Jefferson High School Staff Page

email: eerdmann@bloomington.k12.mn.us

Past Courses:

  (2010-2011)  (2009-2010)

Previous Years

College Writing (Term 1 08-09) (Term 2 08-09) (Term 3 07-08) (Term 4 07-08) 

Creative Writing

English 10 (Term 3 08-09) (Term 4 08-09) 

Public Speaking

Television Production

Minnesota Writing Project 2007 Summer Institute Page

(another fun music video) 

Publications that reference or include my work:

• Albers, P., & Sanders, J.  (2010).  Literacies, the Arts, & Multimodality.  Urbana, IL: NCTE
• Beach, R., Campano, G., Borgmann, M., & Edminston, B. (under contract). Literacy tools in 21st century classrooms: Unleashing student agency (provisional title). New York: Teachers College Press.
• Beach, R., & Doerr-Stevens, C.  (in press).  "Using social networking for online role-plays to develop students’ argumentative strategies."  Journal of Educational Computing Learning.
• Beach, R., & Doerr-Stevens, C. (2009). "Learning argument practices through online role-play: Towards a rhetoric of significance and transformation."  Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 52(6), 460–468.
• Beach, R., Anson, C, Breuch, L. A., & Swiss, T. (2009). Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools. Norwood, MA: Christopher Gordon.  
• Beach, R. (2006). Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Resource Guide to Links and Activities. New York: Teachers College Press. Website: http://teachingmedialiteracy.com 
• Blanchette, Aimee. (March 31, 2009). “Hybrid courses are 'best of both worlds.’” Star Tribune. <http://www.startribune.com/local/west/42016602.html?page=1&c=y>. 

• “Jefferson teacher earns another national award.”   (August 19, 2009). Kare11.com. < http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=867033>.

• Kist, William.  (2010). The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age.  Thousand Oaks, Ca.  Corwin.  
• Schugel, James.  “Students Want Apology From Radio Talk Show Host.” WCCO News. (Apr 2, 2009 10:46 pm US/Central). <http://wcco.com/local/ktlk.student.comments.2.974841.html>.
• http://www.startribune.com/local/west/101303089.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBDia_nDaycUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Websites that reference my work:

• 2008 K12 Online Conference - https://k12online08presenters.wikispaces.com/Richard+Beach

• Candance Doerr-Steven’s teaching, research, and writing - http://nonikwe.pbwiki.com/Elizabeth-Boeser [ remove highlighting ]

• Jefferson High School Teacher Webpage (2009) - http://sites.google.com/site/missboeser/

• Jefferson High School Teacher Webpage (2008) - http://missboeser.googlepages.com/

• Minnesota Writing Project Teaching Consultant Page -  http://mwp.umn.edu/summer/2007/boeserl.html

• Minnesota TC Connection - http://mwpwiki.pbwiki.com/

• Teachers Teaching Teachers Podcast - http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?cat=396

• Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools - http://digitalwriting.pbwiki.com

• Teachingmedialiteracy.com - http://teachingmedialiteracy.com

• Using Literacy Tools -  http://constructingidentities.pbwiki.com/School+projects

Presentations:

• Writing Short Stories Online - Saturday Workshop Series for the Minnesota Department of Education and Minnesota Writing Project.
• Using Digital Tools to Teach Writing: Social Networking/Bookmarking, Annotation, and Comics Software

                    with Rick Beach - Orlando, FL  @ NCTE 2010

•  Use of Digital Writing Tools to Teach Literature and Writing  
  

 with Rick Beach - UMN @ MCTE 2010

• Virtually Face to Face: Wikis, Nings, and Hybrid Writing Classes

with MCTE President, Paige Shreeve Welle and Andy Burklund - Becker High School @ MCTE 2010

• Writing in a Digital World@ Day for Literacy - College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University 2009
• Using Digital Writing to Improve Students' Literacy Skills in the Secondary Classroom @ MWP Digital Writing Workshop 2009
• Hybrid Courses

with John Weisser and Scott Sieling JHS @ 2008 TIES Conference

• Using Online Role-play to Foster a Rhetorical Mindset

with Rick Beach - UMN and Candance Doerr-Stevens - MWP and UMN @ NCTE 2008    

Resources and some fun exposure outside the classroom:

• Hybrid Courses: A New Learning Environment (Presentation materials from the TIES 2008 Education Technology Conference)

• Weblogs in the Hybrid Classroom (Master's Research Proposal)

• “Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn in a High School Composition Class” - Rick Beach

• "Learning Argument Practices Through Online Role-Play: Toward a Rhetoric of Significance and Transformation" by Rick Beach and Candance Doerr-Stevens

• PODCAST! Teachers Teaching Teachers #138 - Using Role Play to Nurture Activist Rhetors - 02.04.09  @ Ed Tech Talk with Rick Beach and Candance Doerr-Stevens

• Langdon Perry 4-1-09 6AM: Bloomington Jefferson High School is trying hybrid classes - allowing students to go to school online. Langdon sees about 10 things wrong with this

• WCCO News: "Students Want Apology From Radio Talk Show Host"

AWARDS

2010 - NCTE Media Literacy Award

2009 - National Council of Teachers of English High School Teacher of Excellence award for the state of Minnesota

2009 - Minnesota Teacher of the Year Semifinalist - Education Minnesota

2008-2009 Jefferson High School Teacher of the Year Award

On the Tiber - 2006

<span style="font-size: 100%;" _mce_style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #000080;" _mce_style="color: #000080;">    I was born free as Caesar, so were you;
                    We both have fed as well, and we can both
                    Endure the winter's cold as well as he.
                    For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
                    The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
                    Caesar said to me, "Darest thou, Cassius, now
                    Leap in with me into this angry flood
                    And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word,
                    Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
                    And bade him follow. So indeed he did.
                    The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
                    With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
                    And stemming it with hearts of controversy.
                    But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
                    Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
                    I, as Aeneas our great ancestor
                    Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
                    The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
                    Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
                    Is now become a god, and Cassius is
                    A wretched creature and must bend his body
                    If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.</span></span> 

- Cassius in Julius Caesar (1.2.195-216)