Zach Anderson's Colleagues

Gen. X Teacher tries to bridge the gap to Ys and Zs...and what comes after Zs??

About Me: HS English and Journalism Teacher (and Yearbook Adviser) from Northern NY state.
Confession: I don't carry a cell phone and have never sent a txt message. I like the Web just fine, for both education and entertainment, but I have no need to carry it around with me.

At 9:12pm on April 24, 2009, Jack said…: Hey Zach,

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 passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack

At 8:05pm on January 5, 2009, Jack said…: Haha, sorry! Still, we want participation from all over! :)))

At 7:09pm on December 28, 2008, Jack said…: Hi Zach!

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

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

At 2:13pm on November 24, 2008, Zach Anderson said…: Trying to get 9th graders (14 y.o.s) to take their participation in our classroom blog more seriously, i.e., to actually check their spellings, use standard language that doesn't require additional decoding, etc. Anyone with any ideas? I've tried to communicate to them that it is hard to take them seriously if they approach every subject (no matter how serious) with the same level of lassitude and sloppy writing.