Showing posts with label Presentations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presentations. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2012
GCTE
Tomorrow morning I am presenting at the Georgia Council of Teachers of English. This promises to be a smaller group than High Schools that work, but I am just as excited. I have so much more to share this time. Student samples, anecdotes, and actual results.... I'll tell you all about it tomorrow.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
PCA/ACA
This past week I was officially accepted to present at the National PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) Conference in Boston, April 11-14. I will be presenting in the Education, Teaching, History and Popular Culture "area" or "thread." I'm pretty pumped about it. I also have GCTE (Georgia Council of Teachers of English) at Callaway Gardens, Georgia in February. Jada Genter will be with me on the one. PCA/ACA, I'm on my own. Big Things!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Kick In The Head, Poetry, and 206 No Exit
Drama One Act Competition this week so things have been crazy!
We are doing the poetry unit transitioning into The Odyssey. That's not to say there is no prose, but more poetic language than not. Additionally the students are doing a poetry project I call, "Kick In The Head." The title comes from the book it is based on. Kick In The Head shows 29 different poem forms. So I present them all and the kids have to write one example of 25 of the forms. Further, 10 of them need to be about Supernatural (this helps give them theme and maybe I'll get a neat anthology out of it...) The idea is to get them to try and play with poetic forms.
206: No Exit is one of my favorite episodes. I pair it with Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" and another poem about relationships we have with our parents, though from the parent's view. No Exit is fascinating to to me because I think it is so much about the nature of the relationship between parents and children and mothers and fathers and the roles they play in our lives.
The kids should have gotten it today, but as I was at competition and part of it was that I wasn't comfortable with a substitute teacher doing it, but, honestly, I wanted to be the one to do it with them... The directions I left for my sub (the kids did skill drills for the day) were the most type A I have ever given. This whole program is changing the way I look at my class, how I teach, my expectations and who I am in the classroom, even, I think. Who knew?
Also I have been getting some amazing reports from other teachers. I am clearing it with them first but I hope to post some of their anecdotes soon.... Amazing stuff.
Last, I will be presenting at NCTE after all on Moodles. That just blows my mind. I can't wait!
We are doing the poetry unit transitioning into The Odyssey. That's not to say there is no prose, but more poetic language than not. Additionally the students are doing a poetry project I call, "Kick In The Head." The title comes from the book it is based on. Kick In The Head shows 29 different poem forms. So I present them all and the kids have to write one example of 25 of the forms. Further, 10 of them need to be about Supernatural (this helps give them theme and maybe I'll get a neat anthology out of it...) The idea is to get them to try and play with poetic forms.
206: No Exit is one of my favorite episodes. I pair it with Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" and another poem about relationships we have with our parents, though from the parent's view. No Exit is fascinating to to me because I think it is so much about the nature of the relationship between parents and children and mothers and fathers and the roles they play in our lives.
The kids should have gotten it today, but as I was at competition and part of it was that I wasn't comfortable with a substitute teacher doing it, but, honestly, I wanted to be the one to do it with them... The directions I left for my sub (the kids did skill drills for the day) were the most type A I have ever given. This whole program is changing the way I look at my class, how I teach, my expectations and who I am in the classroom, even, I think. Who knew?
Also I have been getting some amazing reports from other teachers. I am clearing it with them first but I hope to post some of their anecdotes soon.... Amazing stuff.
Last, I will be presenting at NCTE after all on Moodles. That just blows my mind. I can't wait!
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
You Tube
It's funny considering that I am a teacher specializing in using visual media to teach literature but I don't much care to be on film myself... Between my tall stature (I'm just over 6'3 barefoot) and broad shoulders (my good Scottish and German ancestry is sort of apparent in my build) and general self consciousness film is not my favorite conveyance. I'll give speeches in front of thousands... I have even, a time or two (a long time ago, mind) but don't make me sit in front of a camera.
That said, a new friend of mine, a Mary Moline, interviewed me for her blog: ilovehatemycity.com. The videos are also accessible on youtube. Just type Teaching Literature Supernaturally in the search engine on the main site.
So, granted only from the waist up, you can see me discussing my experiences with TLS so far. Feel free to check me out there. (I watch and pretend it's a greatly similar looking cousin talking who sounds just like me... )
We are on break this week, so that's about all I have to offer...
Oh, and I was officially invited this morning to present at the NCTE conference in Nashville this November. I will be presenting a post conference workshop called Moodle:From Scratch about, (oddly enough) Moodles. I will be using my TLS Moodle as the example for the workshop.
