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Christopher Batchelder at Using Web 2.0 and Social Media to Encourage Deeper

posted message: Welcome to Week 4 - We will send out a summary email of this week shortly. Please make sure you post to your group task page your preference for topics! Also please visit http://k12socialmediaframework.wikispaces.com/ to check out where we are going to be building our kit. We chose a wiki based on feedback from class members.

25 Oct 2011 via courses.p2pu.org

Christopher Batchelder at Using Web 2.0 and Social Media to Encourage Deeper

posted message: There have a been a number of questions about classroom blogging. Here is a list of resources that we collected all about classroom blogging. If there's anything you're looking for that isn't here let us know and we can try to help. http://rakteachersnetwork.ning.com/notes/Blogging

15 Oct 2011 via courses.p2pu.org

Christopher Batchelder

posted message: I'm coming around to why P2PU is set up the way it is (i.e. not on Moodle). But I still think a stronger social engine would further the Peer Learning mandate (like Elgg).

04 Sep 2011 via courses.p2pu.org

Christopher Batchelder

posted message: Feeling better now that we have updated our course image :-) !

19 Aug 2011 via courses.p2pu.org

Christopher Batchelder at OER in the K-12 Classroom

posted message: Seems like the profile I had added originally was deleted? Anyone else have a problem with this (or know where I might be able to recover my original)?

12 Aug 2011 via courses.p2pu.org

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Christopher Batchelder

posted message: Why on earth didn't P2PU use Moodle or another FOSS framework to run/manage courses? Seems like trying to reinvent the wheel. Yikes!

12 Aug 2011 via courses.p2pu.org

Christopher Batchelder

Christopher Batchelder. Co-founder of Bon Education - an edTech consultancy based in the UAE working with clients in the GCC and around the world. Our focus over the past three years has been social media and networking in public schools in the UAE. In particular we have done a lot with teacher and administrator academic / instructional / professional networking (not social in the Facebook sense). I'm excited to continue this exploration with teachers from North America.

I am currently working toward my certification as a Co-Active Coach. In a previous life I worked in real estate in New York city, finance and investments in Dubai - I was also an English teacher in Japan - a substitute teacher in Fairfax County Public Schools, a penniless ceramic artist in NYC and a Japanese tea ceremony connoisseur.

Lives in: Dubai, United Arab Emirates