Hi Bill -- Thanks for joining the Edutopia community. Good to have you with us! Would love to hear more about how you manage teaching AND a full-time day job. Do you have weekend classes? Or? Will definitely check out your site.

The teaching of the model classes has been for College for Kids, Boy Scouts, park & rec, youth center, and helping a science teacher friend. I have to take vacation for this most of the time. Last December I went to a regional National Science Teachers convention in Cincinnati Ohio as a guest of the Academy of Model Aeronautics.
These are some pictures from a school event: http://www.hbci.com/~bkuhl/physics.htm

Pictures from the science convention are on my TeacherTube account.
Bill

Hi, I'm Jeannie.

I teach 5th grade in Alameda, CA but I live in San Francisco. I LOVE teaching. I'm a big education dork and I love this website! So, thanks!

I just added a new article about my experience with water(pop bottle) rockets. This is a new format I am trying with many small pictures and limited text, people I know seem to like it.

http://www.scienceguy.org/Home/WaterRockets.aspx

Bill Kuhl

This is my first visit to this site. I'm looking to learn new ways to become a better teacher and integrate technology into my classroom. I love teaching but feel I must diversify my skills due to the economy and to be prepared for the future, whatever it holds. Looking forward to the growth!!

Glad to join the group. I have taught for 32 years and my latest work has been to promote 21st century skills with the neccessary integration of technology. I have presented both regionaly and nationaly and host a blog and wiki to promote 21st century education. Please feel free to visit and comment.
Wiki - http://21centuryedtech.wikispaces.com/
Blog - http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/

Hi everyone,
I am a third year education student at McGill University and was introduced to this site by one of my professors. I really want to change the face of public education, especially in Canada where provincial regulations make it very difficult for new ideas and practices to be put in place. I believe I have a pretty good grasp on how this generation (my generation) has grown up with technology and how important it is to integrate it into the classroom and would love to get involved in discussions surrounding that.

After 5 years teaching high school science in large traditional public schools, I found myself unemployed. I wrote an article summary from a PBL article in The Science Teacher while a student in a post-baccalaureate certification program in 2002; I have been interested in PBL since before I was teaching. However I was unable to implement anything resembling PBL. My job search focus is now in the charter school realm to hopefully find a teaching position where a PBL curriculum is used.

Glad you found us! Mike, we're looking to set up a technology integration group here very soon.

Julee and Taylor, have you checked out the group for new teachers called Bridges: The First Years of Practice ?
http://www.edutopia.org/groups/bridges-first-years-practice
I'm sure there are other teachers who are there who might share some of your stories.

Richard, there's a Project Learning group here with some interesting discussions, including stories of people starting brand new project learning schools:
http://www.edutopia.org/groups/project-learning

Hi I just signed up for this website. It looks great. Is there a section for language instruction? I'm a middle school Spanish teacher.
Thanks,
Doug