Enhanced English Teacher

On November 20, 2008, the Bryant School District sent the IT Director, two other teachers, and me to Memphis, TN to the Think Ahead Apple Education Seminar.  During the two hour drive back, we excitedly discussed and planned how we could implement Apple technologies into our school district.  The germination of our ideas bloomed into T2I2 Teachers for [...]

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A couple of months ago, I listened to the LSE (London School of Economics) podcast in which Tom Friedman discussed the points he made in his book Hot, Flat, and Crowded.
You can listen to the podcast on itunes at this link.
Two things Tom Friedman said stuck with me.  First, he talked about a billboard in [...]

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I recently discovered that one of my links is broken in my Top Ten Videos for the Classroom list.
I use the commercial below to demonstrate how modern society still alludes to Greek Mythology.  The commercial features several mythological creatures, and if you are studying Theseus and the Minotaur, this chevy commercial provides a great visual [...]

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My district asked that all English teachers turn in writing samples and the prompts that we used in our classrooms.  I decided to create a portfolio binder and write a reflection of how the year went.
I teach regular 9th grade English students.  If you are interested in reading my reflections, click this link:
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At the end of my [...]

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Many videos have been created to demonstrate the need for a new educational paradigm in the 21st Century.  I have picked my favorite ten videos to share and embedded them below.  I am sure I have left out videos that I should have included, so please leave me a comment and post a URL for [...]

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Google Apps Email with Students:  This year my school district is using Google Apps for student email.  Google Apps ties all of the student email accounts together so that students can easily find one another.  It is like a big address book accessible by all students in the same Apps domain.  Why is this important?  For teachers who [...]

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This year,  my class focused on the concept of the heroic journey and how it forms the basis for many of our stories.  First, students wrestled to understand the Monomyth chapter in Joseph Campbell’s A Hero with a Thousand Faces.  Campbell retells the story of Buddha as the basis for his monomyth example.  He also references Jason, Aeneas, [...]

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