1. I went to public school from K-2 then 3-6 were in a private school. After that I was home schooled for junior and senior high.
2. The school was small because me and my sister were the only students.
3. There isn't anything in particular that sticks out the most. The social events through my secondary years were probably the best since I wasnt around students my own age on a daily basis.
4. I remember everything about my teacher because she is my Mom.
5. I wasn't with other students daily but the other home schoolers I remember were, for the most part, very quiet.
6. My over all school life was busy. I did my school, I was involved with a few sports and I also had a job. Then in my senior year of high school I was able to complete my freshmen year of college. I also considered that a plus about my schooling situation. I ended up graduating college a year early.
7/8. I cant really answer these two questions because they don't apply to my situation.
9. I didn't really run into peer pressure but parental pressure was intense.I loved school and my parents knew that so they made it clear that my best was an A and I shouldn't let myself slip below my potential.

Video

This is a neat video that students made about the symbolism in the book The Lord of the Flies, which is another required trade book that high schoolers have to read. It would be a neat idea for students to make report this way and this video could be used as an example.

Video

This is a great parody situation on Hamlet on how it might of been created. Something fun for the student to see in relation to the play.

Video

This video I made for my previous class to use with the book The Giver. This book is standard in the High School curriculum. It would something fun to help solidify what the book was about.

Jeopardy

Personally, I really hate PPT. I do not like giving PPT presentations  and I dont like listening to them. Most of the time it seems like people just read the slides and I could do that myself. I am really glad to find a more interesting way to use PPT. I really like the Jeopardy game and I think that secondary students will really enjoy it. I was also glad to find out about the action buttons. Making remedial activities will be useful as well. 

podcasts

I really like the option of using podcasts for Language Arts. Especially for learning poetry. Sometimes it just takes hearing someone reading the poem for it to sink in. This would be helpful not only in the classroom but in at home when the students are studying. The New Yorker:Fiction has a great podcast that has their latest published fiction. I like this for keeping the students up to date on current literature, which is a lot of times over looked for the classics. Their is also the National Poetry Month and many other poetry websites where student can here the poems read and even discussed.

iPhoto in the classroom

I love the idea of being able to use iphoto in the classroom. I have had a Mac since Feb. and I didn't even know about half of the things that you showed us in class on how to enhance and organize photos. This will be a great tool for English/Language arts. I can have groups of students create their own short stories from pictures I have set for them or even from their own pictures. And I love the photo booth. Graphic Novels or comic books are a very popular young adult read right now and I think that the students would have a blast creating their own. I was really apprehensive about this class at first, wondering what I could really take to the classroom from it, but from just the few meetings we've had so far I have come up with a ton of ideas. I am excited about the classes to come!