7th grade ILA. After teaching 10 years at Anderson High School, Nagel Middle opened -- thank goodness! Not that I did not enjoy my years at Anderson...the 7 - 12 configuration was not conducive to the middle level learner! At Nagel - it makes sense!
I love to write, read new writers, play with my children and find ways to push students to new heights!
I am planning a unit for May that is overwhelming right now. One part of the unit is poetry. I was inspired by the Favorite Poem project -- cool book. A call was made for people to submit their favorite poems -- not written by them -- written by others. They wrote a short explanation as to why it was there favorite poem -- how it touched them. The project group then contacted some of them to create video stories showing why this poem was their favorite -- the dvd is included with the book -- it… Continue
Hope you had a nice winter break. I was wondering if you or your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. We'd really like to get students involved from Ohio!
You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
My district recently had Will Richardson speak to us about technology...nings, skykes, blogs, jinga...and so much more...my head is still spinning! It thoroughly excites me (not in that way) thinking about the wealth of information that is available to our students!
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Hope you had a nice winter break. I was wondering if you or your students would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. If not, perhaps you have some educator contacts you could direct me to. We'd really like to get students involved from Ohio!
You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!