Ryan Goble's Comments

Thanks, Ryan. After the invitation to share a piece, I was glad to contribute. I didn't even realize it was out yet.

As for Sparty, yeah, that's a tough way to go out. Of course, with Izzo, there's always next year!

Ryan - Thank you so much for the warm welcome. Your site is amazing and so glad I came across it. I look forward to looking around and getting to know your site more and begin sharing it with my department.

I will totally post my stuff. I just need to get around to it. I'm working on an IT master's right now, and my entire spring break has been sucked up by catching up on grad school, so it's a matter of available time.

Are you on Twitter?

Congrats on 2000 members. I went to mindblue.com and it made me so happy! I will be using those resources in my lessons for next school year...

Thanks for the links! Much appreciated. Have a good weekend/week.

Hi Ryan! thanks a lot for the welcome. I am sure that i will be having an enjoyable time in this ning...I will be spreading this network among my colleagues for sure..

Ciao

Howdy Ryan! Thank you for your welcome! Yes, the Math group looks very interesting! I'll be sharing this NING with my teachers - we are looking at different ways to make Curriculum POP and this is certainly the most "fun" looking NING I've seen to date. I think they'll really like it! :) Thanks!

Ryan, thanks for the wonderful welcome! I will take your advice on to join the Media & Technology group. Looking forward to finding lots of information!

Awesome, Ryan. Thanks again for this wonderful site and your help! Really looking forward to becomig addicted to this ning :)
- Jesse McLean

Thanks Ryan for noticing my profile pic. It is me! It has symbolism on a lot of levels.

Hi, Ryan. Today I used your CTM activity as a whole novel discussion tool about Invisible Man. The students loved it! In small groups they brainstormed in different categories: characters, motifs, symbols, settings, great lines, ideas/concepts... Each category had a different color post-it note, each post-it had a separate item. Round 1: put down a post-it anywhere. Read everyone's note. Round 2: put down a new post-it and connect it to an existing one with a line and explanation of the connection. Once they got going, they didn't want to stop--somewhat magical! We'll continue tomorrow.
In a school where the technology is often broken or non-existent, this non-wired activity made the curriculum pop! Thanks!

Hi Ryan--Thanks for the warm welcome. Still trying to figure out how to navigate this site. My goal is to introduce my students, many who will be English and language arts teachers, to as many genres as possible as readers and writers. So this site will be helpful!

Ryan,

While I haven't posted a lot here, I am enjoying the site. Thank you.

Dan

OH! I got it know, Thanks.

Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the welcome! Lovin' the MC Pop updates. Also, I LOVE "Toe Jam"!
-t

Hi Ryan and Happy New Year! Doing well - thank you for the B-day wishes!

You'll be happy to hear I've been working media into some educational outreach proposals at the opera company I've been interning with. The ideas have been receiving some positive responses. Will keep you posted!

Hey Ryan!
So what the heck, you changed the books for this semester huh? First you make us suffer through those AWFUL books...and then screw us over so we can't sell them to the next group of lucky people who have you huh? Ridiculous!! haha jk =] But I hope everything is going well this semester, and do you think your wife would let me come observe her class for a few hours one day? I have to observe "exceptional" students for a different class.

Cory

Yup. I'm an idiot. Thanks for the heads-up. Fantastic piece in JML! I read it over lunch and already called up a colleague and made plans for next week to try out your CTM model in a 9th grade class that is wrapping up a unit on audience and advertisements. Thanks for the idea. I'll be sure to let you know if it bombs.