Welcome, HaikuMasters! Please introduce yourselves

[Renee Hochstetler]

Let others in the group know who you are, where you come from, and
what you're interested in.

[Kathi Rogers]

Hi, everyone, this is Kathi Rogers, here. MSD of Lawrence Township
webmaster and Haiku LMS guru. This Google Group is all new to me, so
I hope I know what I'm doing here....
As for Haiku, all I can say is Way Cool! We love it here in Lawrence
Township! We use if for sharing Professional Development and all
types of courses K-12, so we'd love to learn more about what other
folks are doing and how they are using it.
We have some groups of teachers who would love to get their student
work out on the web, so we are especially interested in hearing about
how other folks are using Haiku Wiki's and student portfolios.

Thanks for this opportunity to learn and share!

[Dan Sitter]

My name is Dan Sitter, I'm a Social Studies teacher in Fond du Lac,
WI. I got started with Haiku because my fellow teacher Liz Severson
had a class webpage and I wanted something better then her. A weak
reason but it led me to Haiku, which I'll forever be grateful. Our
district now has purchased a license and we've got over 2500 accounts
in less than a year of using the system. I guess I'm a Haiku Master,
but I think I'm more of just a teacher who found a great, easy tool to
make my teaching more effective and professional. I look forward to
sharing and hearing from Haiku users from all over the country.

Question: Is this Group just for a few people or will all users get
to jump in? I started a Google Group for just Fond du Lac teachers
using Haiku and was thinking of shutting that down and transferring
them all to this Group. Any ideas? Thanks.

[Renee Hochstetler]

The Group is open to anyone using Haiku. We simply invited a small
group initially just to get the ball rolling. We'd love to have more
people involved - the more the merrier, as they say - so feel free to
direct people here.

Thanks!

Renee

[Matt D]

Hello everyone, I'm Matt DeSalvo, Technology Specialist at St. Francis
Catholic High School in Gainesville FL. This is our first year using
Haiku and it has been a huge improvement over our previous solution
(Edline) in terms of ease of use and aesthetics.
We are interested in hearing about other schools integration of Haiku
and their SIS, as that is our weak point of our setup currently. We
look forward to our teachers continuing to become more comfortable
with the interface and increase the amount of coursework and materials
available through their portals.

On Oct 5, 2:55 pm, Renee Hochstetler <ren...@haikulearning.com> wrote:

[melissacole]

Hi! I am Melissa Cole, Director of Academic Technology at St. Mary's
Episcopal School in Memphis, Tn. We are new to Haiku this year. I am
actually testing this program with half of my 9-12 faculty and one 5th
grade teacher. It has been a very positive experience. My teachers are
actually using the program so they are often a step, or two, or three
ahead of me! I'm interested in knowing how teachers are using Haiku. I
want to continue to learn as much as I can about this program as I
expect we will continue to use Haiku and expand its presence at our
school.

[Pete DiDonato]

Hello Friends, I'm Pete DiDonato & I work for Springside School and
Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia. We were a Blackboard school
for years (8+?), then and now a Moodle Shop but Haiku is taking over
by storm, although subtly (-; Haiku has wider adoption, enthusiasm,
and overall support than any LMS we have ever used. We've been with
this fantastic web 2.0 software for ~ a year and faculty are our best
ambassadors, although our Director of Ed Tech is a tremendous, if not
understated, champion of all things 21C. We look forward to
connecting in this group.
Check us out @ http://www.springside.org

[Online School for Girls]

I am Molly Rumsey, Interim Director of the Online School for Girls.
We use Haiku for all of our courses! We have students from 13 states
and Australia taking course courses and Haiku works really well for
all our teachers and students.

[Jenna]

Hi my name is Jenna Ream and I am a Haiku enthusiast! I am in Boulder/
Denver Colorado and am jealous of all of you actively using haiku
because I think it is an amazing tool! I used to teach with haiku for
a small alternative licensure program, but now am working for the
University of Colorado where I teach online and hybrid, unfortunately
using eCollege. I take any opportunity I can to move my students to
haiku. I keep advocating for the small organizations with whom I
work, and my kids school to recognize the ease and flexibility of
haiku so hope to be using it more again soon in the future!

