SusanG

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 * Grade Level/Discipline: ** 9th Grade English (Honors and Academic) plus Public Speaking

**Few Facts about myself:**


 * 1) I am a sports fanatic! I love watching and participating in a variety of sports. My favorite teams are the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Cavaliers (hey, Pittsburgh doesn't have a professional basketball team or it would be listed!), a nd Penn State.
 * 2) I became a first year teacher all over again when I resigned from Fairview School District in June of 2010 after 15 years and took a position with Iroquois School District. As exhausting as it was, it was the most professionally refreshing change I have made in my career.
 * 3) Not only am I taking two online courses this summer, but I'm also planning for a wedding for October 22. My fiancee, Sean, proposed on May 19, and we're now four months away! Luckily it will be a small wedding since it's our second marriages. Our four kids (my son and daughter and his two daughters) will make quite a busy household! Two more kids and we'd be the Brady Bunch!
 * 4) These are a few of my favorite things....Movies: Remember the Titans, Up ("squirrel!"), Shawshank Redemption, and Singin' in the Rain. I loved the book series of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and the movies didn't disappoint either. Shows, which I have to DVR because of my crazy schedule, include Castle, The Good Wife, Private Practice, and Grey's Anatomy. Authors: David Baldacci, John Grisham, Sandra Brown, Dan Brown, Jodi Piccoult. Music: Contemporary Christian artists like Casting Crowns, MercyMe, Aaron Shust, Kerrie Roberts, Chris Tomlin, Jeremy Camp, Michael W. Smith, Stephen Curtis Chapman, and Amy Grant.

**What I'd like to learn or get out of this course:** When I saw the Master's in Online Teaching degree option with Wilkes University and PLS, it immediately sparked an interest. With so many universities going online, this is the perfect extension of my professional career. (And if the governor of PA doesn't stop making cuts to education, it might be my only job!) So for long term goals, I want to obtain my degree. Overall, I want to be able to utilize my own class wikispace page more efficiently and purposefully instead of just an online bulletin board. Here's my classroom site. I want it to be more interactive. I want to utilize the techniques from this course in my face-to-face classes to get students excited about utilizing technology to enhance their learning potential.

**My favorite game(s):** card games like 500 Rummy and Uno, board games like Scattergories, Life, and Clue, Wii Sports Resort and Guitar Hero, and Facebook's Family Feud, Deal or No Deal, and Gardens of Time.