Wednesday, October 10, 2007

5 publishing gigs

Well the microsoft publisher opens many doors for me as an Enlgish teacher.
1- I made an advertisement for Captain Ahab's ship the Pequod. This is a great hook for getting into my unit on Moby Dick.
2- This thing has resume templates! Have you any idea how much easier that will be for my students? I know a resume is an assignment that high school students have to complete, and now they can look nice!
3- There is a banner feature, which I will use to decorate my class with fun sayings, quotes, or jokes. The classroom isn't worth visiting if it isn't a little bit colorful.
4- I could have my students use the menu feature to make a menu for the crew in Moby Dick. After reading the book it would be funny to see what they came up with.
5- And finally, I would love to see what my students could come up with as far as a business card for themselves AND for characters in the books we are reading. Such as: Narrator from the Tell Tale Heart. Very patient, doesn't work well under pressure, phone number: Local loony bin

Monday, September 10, 2007

3 uen tools baby

The first thing I found was a page where it taught students how to create haikou's. http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=5829

I also found the page where I can create PDF files, which I think would be awesome because I can put pictures in the files and have them print better. http://www.uen.org/createpdf/control;jsessionid=51BCF8F5919FB1AAA7817E010B1A74B3

Finally, I find an excellenct source for my English classes journal prompts at http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=7340. Classic stuff

my personal page is http://my.uen.org/personal/202536

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

It's the muppet show with special guest: Justin Reeves!

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to get things started on the muppet show tonight. Why do we always come here, I guess we'll never know. It's like a kind of torture to have to watch the show. So now let's get things started with the most sensational inspriational celebrational muppetational, THIS IS WHAT WE CALL THE MUPPET SHOOOOOOOW! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Hi, I'm Justin Reeves. I am 25 years old, I'm NOT divorced, and I live in a VAN down by the RIVER! Actually I live in Pleasant Grove. I just moved down from Logan where I graduated along side my wife from Utah State University. I love photography. I also love Rock and Roll music. I love the Smashing Pumpkins and can't wait to see them here on the 28th of September at UVSC. This summer I flew to San Francisco and slept on the sidewalk for 12 hours until I got into a very small historic club called "The Fillmore." I stood on the front row and combined my love of their music with photography, I'll have to post those pictures later. I'm currently trying to get my teaching credentials so that I can teach English. Why English? Well there are a lot less wrong answers in English. I love poetry. I love being creative. I want to write a great screenplay some day and get all famous and stuff like that Matt Damon character. Heck maybe I'll even star in the next few Bourne movies. I love the outdoors. I go on a camping trip to Southwestern Yellowstone every summer and I flyfish until my legs go numb from the cold, and then I fish some more. I love to play basketball as well. Every Tuesday night I play ball with my best friends and cousins. Last night I totally rocked them, it was a good time. I love Star Wars, I love Football, I love Ashley my wife and our yet to be gender determined fetus thing inside my wife :) Live is awesome, however I'm super stressed since I realize that being a teacher is a financial joke and so I will finish the year and then probably do something completely different. But that's life, it's a rollercoaster. Sometimes you throw up on the rollercoaster and it gets all over the person next to you. I've never thrown up on a rollercoaster, but I should. I think everybody should throw up on a tilt-a-whirl at some point in their life. Stay Classy San Diego- Justin Farrell Freaking Reeves