On Oct 5, 12:55 pm, Renee Hochstetler <ren...@haikulearning.com>
wrote:

[TP]

Hello everyone.
My name is Tony Perez and I am the Director of Technology at Atlanta
Girls' School.  We are an 11 year old independent, 6-12 school.  From
the day the school opened we have been a purpose-built one-to-one
school.  As Georgia's only Apple Distinguished School, our faculty
have become known for their innovative and authentic use of
technology 
in the classroom.  After a six month search, we began
trialling Haiku 
with select teachers last year and fully implemented
the LMS in August 
of this year.  We were highly influenced by the
Haiku experience of 
the Online School for Girls (of which AGS is a
charter member) and 
wanted to send a shout out to Molly Rumsey -
thank you Molly for 
connecting us with Bryan and the rest of the
Haiku team!  Despite my 
assurances that Haiku really was "that easy,"
faculty went in to pre- 
planning with a bit of trepidation, knowing
that they had two days to 
move their classes online with Haiku.  I
confess to high-fiving my 
team when every single teacher was up in
Haiku and ready to teach 
after one day.  Training, design, upload and
import roster - it was 
that easy!  Since then we have stressed the
Haiku system, going over 
in storage and bandwidth in our first month.
 It has changed the way 
or faculty teaches - from streaming audio and
video tin Spanish 1A to 
collaborative note taking in AP World
History.  We have begun 
developing Haiku-based "portals" for our
school board, media center, 
admission and sports departments,
allowing us to send users to a 
single page from which to leap off in
to schedules, custom teacher- 
requested research pages, tech info
and, up next - clubs.  Haiku has 
become our home on the web!  I am
looking forward to learning from 
each of you and to sharing what we
have learned.  Cheers everyone!

[Mike]

Hi all.
My name is Mike Gwaltney and I teach for the Online School for Girls
(see Molly Rumsey's post above), and at Marlborough School in Los
Angeles, Ca.
As Molly said, we use Haiku at OSG. Meanwhile, we have adopted it as
our official (but optional) LMS at Marlborough. We have about 40
teachers using it at various levels of depth and sophistication. This
is Marlborough's first attempt at using a full LMS and all our users
are reporting that they find it easy to use and fun too. I'm a
technology integration specialist/coach to other Marlborough teachers
and I have been conducting workshops for our faculty on how to use
Haiku, and on pedagogical considerations for teaching blended classes.
I really like how elegant Haiku is compared to Blackboard or Moodle.
For the typical front-line teacher, it seems to be about the best LMS
available today.
I'm looking forward to learning from everyone here, and to
collaborating with you all. I'm very interested in educational
technology and its possibilities for democratizing knowledge.
I'm active on Twitter and would love to connect there too
(@MikeGwaltney).
Cheers.

On Oct 5, 11:55 am, Renee Hochstetler <ren...@haikulearning.com>
wrote:

[Maia Berens]

Hi,
I see I am the unusual one here. I work with adults only. I am a
trainer of life coaches and when I created my coaching program I did
scads of research until came upon Haiku LMS. It is fabulous and I know
there are features I'm not using that would be great to add. I guess
that's enough for an introduction. Interested to learn more about
everyone.

On Oct 5, 11:55 am, Renee Hochstetler <ren...@haikulearning.com>
wrote:

[Tracy]

Hi everyone,
I am an LMS specialist for Riverside Unified School District in
Riverside, CA. My primary role is to support the Learning Management
Systems currently in use. We currently have two due to the creation
of our virtual school about 4 years ago. This year we started using
Haiku and everyone who has used it LOVES it, including me. We
currently have teachers using Haiku for blended learning with
students
and as a web presence for parent interaction and we are using it for
staff development. I am anxious to read about others' experiences
with Haiku for both in class instruction and for online PD.

On Oct 5, 11:55 am, Renee Hochstetler <ren...@haikulearning.com>
wrote:

[Shawn Clary]

Hello everyone! I am Shawn. I am the IT Director at YULA High
Schools in Los Angeles. We use Haiku for every class. This is our
first year and so far teachers and students are loving it! Bryan and
the team are amazing and I couldn't be happier! (But don't let that
fool you. I still love suggesting features!)



On Oct 5, 10:55 am, Renee Hochstetler <ren...@haikulearning.com>
wrote:

[Bob Walker, Jr]

Hi Everyone,

I'm Bob Walker. I am the Music Director and Integrated Technology
Director for Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy in Dover, NH. We are
a Public Charter High School with a mission based in the Arts and
Technology. This is also our first year with Haiku. (actually we did a
test run for a quarter as well). Haiku is integrated into all of our
courses, clubs and professional development. We're looking forward to
growing with it.

[eddy...@gmail.com]

My name is Eddy Guo.  I am volunteer Google App for Education administrator for K-W Chinese School. Our url is http://www.kwcschool.com We have 400 K-12 students. Our school session is every Saturday morning.  I have been using Google App for Edu in our school for 2 years.  I just started Kaiku trial last week. I guess I am not a Haiku Master yet. 

