I am the fifth grade teacher at Wells Central School in a tiny Adirondack hamlet in Upstate New York. I’m passionate about educational technology using open source web 2.0 tools. I believe that empowering our children with technology will give them an opportunity to find fulfilling employment and remain in the mountains if they choose.
Navigating education reform resulting from New York’s Race to the Top has become my focus. I am a member of our school’s Inquiry Team.
Education:
- BA History University of Rochester
- MSE Elementary Education Nazareth College
Software deployed in my classroom/school (past and present):
- Joomla
- RNews
- MediaWiki
- WordPressMU
- Moodle
Software I am actively working with for education:
- Elgg 1.0
- Posh
- Pligg
I operate a bakery with my wife and children in the summer.
Feel free to contact me.
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hello sir. we want a small help needed from you. we want to start a social networking website called peopletheatre.com . we want elgg open source to use as our platform. can you please help with installation.
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i just installelgg7.0 on peopletheatre.com/pt/ but i got some problems with data directory. i will done all of the work. set chmod to 777. but i can’t
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Hello Steve,
Awhile ago, you posted about our WPMU+BP article and I wanted to share with you another key communication tool I am working to deploy – Kaltura Community Edition.
This allows teachers to embed videos, allow remixing of videos, and much more. It has an editor layout similar to iMovie on the Mac. I have a demo of the product over here: http://video.dearbornschools.org/editthis/Along with the video embedding/uploading, it also allows direct recording from a webcam and embedding in a post inside WordPress if you integrate it with Red5 or FMS.
I don’t have it fully functional yet, but it opens a whole new world of interaction between students and teachers.
If you decide to deploy this as well, share with me your notes on getting it 100% functional. I can get everything to work except saving of remixes.
Also as an update, we just switched all of our teacher blogs over to WPMU+BP this summer. So now we have the student site(protected) and the teacher site (open).
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Steve,
It seems we may have not only similar interests, but living in same locale. I’m in Saratoga Springs, NY and I work for Empire State College. I’ve been researching, testing, debating on using Elgg, BuddyPress, and I part of a team that developed our college’s new internal faculty/staff Drupal-based portal. Right now I’m developing WPMU/Buddypress platform for instructional blogging: http://blogs.empire-edutools.net/I’m also interested in Drupal path too. Been keeping my eyes on OpenAtrium, and smallCore
Are you based in Greenwich? My fiance works for Ed Levin.
Perhaps we can get together for coffee/tea/beer and pick each other’s brains?
Damon Cook
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Hi Steve,
I Read some of your blog posts and I think you will find great utility in my new site http://www.elggexchange.com. Please let me know what you think or if you have any new suggestions. We are still pre-beta, so there’s much to come
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Hi Steve
I really appreciate your collection of open courseware resources found here: http://openedweb.com/blog/. [http://openedweb.com/blog/I appreciate your educational and technology resources found on your site.
I wanted to let you know about a fantastic site that I just put together called Online Courses http://www.onlinecourses.net. It features a full compendium of all of the free online courses available including in depth descriptions and detailed organization.
The site would be a great addition to your resources. I hope that you and your users find the resources helpful. Let me know what you think.
Sincerely,
CateCate Newton
Online Courses cate@onlinecourses.net
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