Enhanced English Teacher

I recently purchased Crafting Expository Argument by Michael Degen.  I am always looking for the magic book that will provide me with all of the answers to help me turn my students into writers.
In the “Foreword to Teachers,” Degen said a few things that all teachers of writing should note.
Too many teachers merely assign a [...]

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Andrew Marcinek wrote a blog post to inspire educators to collaborate online with just one blog comment a day.  He is calling his idea the One Comment a Day Project.
After reading his post, I realized that I absorb quite a bit of valuable information from my fellow educators online, and very often I do so [...]

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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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Recently, I learned about Vodpod while Twittering.  I follow @michelledodd and she follows @MrKp.  Michelle RT (re-tweet-ed) Steve Kirpatrick’s tweet.

I clicked on the link URL in Michelle’s re-tweet.
I checked out Vodpod and decided to create an account.  It only took a few minutes to upload two You Tube videos to see how it works.  Vodpod [...]

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For the past two years, I have been fortunate that my school district has paid for me to attend HSTI.  I especially enjoy the pre-conference workshops.  In the past, I have attended workshops taught by Karen Fasimpaur.  She is teaching a workshop on becoming a min-movie producer this year which I hope I will be [...]

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