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Welcome to Connect|ED!

Connect|ED is Progressive Educator's community of Education Professionals!

Progressive Educator believes relationships are the bedrock of teaching and learning. We create opportunities for connecting, learning and sharing so that together we might transform our classrooms, schools, communities and public education.

Connect|ED is one way Progressive Educator uses technology to inspire, train, and energize teachers for the long haul so that we may flourish in this challenging yet vital profession.

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Tami Brass joined Progressive Educator. Leave a Comment for Tami Brass. Jul 17

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What Should I Do Here on Connect|ED?

Connect|ED is a growing community for creative, committed teachers! This is your community, you can participate in many ways:

• Upload and share your own videos

• Find a great video on Google, youTube, teacherTube? Share it with your friends on Connect|ED

• Do you have photos or a video of a great project you did with your students? Why not share your expertise!?

• Not sure what to start with?

• Why not leave a comment on someone else's article or photo.

• Ask a question or answer a question in our forum.

• Why not create a new group for your teachers?

We hope you will help us create a helpful, thriving community of educators.

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WiZiQ free Virtual Classroom

What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform. Mark www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment… Continue

Posted by Mark Cruthers on June 30th, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment (Add)

I'm a Member, Now What???

One thing that I really enjoy about being the English Language Development Support Teacher at my school is that I get to visit a lot of teacher's classrooms! I love looking at all the wonderful ways teachers put up materials and organize themselves. I love being able to watch other teacher's teach.

Another thing I have found to be extremely helpful is to read other teacher's websites. The sites most helpful to me lately are the ones where the teacher has lots of pictures… Continue

Posted by Matt Callison on January 8th, 2008 at 10:35pm — No Comments (Add)

ReadAlouds.org

I am opening up another new website ReadAlouds.org to beta testers. This site is similar/will be similar to Amazon.com, except just for Read Alouds. Also if you have extra links to Read Aloud resources, just leave them here as a comment!

I created this website because I can never… Continue

Posted by Matt Callison on January 8th, 2008 at 10:26pm — No Comments (Add)

Enough is Enough!

Okay, I had this idea to create a social networking site for teachers at least a year ago. I fiddled and faddled around, trying to create something on my own and worried about so many little details and tried different solutions and...and...and.

This is where my perfectionism is annoying. In looki… Continue

Posted by Matt Callison on January 8th, 2008 at 1:54am — 1 Comment (Add)

BookLook

BookLook is another one of my projects. It is a site for students to create and share audio book reviews. I would love some addition beta testers for the site! Let me know...or sign-up at BookLook.

Posted by Matt Callison on January 8th, 2008 at 1:16am — 1 Comment (Add)