You Say You Want a Revolution?

I'm Megan Bottle, an English teacher from Cortland, New York. This blog is a glimpse into my ELA classroom, reflections on teaching practices, lesson plans, and everything in between

10.01.2008

One Post Oughta Sum it Up:

9.28.2008

No Words.

There are no words to express how I feel right now. But I'll try. I've been on a quest for the past few days to resurrect this blog ...

9.27.2008

Teaching Reading in English Class

I'm preparing for the possible start of a teaching position in a 9th grade classroom, and one concern that I have going into this classr...

9.22.2008

It's Been A While

...Yeah... so.... *awkward silence ensues...* Long time, no talk, eh? Anyway, I had an interview today for a 9th Grade teaching position at ...

5.09.2007

Leader Talk

I could have sworn that I posted about this site that I found, but I can't find the post, so apparently, I never actually posted the pos...

5.02.2007

20 Minutes.... Phew!

In the 20 minute crunch time, here's what I did: Mrs. Bottle's Class Webpage I also set up a quick blog I linked the blog to the web...

20 Minutes.... Phew!

In the 20 minute crunch time, here's what I did: Mrs. Bottle's Class Webpage I also set up a quick blog I linked the blog to the web...

4.25.2007

Musings by Barb

Ray: "How big is your thumb drive?" Barb: "It's big. About double the size of a normal one." Yep. She really said ...

Pokinitis

This was just too cute-- from the perspective of a person who can't wait to be a Mommy.... (s0meday, ehh...) Anyway, from the perspectiv...

My Shape-Shifting Portfolio

Shape-Shifting Portfolio (shAp-shifting port-fO-lE-"O) - collections of skills - for example, eductional, social, service, and sprots e...

My Inspiration

I've never really been one to single out a person and say "This person is the best..." that's why this assignment has been...

4.24.2007

Better Late Than Never....

This one's a little late, but hey, it's here... The article about the Baltimore school surprised me not because they're using th...

4.22.2007

Poem Generator

I just came across the Educational Technology Training Center's Poem Generator. It's kind of fun to play around with-- I made a few ...

4.19.2007

We Don't Need No Education!!

...How many times have we returned to this Pink Floyd song throughout this semester??... And how true is it?? Anyway, I was going to post my...

4.18.2007

I'm a Leacher... or a Tearner?

Yes, that's right, I both taught and learned ... so is that a Leacher? or a Tearner? (I prefer Leacher... reminds me of Liger) I taught...

4.17.2007

KaPow! Media Literacy! Wham!

Mine and Jess Brown's Media LiteracyProject is a secret... dun dun dun.... No, I'm kidding. Really. We're leaning towards an ana...

4.16.2007

Scribd - Thanks Barb

So... I was just checking out the new content on everyone's blogs, and I came across a post from Barb which introduces us to a sort of b...

Lack of Motivation? And Whose Fault is it?

As future teachers, we have enough to worry about with learning the content area of our majors and the methods for teaching them. Now, facto...

4.14.2007

iBook Reflection

So, the iBook project was fun, but it did work out quite as our group had planned. Taking pictures was pretty fun- we had plenty of outtak...

4.11.2007

Online Bullying

So much of our class time is spent on all of the great things that technology has to offer to students and teachers. I (almost) wholehearted...

4.04.2007

The Zine Project: Innovation or Oxymoron?

"The Zine Project: Innovation or Oxymoron?" by Tobi Jacobi appeared in the English Journal, vol. 96, no. 4; March 2007 ___________...

4.03.2007

Technology Counts Chat Transcript

Phew... there was a lot of information contained in the chat transcript, so I'd like to highlight just a few questions/responses and com...

Technology Counts: A Digital Decade

I'm honestly not surprised by any of the information in the Technology Counts article. It's pretty obvious that billions of dollars ...

4.02.2007

Liverpool High Laptop Program

I was just watching the 11:00 news- specifically News Channel 9, and one story really stood out to me. The news story told of the controvers...

4.01.2007

Lehman Alternative School

I found my Lehman notes! (refer to my previous post.) So, we walked into the school and were immediately greeted by Chris Sperry's daugh...

3.31.2007

Lehman Alternative

I'm excited to post on the Lehman Alternative / Chris Sperry field trip that we took on Wednesday... I seem to have misplaced my notes w...

3.27.2007

"Girls, finish your homework..."

"...people in China and India are starving for your jobs." (Friedman 277) ------------------------------------------------------- ...

3.21.2007

Woah.

So earlier today I posted a blog commenting on Dr. Stearns' introduction to "Google Lit Trips" (Read below for more info...) H...

Google Lit Trips

Google Lit Trips As with many new things that I've been introduced to, I was skeptical of this technique upon first glance. Then I liste...

3.12.2007

Chester Gillette Joural

Chester Gillette Journal This article was printed on the front page of the Cortland Standard on March 10, 2007. If only we had some way to s...

3.08.2007

Thoughts...

I had an interesting thought this morning as I was reflecting on Jennifer Donnelly's speech at the Conference. She said that much of he...

3.07.2007

Funny?? Or True....

Ok so by process of random searching on YouTube (the next best thing besides sliced bread) I found this video. I think it's supposed to...

3.01.2007

Reflection on Last Night's Class

Last night's class seemed different to me- I can't really put a name on what the feeling was, but it was kind of exciting. To see e...

2.28.2007

Teaching in Global 3.0 - Post #1

Two quotations stood out to me from this week's reading in Friedman: 1: "Just as we finished creating this new, more horizontal pl...

2.25.2007

Catching Up- Quiz Q1 & 2 From Last Week

The six principles of PLS are directly reflected in Renee Hobbs' research on Media Literacy in High School English. Here's the refl...

2.20.2007

Technology Grants

Over the past few weeks, several people in our class have expressed a concern that their future schools will not have an ideal amount of tec...

2.08.2007

Non-407 Feedback? Who knew?

rob said... Megan,Thanks for taking the time to listen to the podcast. I'd love to hear more of your thoughts about this topic. How do ...

2.07.2007

Little Tidbit :o)

I came across this blog in search for a couple of articles this morning. It's not immediately relevant to an ELA classroom, however the...

2.06.2007

Will Richardson / Rob Mancabelli

The presentation as a whole was very concise and easy to follow. I felt like I was right there listening to them. I also appreciated the lin...

Warlick's Web Suggestions

Many of the sites mentioned in Chapter 2 of David Warlick's book were, to me, simplistic. We already know about many of them. I did find...

2.05.2007

T eam Project Update-

Here's an update on our team project: We have a brainstorm for the content of the podcast and each team member has an individual task wi...

1.30.2007

More Slam Poetry, 'Cause Y'all Loved it So Much!

MORE slam poetry... There are three more videos by these guys on YouTube- In the interest of space, I won't post them all, but I encoura...

1.26.2007

Why is the Librarian Your Best Friend?

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/columnists/johnson/johnson007.shtml Last semester in 374, Dr. Stearns invited Luann Rottman, the libra...

1.24.2007

NCATE/NCTE Standards

The most important element of the NCATE/NCTE Standards is the continual incorporation of "different media." As a future teacher m...

Welcome

Hello all wanderers into the Blog realm... I've dabbled into the wonders of Blogdom here and there, but this time, (thanks to ENG 307) m...

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