Welcome!

Thanks for stopping by. This is the site for my thoughts on pop culture and its use in teaching. I'm sure I'll have plenty to say throughout the semester, but for now...I'll just add a little about myself.

I have always been a Minnesotan, but I moved to Iowa in June. I don't have a job yet, but I hope that will change next Tuesday with an itinerant position here in Iowa! My background is Deaf Education. I worked at the MN State Academy for the Deaf in Faribault for 5 years and will miss my team and my students! Since moving to Iowa, I have learned a lot of things: everyone here asks 'Debit or Credit?' when you try to buy something--not sure why they do that, plastic and glass bottles cost an extra 5 cents and you only that money back by bringing them to an approved recycling center--no one told me this, so who knows how many nickles I threw away my first three months here, and the ENTIRE state stops what they are doing for the Iowa State Vs U of Iowa games. Other than that, it seems like a pretty great place!

I will be finished with my M. Ed. in December when I finish this class and another online class I'm taking at the same time. It's going to be a crazy fall, but the light at the end of the tunnel is a pretty great motivator!

I'm looking forward to thinking about the use of pop culture in the classroom and finding practical ways to use it that are 'sell-able' to the average administrator.