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What's been happening with Mr. Odle....

June, 2013: Another successful school year is over. There is lots to do here:

• Now that HTML5 standards are closer to being ready, I am completely recoding this site in HTML5 and CSS3.
• I am also using more PHP, to make it more dynamic.
• I need to restyle my book blog and update it, because I have not been happy with its appearance for sometime. (I have a tendancy to design very cluttered websites.) I also have not had time to write any book reviews over the past year. (I'll write a post about that later.)
• I have a lot of tutorials to write for my teaching blog, plus a few other more philosophical pieces to write.
• I have a lot more content to add to this main site as well; I just need to get it organized and published as PDF's. (I'm also working on some ePub's, as well.)

It's going to be a busy summer....

April, 2012: Starting in April (just after spring break), I became the Spanish lab instructor at Schoolcraft Middle School, hence the header images you see above. I am enjoying working with the students and staff at SMS, whom I have come to know while substitute teaching there. I also get to lend a hand in developing the summer Spanish program. (I rather enjoy writing curriculum, so this is a bit of a bonus.)

June, 2011: I finished the last semester of my second bachelor's degree in English education at Western Michigan University, and have been, officially, looking for a teaching job (you can see my cv here). In the meantime, I have been working as a substitute teacher at Schoolcraft Community Schools and Portage Public Schools where I am a preferred teacher, in addition to the Vicksburg Community Schools.

Standards Compliant and Green: I have rewritten the code for this site (HTML, PHP, & CSS) to ensure it is compliant with the latest web standards. Not only is my hosting company Dreamhost a carbon neutral company, but I have designed this site to be print-friendly, so that anything you print uses a minimum amount of paper.

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In order to keep things tidy here, I am only displaying this month's and last month's updates here. You can see previous updates here.

The complete list of months is here.

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The Footer

The bottom portion of each page is called the "footer." I've reserved this space for three important pieces of information: a list of works cited, citation information for this web page, and copyright information. I'll explain the purpose of each one and follow it up with some examples.

The "Works Cited" Section

As a teacher, I need to model how professionals in my fields (education and English) work. So when I've talked about what other people have written, you'll see a box at the bottom of the page that looks like this:

The MLA Citation Section

Because I am a professional and give credit to those whose research and writing I refer to, I also ask that others give me proper credit when using material I have created on the web. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't, simply because they don't know how to. Therefore, in the footer of each page, I include a section on how to properly city any page you find on my main website. (This does not include information you might find on my book blog. I am currently working on that.)

There are two dates in the MLA citation for a web page. The first refers to the date a page was last updated (which many pages do not include); the second refers to the date of access. These are separated by the medium; in this case "web."

Note that the MLA does not require writers to include the URL to the page you are citing, assuming that anyone can use a search engine to find the page in question. You only need to include it should an instructor or editor require that you include it. I provide it for you in the approved MLA format: in angle brackets after the date of access. If you must break a URL, do so only after a slash.

The Copyright Section

I include copyright information at the bottom of every page. For further information about my copyright and permissions, please visit my copyright and disclosures page.