Welcome! My name is Cathy Stutzman, and I teach English at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ. I started this blog to work with my Honors English II class, which I team taught in the fall with a media specialist. We studied the learning process together, using several web 2.0 tools such as blogs, social networking sites, wikis, feeds, and personal information portals. With the start of a new semester, I am taking what I’ve learned and applying it to new courses–Expository Writing and American Lit. Continuing my learning process and encouraging learning among my students is something I feel very strongly about. I plan to reflect here about my experiences as this new group of students and I begin our quest toward life-long learning in the 21st Century.
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Apologies for posting this here but I didn’t see any “contact me” info on your blog.
I’m a high school English teacher with the unusual twist of having started my professional life as a programmer in Silicon Valley. Once I started teaching I felt the *immense* pain of grading essays. So I put my programming experience to work to build a tool to help me grade more efficiently. There’s so much repetition and manual labor involved in grading essays (e.g. writing the same dang comment over and over again!). It’s just screaming for a little tech help.
The end result is http://www.EssayTagger.com
Teachers raved about us at our debut at NCTE. My former prof, Gerald Graff, is a big believer in us. I’d love for you to check it out and let me know what you think. There’s a video on the homepage that explains how it all works. The first 30 seconds are all it really takes for the a-ha moment to kick in.
We’re a tiny, TINY startup and we’re dying to get teachers out there to discover us and talk about us. Take a look if you have the time and let me know what you think!
thanks!