It is here you will find the list of contributors to teacheng.us. They are listed in a rather random order.

If you’d like to become part of this list, please let me know by emailing me at ben@esoterium.us.

Ben Davis

Ben is working on his 3rd year at Vestavia Hills High School in Birmingham, Alabama. He teaches 11th grade Language Arts, which focuses on American literature, which is second place only to Beowulf. He is currently the Tech Liaison for the Red Mountain Writing Project. He started TeachEng.Us with the hopes that it would become a lifehacker.com for teachers. The only way that can happen is through the submissions by teaching professionals that inspire and encourage others through joining in the symphony of our craft. If you have some notes to add to our song, please email him at ben@esoterium.us for further instructions. (Other info: twitter id: davisbg)

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Chris Copeland

Chris graduated from NYU with a masters in English Education. He currently works at Vestavia Hills High School in Birmingham, Alabama. He is currently in his 6th year of teaching 9th and 11th grade language arts and his 4th of sponsoring the school’s literary magazine, The Muse. He also frequently writes for Birmingham Magazine.

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Kevin “dogtrax” Hodgson

Kevin Hodgson teaches sixth grade and is the technology liaison for the Western Massachusetts Writing Project . He is in his sixth year of teaching, after a decade as a newspaper journalist. He got tired of writing about the ineptitude of government and decided that his time would be better spent in the classroom, where he could really make a difference (he hopes). In his free time, Kevin writes stories and poems and music, and he is a singer, saxophonist and guitarist (not in that order) in a rock and roll band, The Sofa Kings, that is always on the far, far edge of stardom. You may never have heard of them. His various technology projects include his classroom blog, The Electronic Pencil, and the global podcasting site, Youth Radio. Kevin also seeks to find new ways to collaborate with other teachers, including the Day in a Sentence feature and the Collaborative ABC Movie Project.

James “Linus” Dykstra

James teaches history, computers and a variety of other things at Linden Christian School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As part of that role he’s involved with the Red River Regional Heritage Fair (www.redriverheritage.ca). When not blogging here, he muses about technology in the class at Befuddled (www.befuddled.info).

Nancy Cavillones

Nancy graduated from NYU with a BS in English Education, and from the Milano Graduate School with an MA in Urban Policy Analysis. She taught high school for 6 and a half years before leaving to pursue opportunities outside the classroom. Prior to becoming a teacher, Nancy worked for AmericaReads, Jumpstart for Young Children and Kaplan Test Prep. She is currently a tech coach for the New York City Writing Project. She can be found at http://ncavillones.tumblr.com, among other places on the Internet.

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Eric Hoefler

Eric Hoefler taught English and creative writing at Woodbridge Senior High School’s Center for the Fine and Performing Arts (CFPA) in Woodbridge, Virginia for the past nine years. While there, he helped to design and implement the CFPA program and the Center’s four-year creative writing program. In 1999, he created a community-based website for teachers of English and creative writing at the school, which originally connected students through forum discussions but grew to include profiles, blogs, and file sharing. During that time, Eric also helped to develop and teach an online creative writing course as part of the county’s Virtual High School initiative. In 2001, Eric became the Technology Liaison for the Northern Virginia Writing Project (NVWP), housed at George Mason University. Through that service, he has helped to integrate online technologies into the Project’s work and has led numerous workshops that help teachers to understand how emerging online technologies can further improve the teaching of writing. Currently, Eric is working with a contracting agency for the Children’s Bureau to help bring online solutions to the Child Welfare Reform Project, and he continues to work with teachers through his role with NVWP.

Angela West

Angela is in her third year of teaching 3rd grade, in Orlando, FL. She enjoys working with the diverse and challenging population that makes up Central Florida. She has recently been granted tenure and will be pursing her Master of Arts degree in Gifted Education, at South Florida University. Angela enjoys teaching writing the most out of all subject areas. She is constantly looking for fun, relevant ways to integrate technology into instruction. Her class website can be found at www.otownteacher.edublogs.org.

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Natan Q. Shar

Natan graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor’s degree in History. He has since earned a Masters in Secondary Education and is currently in his 10th year in public education. He has taught Ancient World History, U.S. History, Mythology, and Reading classes.

He currently teaches Early U.S. History at Vestavia Hills High School in Birmingham, AL.