[admini...@workeffective.org]

My name is Ray Budge, from Australia.

I teach in Community Services and Welfare Department of our Adult Education College and Coordinate the distance program for Diploma students from all over Australia.

Haiku is easy for my teachers to use and administer and we are trialling this for a possible further roll-out within our section.

I would love to get in touch with others who are doing the same but it seems we are mainly populated by K-12 at the moment.

Look forward to touching base with you guys ... anyone on Google +  ????

[kfenn...@gmail.com]

Kate Fennema--I am the Haiku Administrator at Visitation in Mendota Heights, MN.  We are using Haiku M-12 and have had much success.  Our teachers find this program quite user friendly.  We are also looking to make a better transition with our SIS, which is Power School.

[Lita Bledsoe]

Hi everyone,

I'm Lita Bledsoe, Operations and Training Director for Landry Academy.  We provide online classes for homeschool students around the world and I'm really enjoying the simplicity and ease of use for the Haiku LMS.  I've used lots of the "big guys" and even had a hand in developing one, and this is the cleanest, most intuitive UI of any I've seen before.  As a more non-traditional school, we have unique needs and Haiku has been very responsive to our requests.  I look forward to hearing some of the great ideas and requests from the group and hope to throw in a few of my own. 

[mburke]

Hi Elijah,

Welcome to Haiku! When using wikiprojects, a lot depends on your goal. Wikiprojects can be set up as one project for a class, section, group, or individual with varying levels of privacy and accessibility on each. Since you've said that you want students to work individually, I'd suggest setting up an individual project. Each student will be able to log in individually and control her own notes and you'll be able to see who's spilling along well in class. As an option, you can allow the rest of the class to view other students' notes.

[Brian, Seiler]

Hi, I'm Brian Seiler from St. Edward High School in Lakewood Ohio. We are a Catholic school in the Holy Cross Tradition with 900 boys on the shores of Lake Erie. We are new to haiku this year. 

Best regards,


Brian T. Seiler
Director of Technology
St. Edward High School
13500 Detroit Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107
P. (216) 521-2953
F. (216) 221-4609

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Heather Nuzzo <hnuz...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all, I have been a member of the group for ages, but I figured that I should join with my married name. So Heather Mannella is now Heather Nuzzo. =)

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[Melissa Smith]

This is my second year acting as the domain manager of Haiku at Presbyterian Day School in Memphis, TN.  We have boys from PK-6th grade, and are a 1:1 laptop school.  Currently, only 5th and 6th grade uses Haiku and is tied to our Google Apps account.  This year is our first year to invite students outside of our school to take a virtual History class led by one of our teachers, alongside 10 advanced History students. We also use Haiku for professional development and faculty meetings. I can not express enough thanks to the support group and Elizabeth Falcon.  The help and support I have received has been outstanding. 

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Presbyterian Day School
Memphis, TN
901-842-4600
pdsmemphis.org

PDS strives to glorify God by developing boys in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. We offer 640 boys in PK-6th grade a rigorous program focused on 21st century skills.

[Allison Drew]

I've been watching emails come in and out without introducing myself.

I'm Allison Drew, K-8 Spanish at Joseph Sears School, in Kenilworth, IL.  ¡Hola!

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Jason McDonald <jmcd...@gcschool.org> wrote:

Hi there, 

I am Jason McDonald, the Haiku administrator for Grace Church School's new high school in Cooper Square, Manhattan. GCS is expanding after over a hundred years as a K-8. We started with 59 students for 2012-2013, and will add a grade each year until 2015-2016 when we reach capacity. 

I am learning Haiku as we go. Lots of questions. Wish someone shared this Google GRoup with me sooner! 

Thanks

Jason

On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 2:55:10 PM UTC-4, Renee Hochstetler wrote:

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what you're interested in.

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[Lisa Fusco]

Hi,

My name is  Lisa Fusco, I am the Director of Technology at The Moriah School in Englewood, NJ. We launched Haiku in September and will go live on October 10th. Quite a push to get everything done and get all our teachers trained. I am grateful to Anthony Showalter and Elizabeth Falcon for the relentless support and to this group which has helped me articulate questions and find answers.

Looking forward to learning to Haiku with all of you.

