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I am a former teacher and principal and still passionate about kids and education--and still learning. www.geniusinchildren.org is one way I stay involved now that my community is mostly virtual. I also just got my first book out. Directed at parents the title is: "The Genius in Children: bringing out the best in your child."

Hi all. I'm a grandpa of three, a first-grader and two 4 year old twins. They live just a mile from my wife and I, and we see them very often, help them with projects, homework, etc. I'm always looking for ideas to help enhance their education.

Please see #28 on my site Improve-Education.org. It's a miscellany of ideas. You'll like some of them.

(Also, I have a lot of videos on YouTube. Some are simple--merely show letters and numbers. Try: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Od_rU0nq4
This will also bring up many similar items by other people.)

Just joined up today. I'm a 6th grade Math & Science teacher in Indianapolis, Indiana. I spent the last 7 years out of the classroom helping our district implement new technologies into the classrooms. Oh how things have changed in 7 years. I feel like a first year teacher all over again.

I just saw this informative site and joined immediately. I am happy with how u grade the level for better understanding. Keep up the good work

Exploring being part of blog community as instructed by my Master's class. Edutopia has so much to offer I knew this would be a great place to start. I am interested in blogs related to social studies too.

I have been very slow to take to social media, networking, and technology. I am signing up for a variety of sites/blogs and have no idea which will be interesting and useful to me. Edutopia looks promising.

If you need any help navigating the social media waters, feel free to reach out to me (you can message me through this community or respond in this thread).

I would definitely recommend joining Twitter if you haven't already. I've met so many great educators that swear that Twitter changed their lives.

Here's a useful article we've written on Twitter:

How to Use Twitter to grow your PLN: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/twitter-expanding-pln

And here's a LiveBinder of Twitter resources you may find helpful:

http://livebinders.com/play/play/34291.

Best,
Elana

I have been on twitter as an observer for about a week and plan to start tweeting to some edchats soon Livebinders are another new thing to me. Good thing we just bought a new laptop. The family has been getting frustrated with me hogging our desktop all the time.

We have a Social Studies group now if you haven't notice. They are extremely responsive and active educators. http://www.edutopia.org/groups/social-studies Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.