So this only sort of has anything to do with media in the classroom, but I figured it had a lot to do with teaching so I would blog about it. Admittedly I am a bookworm, and also a nerd. In high school I was fortunate to take an English elective of science fiction. Lots of interesting discussion about technology in that class. Anyways, a couple weeks ago I was in my local Barnes & Noble looking for a short story we had read (mind you this was fifteen years ago...so I only had a memory of the storyline and not the story). After googling everything I could think of, I gave up trying to find the name of the story. Then I thought about looking up the teacher on my school's website. He is still teaching and I decided to email him. Imagine my excitement when I received a reply the next day that he A. remembered me, B. knew exactly what story I was talking about and C. gave me the name of the short story and the book it was in!
Does the story end there? Nope! He informed me that the book was out of print (enter sigh here) and that he did not even have enough for the class copies to be taken home. However, since he only used so many for both classes - he was willing to send me a copy! (insert Jenn jumping up and down like she just won on The Price is Right). Today I received the book in the mail and I will be debating reading vs. sleeping tonight.
In conclusion, I thought about my own teaching and figured that somewhere down the line a student might actually contact me, like I just did, and tell me that they loved my class!
