Mandy McIntosh
English/Secondary Education
Montana State University 2003
About Mandy:
Hello! I am from Helena, Montana, and I am in my third year at Montana
State University, majoring in English Teaching with a minor in Reading
(k-12). I am a Resident Advisor in Hapner Hall, which is one of the
most difficult jobs in the world, but I love it and have learned so much!
I love to read (if you hadn't figured that out), snowboard, rock climb,
and do just about anything else outside. I am, I admit, a bit of
a geek...Lord of the Rings and The Matrix are two of my favorite things
that often come up in school and life discussions. I am always up
for an adventure, and strongly believe that Life is about having fun, and
opportunities to learn and grow are everywhere all of the time.
Digital picture
of me hanging out in the sub!
Scanned picture of me being silly on the stairs!
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Technology
Ideas:
One thing I would definitely do with my highschool English students would
be to have them build web pages using the same process I used in order
to build this one in order to display the work they have done, and learn
valuable web skills. I did this in my highschool Honors English class
and really enjoyed it. Click
Here to view the page I made.
I would also do a journalism unit and have my students create their own
newspaper. In order to do this, they would need to have knowledge
in using programs like Adobe Pagemaker and Photoshop. They would
be responsible for writing and editing their articles, doing layout, and
adding pictures with captions to their articles.