currently reading...

currently reading...
Crossing to Safety

favorite novels...

  • the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky
  • anna karenina by leo tolstoy
  • cry, the beloved country by alan paton
  • the inferno by dante alighieri
  • catch-22 by joseph heller
  • doctor zhivago by boris pasternak
  • for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway
  • the secret agent by joseph conrad

favorite short stories...

  • the death of ivan ilych by leo tolstoy
  • the enduring chill by flannery o'connor
  • revelation by o'connor
  • master and man by tolstoy
  • harrison bergeron by kurt vonnegut
  • greenleaf by o'connor

other english/language arts teachers...

a sports fanatic...

In addition to managing my own fantasy football league (The League of the Jackals), I am an addicted follower of various sports. I am fanatically loyal to my favorite teams: the Minnesota Vikings (www.vikings.com); the Denver Nuggets (www.nuggets.com); the Colorado Rockies (www.coloradorockies.com); and the New Jersey Devils (www.newjerseydevils.com).

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

educational technology associations....

In perusing a number of websites for educational technology associations or organizations, I found that each site generally contains a mission statement, conferences sponsored by the association or organization, a library of related publications and journals, and a career center. Though the four associations and organizations that I looked into were all similar, they were slightly different, as exemplified by their respective mission statements: AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education...the association is an international, educational and professional not-for profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology; AECT - Association for Education Communications and Technology...the mission of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology is to promote the effective design and use of technologies in the teaching/learning process, worldwide; ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education...a nonprofit membership organization, ISTE provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education; ITEA - International Test and Evaluation Association...a professional association, chartered in Washington, D.C. as an educationally oriented, not-for-profit, technical society; that is, the organization is a collection of individuals who have a common interest in the discipline of test and evaluation and who wish to foster, preserve, and advance the art and science of test and evaluation. For more information on any of these societies, see their respective websites....

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