Five ideas for Publisher

Five ideas for publisher:

Create a flyer for a class poetry reading
create a brochure for the fire chief to use as reference in Fahrenheit 451
Create a brochure as a book response
Create an advertisement for a product in a novel
Create a sign for a book

Monroe, Barbara (2003). Learning with Technology. English Journal. 92(3), 116-118.

A teacher gives tips as to how using E-mail In the class can make a teachers work load a bit easier. By using class email to send out notices to the whole class, the teacher is better able to stay in contact with them. Having individual e-mail makes writing and reviewing papers with students easier as both have a written record of the comments and suggestions on how to revise it. As an additional benefit, the e-mail does not have to be done face to face and therefore can be done on hours that you would normally not be able to meet with a student.

Perry, Alan (2003).PowerPoint presentations: A creative addition to the research process.

English Journal. 92 (6), 64-69.

A teacher uses PowerPoint as a secondary aspect in student’s research projects. He finds that by having the students create a PowerPoint project on the same subject as their research paper, and presenting it three weeks before the actual paper is due, more students handed in their papers on time. He also compares two different classes to see if the results are the same between his college prep classes and his tech prep classes. He finds no significant differences between the two classes. They both enjoyed the PowerPoint presentations and thought doing both the PowerPoint and the research paper was too much work.

Pieters, B. (2002). Infusing technology in the English classroom: One teacher's journey. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 2(1).

One teacher who discusses the journey into technology most teachers face. He discussed how technology improves lives in the classroom and ways to incorporate it. HE also discusses the point of Plato being afraid of the technology of his time—writing. Plato feared that people would stop speaking the oral tales. This is then compared to computers and the notion of people stopping reading.

annotated bibliography

Here it is! the three articles for class: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddkqxr5n_14gjjphw

excel document

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pcgrzIxhBGnTFD5IRJhdtcQ
this is my excel doc. it is a way for students to map thier sentences to make sure they have variety to improve their writing.

Slide show

Check out our slideshow By SuAnn, Kira, Dave

UEN

Whilst perusing the UEN website, I found a few things that would be really fun to use in my classroom. The first one was a link to CNN student news (http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/). I thought this might be a fun way for incorporating current events into the class.

another item I thought would be useful was a video that called Harry Potter: Real Worlds and Heroic Myths. It explores the folklore, myths and legends that inspired the adventures and how the books are based on a solid foundation of classical traditions that are fundamental to Western literature. I thought this would be fun and interesting for the kids to help incorporate something that they are interested in already and use that.

The third things i found was actually a link to all of the activities that are listed, by content area, for the students to do. It can go along with lessons, or just be something fun, but educational. Gave me lots of ideas of things to do in my classroom.

introduction

Hi. I'm SuAnn. You know me already Suzy, but if anyone else reads this... I guess I can make something up.

So the boring stuff... I'm married and have 3 little girls. Ok so that is not boring. They keep me very busy and they are the most important things in mny life. Here is a pic: and pic of just my girls at thanksgiving last year:
















some things about me...

I love camping. We usually go camping at least once a month from Febuary until November, so for all but like 3 months out of the year we go somewhere. Some of our favorite places are, in the cooler months, the Moab area, and Zions. in the warmer months, the Unita mountains or Payson lakes.

I am very close to all of my family. My mom lives 15 minutes away, my brother (the one that isn't in jail, lol) lives 8 blocks away. My In-laws live in the next town over. My dad lives the furthest from me and he lives in Virgin, UT.

I have two brothers. One who is 8 years older than me, and one that is 14 months younger. My husband is the youngest of 5 brothers, but there are only two left living. So I am surrounded by brothers and no sisters.

So there are a few things about me, I will think of more later. Oh today is my 30th birthday. Nothing exciting there.