Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Hello, MEDA

My name is Jon Foulk. I'm in my last semester of the Masters in Teaching program here at State. Woo hoo... As a grad assistant I teach PE to three small elementary schools in Erwin. It's fun, challenging, and very rewarding.

I'm originally from Atlanta, then Seymour, TN,....now Johnson City. I'm 27 years old. My wife, Brooke, is an OBgyn Resident with ETSU Physicians.

We're also expecting our first kid, which is exciting. Hopefully our other kid, Scrubby (an overweight 4 year old chihuahua) won't be too jealous.

As far as hobbies, I'm a raft guide for USA Raft and have been paddling the rivers in the S. East for about 6 years now. If you see a honda element or subaru outback around town with an orange kayak on top, I'm not trying to get attention - I've probably been in Erwin "working out" at Big Rock Rapid. Whitewater is truly my passion.

Other than that, I'm an avid musician. I play and have played keyboards and piano all my life. I play by tabs and chord charts using my ear and years of practicing scales to navigate through songs. I love gigging and gig often. I'm currently setting up to play regularly at the Carter on Main in Elizabethton. I do a lot of home recording through garageband, logic, and cakewalk.

My Computer-

I use a Macbook Pro with OS X. I am currently using my neighbors router, which runs off of DSL. (our router is broken).

I hope to learn more about how to incorporate technology with education through this course, mainly through web enhancement and other mediums I haven't even considered.

Guess that's it.

- Jon

1 comment:

GrandmaGlor said...

I am a technology teacher in a k-8 alternative education school. Trying to incorporate tech into the curriculum has been a 9-year problem for me. We do have the children use excel, powerpoint, publisher, and word.
There are many resources available.