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Website or Blog: http://www.culver.k12.or.us/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=24

About Me:: I teach 5th grade in Central Oregon. I enjoy using technology to enhance the curriculum and ignite students' enthusiasm for learning. This past year we worked on animating segments of American History. Past years we have created student generated content websites, podcasts, and e-portfolios. I use our fifth graders often to partner with younger students (Kinders - 2nd Grade) and use technology together.

At 12:38pm on July 5, 2008, Tim Chase said…: Hi Becky! Next year in DC?
~Tim

At 1:36am on July 4, 2008, Melanie said…: I'd love to share ideas this coming year. Maybe we can even get the students to make contact with each other. I don't have the kids on epals, but I signed onto an epal group to learn more about it. They do, however, get email addresses from the school. I'll be thinking more about the best way to do this!

At 5:17am on July 3, 2008, Phil Cruver said…: Hello Becky,
The focus of the $90 million ED-LINKS program is improved Teacher Professional Development for the 629,674 teachers in Pakistan. With the launching the ED-LINKS Learning 2.0 Platform next month we will be encouraging teacher-generated content employing interactive and collaborative technologies and are exploring a framework of standards like NETS. In Pakistan, the cost of teacher professional development is 25.5 times the cost of training a secondary school student. So rather than continuing to incur “High Per Capita Cost for Low Grade Teachers” (quote taken from USAID), we intend to record lectures from the top Pakistan teachers for distribution over the Internet resulting in a quality education for millions of students.

Let me know if you have ideas on how we could work together on this.
Phil

At 4:21pm on July 1, 2008, Melanie said…: Hi Becky!
Congrats on baby! I'm also following NECC virtually. Glad to meet another 5th grade teacher, especially one with so much expertise. I'd love to hear more about your projects...

At 2:05pm on July 1, 2008, Melanie Holtsman said…: You are very welcome - so glad to hear you're following!

At 12:58pm on July 1, 2008, Denise Lindstrom said…: It went really well! The teachers I worked with still want to use Ning next year and we will be writing an article on what we learned about Digital Citizenship to help other K-12 teachers feel better about using social networks. I don't know if the students read more books as a result but the did develop important 21st century literacies