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John Costilla

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Occupation:VP, Marketing
Expertise:Technology
Focus:Education
Grade Level:All grade levels
Education:Bachelor's Degree
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About Me

I am a member of the WAT Team with a focus on marketing and community development. I have 17 years experience in education and technology. I have been a classroom teacher, education consultant, trainer, sales manager and marketing leader. I currently reside in Texas.

Location:Denton, TX
Country:United States


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Joined: Oct-29-07
Last activity: Dec-23-08

 
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As an educator, it is in my nature to continually seek ways to learn and share knowledge with others. I always seem to gravitate to new learnings, gadgets, widgets and all kinds of 'ets' especially with the way we are able to acquire information and resources today. I absolutely love when I come across something new and I don’t know where to start or where to begin learning it. Next thing you know, you lose track of time and you're still going at it. Just when you think you have figured out how to do something, a new way of doing it comes along, maybe a way you hadn’t thought of doing it before and that’s where the fun begins… That’s WeAreTeachers. 

At WeAreTeachers, we are eager to share and learn ways to be an effective member of this community by helping to create great programs and identifying great resources that members bring to the network. I look forward to your input and your contributions.

 

John M Costilla

VP, Marketing

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jcostilla@weareteachers.com 


 
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Distrupting Class Outside the Classroom
Probably out of context from the entire article, I read this excerpt from the following post: The Role of Educational Leaders in Implementing Web 2.0 from Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org by Miguel Disruptive technologies --exemplified by the ability to publish at will in text, audio, video formats or any combination of those--enhance our freedom of speech, freedom to assemble in virtual...
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Share your great writing tips
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Writing teachers can turn their favorite teaching tricks into gold in a contest aimed at gathering best practices for teaching writing in the classroom. The contest rewards the best ideas submitted by teachers as judged by their peers. Now through January 1, 2009, teachers who submit tips at http://contest.thewritingteacher. org and garner at least ten votes will win a copy of any book in...
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Building Personal Brand
"Interactions + Feelings = Brand" Products are brands, Celebrities are brands and even ordinary people are building their own brand with Web 2.0. Influence and interactions can catapult your brand. David Armano provides a very practical overview of building your own personal brand leveraging social media. 5 Tips for Branding U. 1. Be Ubiquitous 2. Be Social 3. Be...
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2008-12-03 14:52:51.0, created by John Costilla
  
New blog post: The PD Learning Curve: http://tinyurl.com/6djrbr
2008-10-28 01:56:25.0, created by Neely Floyd
  
Hey John-I almost have a normal teaching schedule! Only two more football games...
2008-10-01 23:03:11.0, created by Holly Peterson
  
Yeah...I'm not talking about the Cowboys right now... I blame it all on Jessica. LOL!!!
2008-09-19 04:11:53.0, created by John Costilla
  
(Sept. 19 & 20) Access a Live Ustream video feed to Classroom 2.0 PA @ http://wiki.classroom20.com/CR%2020%20LIVE%20Philadelphia%2008
2008-09-12 15:58:03.0, created by Derek Geeting
  
Hello John, how's it going?


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