Comments on: Serendipity, Second Life, and the importance of being nine http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2007/05/30/serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Sylvia Martinez http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2007/05/30/serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine/comment-page-1/#comment-1493 Sylvia Martinez Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:13:18 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/05/30/serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine/#comment-1493 Hi Kevin, This is terrific, thanks for sharing your story and adding even more to it! Mrs. Swain's club sounds awesome too. Kids and teachers, there's some viral energy! Sylvia PS Girls rule... you know the rest ;-) Hi Kevin,
This is terrific, thanks for sharing your story and adding even more to it! Mrs. Swain’s club sounds awesome too. Kids and teachers, there’s some viral energy!

Sylvia

PS Girls rule… you know the rest ;-)

]]> By: Kevin Jarrett http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2007/05/30/serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine/comment-page-1/#comment-1492 Kevin Jarrett Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:57:41 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/05/30/serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine/#comment-1492 Hi Sylvia! Thanks for the kudos, I'll be passing them on at our year-end club pizza party a week from today, as part of my presentation to the kids and their families. We raffle off a couple of laptops (refurbished, of course), have other cool door prizes, eat pizza and run around. It's great fun! FYI, our most recent team donated systems to the Atlantic County's Women's Center, our second such donation since inception of the club: http://acwc.org/ It was expecially meaningful since this team was entirely made up of girls (and, no offense to the boys I've had all year, but this was my best team EVER.) For more, here's our Flickr stream for this group (they took the pictures themselves): http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/sets/763639/ As proud as I am of these kids and our club, if you REALLY want to get blown away, let me tell you about Mrs. Sandy Swain's club at Galloway Township Middle School. Her classroom eBoard is here: http://swains.gtps.site.eboard.com/ but the club doesn't have a website ... mostly because she's been too busy running the most awesome club ever. She saw me give a presentation about our club and took the idea to her district, expanded and improved on it, and now has the most incredible school-based computer refurbishing operation I've ever seen. She's got staff, workspace, donations from local businesses, and TONIGHT, her club is donating 22 systems (!) which came from the local Coast Guard base. 22!!! That's more than we do ALL YEAR!!! Plus, her club does much more formal training than we do - all I've got is that space under a table in my room - and ME - but we do the best we can!!! I guess that's what it's all about at the end of the day ... we all do what we can ... and it's so much fun, we don't even notice we're working 18 hours a day!!! HA!!! Take care, thanks again, see you in SL! Best, -kj- Hi Sylvia! Thanks for the kudos, I’ll be passing them on at our year-end club pizza party a week from today, as part of my presentation to the kids and their families. We raffle off a couple of laptops (refurbished, of course), have other cool door prizes, eat pizza and run around. It’s great fun!

FYI, our most recent team donated systems to the Atlantic County’s Women’s Center, our second such donation since inception of the club:

http://acwc.org/

It was expecially meaningful since this team was entirely made up of girls (and, no offense to the boys I’ve had all year, but this was my best team EVER.)

For more, here’s our Flickr stream for this group (they took the pictures themselves):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/sets/763639/

As proud as I am of these kids and our club, if you REALLY want to get blown away, let me tell you about Mrs. Sandy Swain’s club at Galloway Township Middle School.

Her classroom eBoard is here: http://swains.gtps.site.eboard.com/ but the club doesn’t have a website … mostly because she’s been too busy running the most awesome club ever. She saw me give a presentation about our club and took the idea to her district, expanded and improved on it, and now has the most incredible school-based computer refurbishing operation I’ve ever seen. She’s got staff, workspace, donations from local businesses, and TONIGHT, her club is donating 22 systems (!) which came from the local Coast Guard base. 22!!! That’s more than we do ALL YEAR!!! Plus, her club does much more formal training than we do – all I’ve got is that space under a table in my room – and ME – but we do the best we can!!!

I guess that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day … we all do what we can … and it’s so much fun, we don’t even notice we’re working 18 hours a day!!! HA!!!

Take care, thanks again, see you in SL!

Best,

-kj-

]]> By: pete reilly http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2007/05/30/serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine/comment-page-1/#comment-1451 pete reilly Wed, 30 May 2007 21:33:39 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/05/30/serendipity-second-life-and-the-importance-of-being-nine/#comment-1451 Sylvia, Thank you for bringing to the surface the hidden beliefs that so many well meaning educators have about what kids can and can't do. Pete Sylvia,
Thank you for bringing to the surface the hidden beliefs that so many well meaning educators have about what kids can and can’t do.
Pete

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