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"The Electronic Classroom"
2001-2002,
2000-2001, 1999-2000,
1998-1999. These classroom web sites include electronic discussions, electronic
portfolios, and instructional pages. In addition to my classroom sites, I have created
other sites such as the web site for the Penn High School Chapter of the
Anti-Defamation League, I.T.W.-Indiana Teachers of
Writing and the Penn-Harris-Madison Planetarium.
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Sing the Classroom Electr[on]ic: Using the Internet to Foster a
Student-Centered Classroom- In this
presentation, I detail my research on digitizing the
classroom. I talk about three primary parts: the classroom web site as
information disseminator, on-line literary discussions, and electronic portfolios as
authentic assessment devices.
- most recently presented October 2001, Indiana Teachers of
Writing, Bloomington, IN.
- first presented on September, 2000 to Indiana Teachers of Writing, Indianapolis, IN.
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I Sing the Classroom Electr[on]ic: Using the Internet to Foster a Student-Centered Classroom- [Draft]
In this article I am extolling the value of digitizing the classroom. Though it is
but a draft, it articulates many of my beliefs about using the internet as a tool in
education today. [draft]
See the article as it was recently published in T.H.E.
Journal.
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Navigating the
Pine- a personal experience
narrative recently published in the South Bend Tribune.
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Electronic
Tutorials- These web-based tutorials help teachers at the
Penn-Harris-Madison School District upload/turn-in/publish their
grades. Such tutorials are the type of web-based training materials
I am beginning to develop. You will find the links to them at the
bottom of the page. (Exporting Grades,
Uploading
Grades)
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"Connecting the
Mortals:"An On-line Exchange based on The Odyssey by Homer- A plan for distance
learning known as an On-line Exchange between three classes from across the nation.
This exchange first took place in the spring of 1998, but I will be conducting a similar
exchange this year with a class from Vermont.
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Fiction: "Links" (or Garages II")
August, 2000, "Dead Girl" July 1999, "Senior" May
1999, "The Berlin Auction School of Business, 1998.
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"Dynamics of Creation:
Teaching: Writing Process in the Late Twentieth
Century" Presented to the faculties at Saint Joseph's Elementary and Saint
Monica's Elementary Schools in Mishawaka IN. Penn teacher Shannon Gray and I
collaborated on a teacher inservice on teaching the writing process in December of 1999.
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Advertising in Schools- Big and small businesses often
help school programs go. Without their support, many
extra-curricular programs would fall by the wayside. Does their
benevolence give businesses the right to advertise to the same students
they help in the public institutions that make up America's public school
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"In Church"- A personal
experience essay I composed for a lunch-time reading at the Indiana Teachers of Writing
Conference in Indianapolis. I have also used it in my classroom as a model for my
students when they were composing their personal experience narratives.
presented on
15 September, 2000 to Indiana Teachers of Writing, Indianapolis, IN.
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"Summer of Ninety Nine"
A recent summer spent in northern Indiana began with a rediculous foray with a yellow
kickball. This essay was published in the Penn High School literary magazine.
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The
Cross-Age Tutoring Project: Learning to Appreciate the Written Word- This
article, published in the journal ARTE (Association of Rural Teachers of English), details
my research as an Eighth Grade Language Arts Teacher in 1997-1998.
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Vision in Lord of the Flies- In
this PowerPoint Presentation, I am making suggestions about the theme of Vision
in Lord of the Flies by Sir William S. Golding.
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Chapter Three: |
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FBLA presentation-
One of my earliest Powerpoint and Web Site explorations, I presented this information to
the Future Business Leaders of America Organization at Rio Rico High School in 1998.
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