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Mrs. Deborah Tilley
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Glenmora High School
Class Information:
Room Number: Bus Lab 2
Students per Class: 37
Class Description:
I teach ninth-twelfth grade students the subjcts of GCE web design, desktop publishing, and multi-media presentations in a small rural high school. Next year we plan to add a publications class and a computer literacy class to our schedule.
Position:
technology teacher
Needs:
GHS plans to create a newspaper that combines news from the high school, the elementary school, and the town. It is to be published by a newspaper publications class beginning in the 2008-2009 school year. GHS, which is located in Central Louisiana, has approximately three hundred students enrolled in grades 7-12 and one hundred eighty students in grades 9-12. Our school has a diverse student population with minority population of thirty-seven percent. As the teacher of this class, I can confidently teach students to write articles and to conduct interviews. I can teach them about the key elements of newspaper publication, including reporting, editing, photojournalism, layout and design, editorial pages that express opinions, business skills, and the ethics and responsibilities that journalists must consider. Preparing students to publish a quality newspaper of which the school and the community can be proud is just the beginning. To complete this goal we must have tools. We will need software, such as Tool Factory’s MultiMedia Lab V and The Tool Factory Workshop, and we will need digital cameras. Our publications class will have to use the one Sony Mavica camera that is housed in the school’s media center. Since this camera is constantly in demand, having one or more digital cameras for the exclusive use of the publications class will allow our student reporters to create a newspaper that will meet the highest journalistic standards.
Personal Information:
About Me:
For the past six years I have worked as an instructional technology facilitator in Evangeline Parish and in Boone, North Carolina. Before working as an instructional technology facilitator, I spent twenty-six years teaching English and social studies in Louisiana public schools. Nine of those years were spent here at Glenmora High School.
College and Degrees:
I received my Masters in Education in secondary teaching from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. When I was given the job of creating the school's webpage, I returned to school to earn an add-on certification in computer literacy.
Activities:
I make stained glass panels and objects. Another of my favorite things to do is Cowboy Action Shooting. If you are unfamiliar with this pastime, visit the SASS website.
Favorite Books:
I love to read. Mysteries are my favorites. I have read all of James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux series. I have read all of Catherine Coulter's FBI series, and I am awaiting the next in the Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson.
Favorite Quotes:
"Courage is being scared to death -- and saddling up anyway." by John Wayne and "Be always sure you are right - then go ahead." by Davy Crockett
Interests:
stained glass, Cowboy Action Shooting, grandchildren, horses
Employment History:
I was an English and social studies teacher in the Louisiana Public School System for 26 years before moving to North Carolina. There I was a technology facilitator in Watauga County, North Carolina for 5 years. Since coming back to Louisiana I worked as a technology facilitator in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana last year. This year I am the computer teacher at Glenmora High School in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.