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 * Happy summer and welcome to my virtual notebook! **

I have been teaching English at Malden High School for twelve years. I recently got my ESL certificate and I will hopefully be teaching three English 10 CP classes and one double-block ESL 2 or 3 class in the upcoming school year. I am really excited about trying to integrate technology into both of these classes. I see the potential for using technology to enhance and extend the learning already going on in my classroom with virtual learning environments, and I am excited about the possiibility of using technology to create inquiry based learning experiences that encourage students to be curious and resourceful and to take charge of their own learning. I am taking this summer off (no summer school! no mcas tutoring!) and I am hoping that this course will challenge me to re-think and re-evaluate my teaching. I am so happy that this is an online course. I am planning to do a lot of the re-thinking and re-evaulating on the beach!



Of course as an English teacher I love to read! I taught __Feed__, a futuristic young adult novel about technology, media, consumerism, and the destruction of the environment, for the first time this year. I am not really a science-fiction person - I was surprised at how much I enjoyed teaching it! So. . . in addition to taking this amazing technology course this summer, I am hoping to read a lot of YA books. Here are some titles that are on my list: