Introduce Yourself

[Cyndi Danner-Kuhn]

Please tell us who you are, about your teaching, where you are from, how long you have taught, and share one link you think pre-service (future teachers) can't live without.

[Cyndi Danner-Kuhn]

Wow, what a wealth of information. Boy I am gonna have to buy you dinner someday!!!

[Durff]

Dinner? Food? I'm there! How about NECC 2009 in DC - ok? This year I'm going virtually, not rich like Utecht.

[Cyndi Danner-Kuhn]

Deal!! This year I am going virtually as well. But, I am really excited about going to the Building Learning Communities Conference. I am betting attendance is down this year at NECC with the rising coast of everything and being in San Antonio. DC in 2009 is much more enticing!! I am really excited about going tho the BLC. Have wanted to attend this conference for several years. Also going one day early and going to an all day Web 2.0 workshop sponsored by Atomic learning. So will be a full week.
http://novemberlearning.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=v...

[Ginger Lewman]

For those of you who do not recognize the names that Mrs. Durff references here, you really should google them. These are the movers and the shakers who are helping the rest of us really change the educational horizon.

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is amazing in her passion for change, and David Warlick has been in the trenches, getting the value of blogging and networking (at the very least) recognized in classes such as these.

When I saw that you, Mrs. Durff, was participating in here, I got so excited to be close to you in our virtual world circle again. We've been dancing around one another with the same partners for over a year! It's time we talk! ;-)

[Andy Stanton]

I'm Andy Stanton, a colleague of Cyndi's at FHSU. I teach Advertising, Publication Design, MultiMedia Production, Communication in the Information Society and anything else they talk me into!

I've been teaching either full or part time at the college level since 1995 and took a full time teaching job at FHSU in 2005.

One website I would recommend would be Ning. What a great way to have students interact with each other and invite others from around the world to join in on the learning!

My blog is here -

[Cyndi Danner-Kuhn]

Can you give us the link to your blog!! and maybe even the project from also semester in the Multimedia/Comp classes.

[Alicia Denning]

Hi! My name is Alicia Denning and am currently in my last year at Fort Hays State University. I started my college career at Kansas State University in 2002. I enjoyed three years at Manhattan one of which I did not attend school. I decided to move back to Hays in 2005 to be closer to my family which is only about ten miles away. I have really enjoyed my time at Fort Hays and I am really looking forward to student teaching this fall. I will be student teaching here in Hays so that I do not have to move.

I am currently living with my future husband. We will be getting married in February of 2009. We are very busy planning our wedding and getting ready for that new chapter in our lives. I also really enjoy being so close to our families. Both of us are only ten miles from our hometown and where are parents are still living. We would love to stay in this area so that we can remain close to our families. Especially since we are ready to start our own family very soon.

I have worked for Dillons for five years now. I have enjoyed the working experience, but I look forward to starting my career as a teacher. I work full time while attending school and even had two jobs this past semester. I had a job as a paraprofessional in the resource room at a nearby elementary school. What a learning experience that was!! I had so much fun and learned so much from the students and the school. It just made me look forward to what my future holds even more. It also gave me a chance to see first hand the things that I will be experiencing in my own classroom.

I have really enjoyed this space and the information that seasoned teachers have provided for those of us just getting ready to get out there. I look forward to reading more about all of you and the wisdom that you may have to share.