• Join and participate in an online community.
• Write in your blog about your experiences in an online community.

I know participating in Facebook might be a cop-out or cliche.  However, the fact of the matter is, it's important to really analyze what I do, in order to see how it might benefit my students.  Facebook is seen as a social-network, and ( Read more... )

In your blog, respond to the following prompt:
How might you apply the ideas summarized by Karppinen when using videos in your teaching? Describe (or provide a link to) an example of a videoclip that you might incorporate into a lesson, or a video-production project that you might ask your students to complete, and explain how you would use this ( Read more... )

The title of this post might suggest a plethora of things and the words don't even seem mildly related.

The tone of this post, as a spoiler, is not fun or optimistic, but more of a drag.

Today I yet again thought of teaching as a terribly exhausting job.  I'm only a student teacher, with 31 students and with a stack of papers the size of 5 bibles ( Read more... )

And it isn't that substantive... Today I'm feeling exhausted, as illustrated by my emoticon.

Ha. ha.  Let me just say that I made that word up.  Anyway, this is probably one of a long serious of treatises that I hope to write over the following few months.

The Importance of Medievalism

And by medievalism, here, I mean the importance of learning about the Middle Ages and why I do it.  One of the main reasons why I chose to go into the field ( Read more... )

So I live in a flat, what the British (and if you haven't caught on yet, it's not that my spelling is shit, it's just that I've assumed their spelling ;)  ) call apartment.  But notions of dormitory buildings here are vastly opposite than American thinking: everyone here loves their own privacy.  No one--except for the mature students and the ' ( Read more... )

So I was working at the Careers Fair for the university here in Edinburgh.  It was a really sweet deal because it was classified as a 'one-off' job where you can work once for a couple of hours and they pay you, sometimes on the spot, sometimes only with a bank account.

It was the second day I was working for the Fair, setting up the exhibitions for ( Read more... )

[1:52:32 PM] Juliette Harris says: hey marcus
[1:52:37 PM] Juliette Harris says: it's aimee, not juliette
[1:52:57 PM] Juliette Harris says: i'm in juliette's room booking some plane flights, and saw your away message
[1:53:32 PM] Juliette Harris says: just a question for you
[1:53:48 PM] Juliette Harris says: how could a poem ABOUT religion be taken ( Read more... )

All of us, I'd like to take comfort in saying, do not so smart things.  Here's one, among many, that I've done and I hope that through my writing of this down and through my profuse apologies, somewhere in the universe someone will forgive me ( Read more... )

So I'm trying to stay with this, in updating my stuff. I've decided to ( Read more... )