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=Welcome to my Wiki home page!=

I am a Master's in Teaching candidate at Eastern Washington University. I will be graduating this summer and moving to Phoenix to teach a Language Arts- based photojournalism class at a middle school. I have my Bachelor's and M.A. in English from Washington State University. Prior to working on my Master's in Teaching, I taught English 101 at Washington State for two years. I had wanted to become a college professor, but decided that my heart was really in secondary education. I enjoy the greater connection I get to have with my students, their parents, and the community through teaching secondary Language Arts. My passion within my subject area is Literature, which I studied in-depth for six years. Teaching writing is a major part of my job, though. I have some experience in creative writing and photography, but little to no experience with journalism. This wiki page will follow my process in creating technologically savvy lessons for my new photojournalism classes. In my Media Literacy for Teachers class, I am learning about many new tools for instruction. A few of these are the interactive board, weblogs, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, and podcasts. I wish to use all of these tools in my future photojournalism classes, but first I need to experiment with them and find the most effective ways to implement them into my instruction. This class is really opening my eyes to the increasing possibilities for engaging students and connecting their parents and even the world to the learning that is going on in my classroom. I encourage anyone out there who has tips for implementing these tools into the middle school photojournalism class to comment with your ideas!