J Grear

Male

Whitehall, PA

United States

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School / Work Affiliation
Whitehall HS
About Me
I am an English teacher in Pennsylvania. I'm an 13 year veteran trying to reinvent myself through technology and 21st Century skills.

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  • Mark Cruthers

    Hi J,

    With your interest in Education Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.

    Dec 29, 2008

  • Jack

    Hi J!

    Hope you're enjoying the winter break. I was wondering if you, your educator contacts or students would be interested in participating in a nationwide Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. We'd really like to get more students involved from Pennsylvania!

    You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

    Dec 30, 2008

  • Jack

    Hey J,

    Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

    That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

    Do you mind telling students and your colleagues again?

    Thanks,
    Jack

    Apr 24, 2009