I Love to Showcase Myself

I just realized that I never posted the url to my professional website anywhere. Maybe we're a little past this now, but here it is anyway, for all the world to see. It's still under construction because it kind of took a back seat to other things. Also, as you can see, I've been having a terrible time trying to articulate my "Philosophy of Teaching." It's just so hard to sum up in a nice little paragraph what I think teaching is, or what I think/hope my teaching is. Or will be, I should say, because I'm not teaching yet. I know that I want to pursue multiple types of literacy, including media literacy. I want to incorporate a wide variety of texts, including non-fiction. I want a really writing-centered classroom with a lot of journal writing and blog writing. I hope to give students as much agency as possible within the classroom. Can any of this really be achieved? In truth, I have no idea. So, at the moment, my "Philosophy of Teaching" section is sitting there pathetically blank. Every time that I try to write a few senteces, it comes out sounding like a bunch of pre-packaged, totally-disconnected-from-reality, school of education hogwash. Or, it sounds like I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm making it all up off the top of my head. Which I don't, and I am.

Oh, also, I have tried unsuccessfully to upload the imovie that Charm and I made to my Graduate Studies Portfolio page, and even though I should have plenty of room, it doesn't seem to be working. I have 100MB to work with on Google pages and the movie is only about 12MB, but I've let it try to upload for like an hour and it just keeps saying uploading, and it never finishes. Should it really take over an hour to upload one video? I compressed it really small for the web so I didn't think it should take that long. Anyway, if anyone has thoughts or suggestions, please share.