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What school or office do you work at?: Staten Island OIT

What district is your school in?: 20

What is your job title?: Asst. Director

What grade levels do you teach?: Middle (6-8)

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About you (Tell us about yourself in a few words -- professional/personal, expertise/hobbies, inspirational quotes, etc): I love cell phones -- feature rich mobile devices -- and web2.0 tools. Dalai Lama quote: "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."

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Voki.com project for review phase of writing process

I love working with innovative people! My friend, Lisa Nielsen, found this service: http://www.voki.com, and saw how it can increase interest in the review stage of the writing process. Voki.com is a service that gives you an animated avatar that talks. You can design your avatar’s appearance, add your voice, and pop it into any web2.0 compatible site (MySpace, Facebook, and Blogger are popular there). The avatar moves and speaks based on what you say. So how about having it read a student’s ess… Continue

Posted on May 12, 2008 at 10:33am —

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At 9:15pm on May 18, 2008, Suzanne Montaperto said…: Looking forward to using this neat communication tool.

At 12:45pm on May 13, 2008, Desiree Tomaselli said…: Hey Jim, So sad I missed the meeting , had quality review and observation,. Love the social networking thing. I am working on an idea about creating student accounts with the DOE using student Id numbers.
Talk to you soon and enjoy the conference hopefully I will be joining you next time.

At 10:18am on May 12, 2008, Margaret Greco said…: What do you think about the PEARLS project? Our team is having difficulty keeping up w/all the readings.