning via a Diigo link). I experimented last year with one of my courses and hope to expand how I use Diigo with my Web Design class.

Regards,

Phil

[James White]

Phil: I am trying to add a Diigo link to the ning I created for my school. Can you please help me? I do really well with step-by-step directions.

[Phil Taylor]

Good afternoon James,

I had not created a Ning Group yet but started one just to see how it works. There may be others who have better advice but this is what I found that worked.

I created a blog post and did the following:

Adding links seems to be similar to to other programs.

Type the text you want.
Highlight the text
Click on the "chain" link button in the editor
Example Diigo
Type or Paste in the URL - press enter - you will see the html code
Press Save at the bottom of the page.



Hope that helps a bit. I also did a quick search and found a teacher's how-to wiki for his class. The steps sometimes refer to components of his Ning, but I think most will work:
https://seipleboards.wikispaces.com/How+To-Ning

Regards,

Phil