That said, a new friend of mine, a Mary Moline, interviewed me for her blog: ilovehatemycity.com. The videos are also accessible on youtube. Just type Teaching Literature Supernaturally in the search engine on the main site.
So, granted only from the waist up, you can see me discussing my experiences with TLS so far. Feel free to check me out there. (I watch and pretend it's a greatly similar looking cousin talking who sounds just like me... )
We are on break this week, so that's about all I have to offer...
Oh, and I was officially invited this morning to present at the NCTE conference in Nashville this November. I will be presenting a post conference workshop called Moodle:From Scratch about, (oddly enough) Moodles. I will be using my TLS Moodle as the example for the workshop.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
The Conference: Debrief....
So, I presented. There were 130 people there to hear about TLS. I had been praying for 30, one hundred more is pretty amazing.
We came around the corner to the room, all these teachers are sitting on the floor and Jada (Genter) says to me, "You realize all these people are here, waiting to see you...?"
Then Jada SOLD three of my books, I only had five, before the program even started. I hadn't planned to sell ANYTHING. She also sold the five hard copies of the mini-unit and it was on the website where people could get it for free. We burned CD's that night and sold five of those!
People listened to me. I spoke for 25 minutes about intent and the basic program, Jada spent 8 minutes on "Supernatural" (she did a great job!) and then I finished up with methodology and Bells and Whistles...
Between the books, the mini-unit and the CD's I burned that night for people, I made $200, almost covers the first printing of the book back in February....
More important and more exciting, people get it. People are excited! People want to try.
I am trying to figure out this cost thing. Originally I figured I'd just give it to people, but I see now that I need to charge something... Someone actually stole one of the copies of the book!... I mean I guess enough people are interested and I need to keep track and tabs and all that other stuff, so I have to figure this out. I think Amazon might have some good options and that hard copies are the best way to go to cut down on plagiarism. Maybe I can have that up by September.
Standing up there in my suit talking was so exhilarating. Ten years of work, paying off, and inside I am a screaming, giggling, teenage girl who can't believe people get it and care and want to try...
The website looks terrific and I am trying to figure out how to print more books and people are emailing me and asking for the materials and...
The experience has taught me that the world, the classroom is ready for TLS, maybe even a little hungry for it. I think I am ready too!
We came around the corner to the room, all these teachers are sitting on the floor and Jada (Genter) says to me, "You realize all these people are here, waiting to see you...?"
Then Jada SOLD three of my books, I only had five, before the program even started. I hadn't planned to sell ANYTHING. She also sold the five hard copies of the mini-unit and it was on the website where people could get it for free. We burned CD's that night and sold five of those!
People listened to me. I spoke for 25 minutes about intent and the basic program, Jada spent 8 minutes on "Supernatural" (she did a great job!) and then I finished up with methodology and Bells and Whistles...
Between the books, the mini-unit and the CD's I burned that night for people, I made $200, almost covers the first printing of the book back in February....
More important and more exciting, people get it. People are excited! People want to try.
I am trying to figure out this cost thing. Originally I figured I'd just give it to people, but I see now that I need to charge something... Someone actually stole one of the copies of the book!... I mean I guess enough people are interested and I need to keep track and tabs and all that other stuff, so I have to figure this out. I think Amazon might have some good options and that hard copies are the best way to go to cut down on plagiarism. Maybe I can have that up by September.
Standing up there in my suit talking was so exhilarating. Ten years of work, paying off, and inside I am a screaming, giggling, teenage girl who can't believe people get it and care and want to try...
The website looks terrific and I am trying to figure out how to print more books and people are emailing me and asking for the materials and...
The experience has taught me that the world, the classroom is ready for TLS, maybe even a little hungry for it. I think I am ready too!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
High Schools That Work!
Today I am presenting TLS at The SREB's High Schools That Work Summer Staff Development Conference. This is the beginning, I imagine.
The website for TLS is up and live. TLS4students.org.
We are in Bayou E at the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center and the theatre seats 235. We have 100 fliers and we are pressed, dressed and ready to go.
If you want more information you can go to the High Schools That Work Conference site and we are presentation 137 on page 33 of the program.
I can't wait to show everyone what Teaching Literature Supernaturally can do!
The website for TLS is up and live. TLS4students.org.
We are in Bayou E at the Gaylord Hotel and Convention Center and the theatre seats 235. We have 100 fliers and we are pressed, dressed and ready to go.
If you want more information you can go to the High Schools That Work Conference site and we are presentation 137 on page 33 of the program.
I can't wait to show everyone what Teaching Literature Supernaturally can do!
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