Max+Applegate

Podcast Episode One: //7 Billion People//‽
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A Screencast-O-Matic of my ponderences on Interactive Whiteboards--**Prezi** style. //Oh, the possibilities!//
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Welcome to my Wiki.
This is my first ever Wiki. I am really digging the ease of it. I hope to entertain and provide insight to you all!

My philosophy is in line with viewing a student's education as a starting point to the rest of their lives. If I can make their journey easier or more fun for at least //one// school year, my goal is satiated. My interests are with new media and emerging schools of thought in education practices.

I come from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor's degree in Film studies and a minor in Linguistics. These have given me a taste for utilizing both filmic representations as well as looking at English with a linguist's point-of-view.

I want to take people the farthest they want to with a topic that interests them; once I find that, I love to nourish it. Film, literary adaptation, and graphic representation really interest me. I find nothing wrong with making media abundantly available to people because one can never have enough media surrounding them.

Starting with a new//er// technology like Wikis in this course gets me excited to use it with future students of mine. I feel that it opens more doors to interesting Wen technologies than any other portal, so why not encourage online tools and pages? //Let Your Freak eFlag Fly!//

Inspiring kids to //want// to learn is my goal when it comes down to it. The greatest feeling is remembering things from your high school English teacher and knowing that //that// piece of information will be with you always. Using technology and providing inspiration to keep on learning is what I am to do. This online primer as I am on my way to graduating and becoming certified feels natural and fun. I can't wait to see what the future of online spaces will bring!

I leave you with a gift of a conversation I hope to have with my daughter one day. In Simpsons form.

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