Lisa

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[mare]

I have several teachers willing to share classes with you if you can give me a direct email address. email me at

mch...@holyangels.org

On Monday, November 5, 2012 11:14:31 AM UTC-5, Llabrie wrote:

Hi everyone,

My name is Leo LaBrie and I teach in Richmond, Illinois.  I was able to pilot Haiku last spring for my school and now we are implementing it for all teachers.  I really like this LMS and it's also the topic of my action research paper for my type 75 certification.  I teach French and Psychology and we are going to be doing some teacher training this week on building a Haiku.  I'm very confident in the social science and the foreign language applications for Haiku but not so much in our other areas.  I was wondering if anyone out there would mind sharing their class with me so I can show our teachers what some other sites look like for other subjects.  Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Here are the links to my sites: AP Psychology, French 2, & Psychology   Here are the departments that we are training this week:

English

Science

Special Education

Health & P.E.

Consumer & Tech Ed.

Math

Fine Arts

Foreign language

Social Studies

[Dave Brubaker]

HI, Dave Brubaker from Delaware Valley Friends School near Philadelphia, PA.  I am just beginning a pilot for my school, after a few teachers gave glowing reports about Haiku.  Since our SIS is PowerSchool, I am interested in interoperability between the systems to make the systems management a bit smoother.  We recently started using the NWEA MAP testing system which uses a similar export-import method of maintaining currency, and it would be great to have our other systems such as Follett-Destiny Library system, Silverpoint website management system, and Safari Montage do such things, a very big holiday wish indeed.  My role is the directing of these academic systems, and enhancing our assistive technologies program since all our students have learning differences, this a reason to have an agile friendly interface for an online course system.  So I look forward to seeing how our teachers and students interact with Haiku.  They have the ultimate say in these issues no matter how much I may think I have the perfect solution; they have proved themselves right time and time again! 

Dave

Dave Brubaker
Academic Systems Director
Delaware Valley Friends School
19 E. Central Ave.
Paoli, PA 19301
610.640.4150  x 2830
215/589-3054 mobile
610.296.9970 fax
dave.b...@dvfs.org
www.dvfs.org

On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 2:55:10 PM UTC-4, Renee Hochstetler wrote:

[Carolyn Oates]

Not as long as there is Google Translate:

Hi everyone (I hope it does not disturb too much the fact that I write in Italian with English but I would not be so easy), working as a teacher in two schools of higher education in Calabria (southern Italy). Students' ages 13-18. In one of the schools also teach two classes of students-adults during the afternoon and evening. I started using Haiku for a few weeks and I really liked it. Of course for me and my students (yet few have accepted the invitation to register) is to overcome the problem of lack of skill in the use of, however I find it very intuitive to use the various tools provided. I hope to become more proficient in the use of haiku to become more effective with my students.

On Saturday, January 5, 2013 10:18:14 AM UTC-6, Carlo Reda wrote:

Salve a tutti (spero non disturbi troppo il fatto che scrivo in italiano ma con l'inglese non mi sarebbe altrettanto semplice), lavoro come insegnante presso due scuole dell'istruzione superiore in Calabria (sud Italia). Età degli studenti 13-18. In una delle scuole insegno anche in due classi di studenti-adulti nelle ore pomeridiane e serali. Ho iniziato a utilizzare Haiku da qualche settimana e mi è molto piaciuto. Naturalmente per me e i miei studenti (ancora pochi hanno accettato l'invito a registrarsi) c'è da superare il problema della scarsa abilità nell'uso dell'inglese, comunque trovo molto intuitivo l'utilizzo dei vari strumenti offerti. Spero di diventare ancora più abile nell'utilizzo di haiku per diventare più efficace con i miei studenti.

[Jesse D Robinson]

Hello all,

My name is Jesse Robinson and I am the Director of Information Technology at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, CT.  I am excited to be joining this group and have just finished launching Haiku at our school.   Momentum amongst our teachers is growing and I am looking forward to learning interesting ways to extend Haiku even further.

Regards,

Jesse

On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 2:55:10 PM UTC-4, Renee Hochstetler wrote:

[David Fawcett]

Greetings: I teach history at the Webb Schools in Claremont, CA, opened an account on Haiku yesterday and have two classes and discussion threads up and running today. Love the site. Far from being a "master," I'd love to connect with any history teachers who "have been there and done that" so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel. Also wonder if it is possible to set up an interscholastic "classroom" featuring a common discussion thread. Our theme for the year is the continuing definition and development of American identity. Just a thought. 

[Shane Pinnell]

Shane Pinnell
Network Engineer at Perris Union High School District in SoCal.
Love programming in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Databases etc...

[dkra...@lawrenceville.org]

Hi,

Dina Kravets with the Lawrenceville School. 

We piloted Haiku last year, liked it, and are now slowly transitioning to it. This term ~30 teachers are using it. 

[Erica Hartman]

Hello

My name is Erica Hartman amd I am the  IT director at West Morris Regional High School District in NJ

We just started in September and we have 2800 students and 250 teachers. About 30% of teachers are using Haiku currently; however the glitches with google Drive and https are driving me nuts!

[Justin Goff]

Hello, Erica!

Welcome to the Haiku Users Group! I'm very sorry to hear that you've been having trouble with Google Drive attachments and with HTTPS. For what it's worth, both of these problems are actually external to Haiku - though in some ways, that just makes them more frustrating! 

My apologies, Erica, for the fact that you're seeing some of this information twice, but I thought it might be worth re-posting here:

• As discussed in this Haiku Users Group thread, Google is having an intermittent problem with downloaded PDF files displaying a "clear cache and cookies" messages instead of the actual document. These PDFs are the source for several types of Google Doc attachment in Haiku, so sometimes when students attach Google files to the Dropbox, or when teachers attach PDF copies of Google files to Blocks, they get the "clear cache and cookies" PDF, too. This is happening to Google users outside of Haiku, too, so for the time being there is much to do but wait for a fix from Google.
• As discussed in this Users Group thread, the mixed-content messages Erica's referring to stem from embedding HTTP content in an HTTPS page. In late August, Firefox started displaying these mixed-content warnings, meaning that all major web browsers now show these messages by default. This can cause problems when users embedded HTTP content in Haiku, which (like most secure web services) uses HTTPS. This Haiku Knowledgebase article describes a workaround for end-users, but for security reasons it's generally best to use HTTPS content only. (Recently, most web services have started using embed codes that are compatible with either HTTP or HTTPS. YouTube is an example.) In any case, these mixed-content warnings aren't Haiku-specific: they're universal to anyone trying to embed HTTP content on an HTTPS page.

Of course, if any users out there have some ideas about solutions or workarounds, we'd love to hear about them in the threads I linked to above!

Cheers,

Justin

[Mary Kraus]

Hi All, I'm Mary Kraus, Project Specialist for Online and Blended Learning at the San Diego County Office of Education. Here's my Haiku on Haiku: 

 

Haiku really ROCKS

An Awesome tool for learning

LOVE the Haiku team!

[Justin Goff]

Hi, Mary!

That Haiku Haiku just made our day!

Cheers,

Justin

[Paul Swanson]

Hello everyone!

I just got pointed to this group by Justin at the Haiku support team - thanks!

My name is Paul and I'm the MSHS Tech Coordinator for the United Nations International School in Hanoi, Vietnam.  We're transitioning this year from a Sharepoint based LMS to Haiku, and since this is just my first year out here it's been a little bit crazy.  We love Haiku, but a combination of poor international internet connections, uneven hardware, unnecessary TMG rules, buggy web filtering, and changes with Haiku scripts have caused some difficulties.  Still, hopefully by next year we'll have ironed most of them out.

Right now the big task I'm taking on is trying to figure out how to adapt Haiku's gradebook to our Inter Baccalaureate (IB) frame work.  We use both the Middle Years Program (MYP) and the Diploma Program (DP).  I know that Haiku is interested in working with more IB school in the near future, but I'm a little nervous about being in beta-testing with all of this.  If any of you guys work in IB schools as well, we should get together and talk about how to work through this.

Cheers,

Paul

[Brian, Seiler]

Paul, we are an IB school but we are grades 9-12 only and don't us the middle years grading schema.

Best regards,


Brian T. Seiler
Director of Technology
St. Edward High School
13500 Detroit Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107

P. (216) 221-3776 Ext. 210
F. (216) 221-4609

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[Allison Hart]

Welcome Paul!

My friend and former ASDubai colleague, Tarique is new at your school this year as well!  Say hello for me!   We're not IB, but I'm working on Standards Based Grading here.   
-Allison 

[nich...@setonmontessori.org]

Hello everybody! Looks like we are bringing this thread back! My name is Nick. I am the LMS Administrator and Instructional Designer for a collaborative of Montessori teacher educator programs (TEP). My home program is Seton Montessori Institute. One of our collaborative partners is in Chicago while the other is in New York. I live right outside of Boston. We just entered our second year with Haiku and things are going well. We talked about it the other week that anything that could have been considered an “issue” was not something critical, particularly how fast things get solved.  It is a stark contrast to using Bb 9.1 for my other job. I am also a Senior Lecturer at Lesley University where I teach face to face, but also hybrid and online. For Lesley I also develop the online psychology courses.