English teacher, reader, writer, all-around lover of language and its eloquent use. I hold an MA in English teaching and am currently employed at Tiny Community College as an adjunct professor of English. I believe in cooperation and collaboration, which is why I started blogging in the first place. Comments are always welcomed!
Hey you! I’ve lost your email addy. Please email me as I would be delighted to help you with the HTML (such as I might).
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I saw your comment on tenseteacher and had to come check your blog out. I am an instructor for introductory writing for mass communication. A major part of my class is teaching grammar and punctuation along with journalism writing. I loved getting to read about you and your students. I think you are handling the megadeath dave situation better than I would. I am still new at this, so who am I to even comment on your situation, but I think you are dealing with it in the right way. I always forget to include the higher-ups when dealings get sticky with students, so that is a positive thing. I look forward to keeping up with you and your students. Thanks for your willingness to share with your blog!
I’m thrilled to have found your blog. I teach instructional technology to K-20 educators (by chance) and college writing (by choice)
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog–I subscribed and will add you to my blogroll as a resource.
I look forward to reading more.
Maria
Hi there — I’ve just started a teaching blog for myself, and came across yours. Can I add you to my blogroll?
Thanks,
Ms. Education
Ms. Education, I’m happy you’re here and I’d LOVE for you to add me to your blogroll. If you come back and read this, leave me YOUR blog address – I tried to email you at the address you left with this comment above to ask for your URL, but my message came back to me as undeliverable. When I know where to find you, I’ll add you to my blogroll, too.
Your avatar says “deaf child at play.” Are you in Deaf Ed.?
~Chili
May I add you to my Blogroll?????
I enjoy reading your stories –
I have a Grammar Wednesday idea… what’s your email address?
sethaslater@netscape.net
Like it!
Dear Mrs. Chili/fellow blogger,
I would love your opinion on online privacy and applications that support this concept. May I send you an email?
At what e-mail address should I contact you about Gone Baby Gone?
Here is mine: drpezz@hotmail.com
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hello
i saw your comment about the banned book bracelet
i made it and its on my site
http://carolynforsman.com or on amazon.com
in time for banned books week in september
i also have a new Obama pin, made from the front page of the June 4 Chicago Tribune “obama makes history”.
ain’t the internet grand
I don’t normally tout my own site, but I think my latest post is right up your alley since you are the Grammar Goddess and all.
http://drpezz.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/grammar-vandals/
Hi,
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Sincerely,
H.
Hey mrschili,
I just turned in my MS revision, and my agent will see what he can do. If no one picks it up in six months or so, we’ll self publish.
I just posted on my “tour” plans. If you know of book stores in your area that might host such an event, I hope you’ll leave me a comment.
Hope you and all the chilis had a wonderful holiday. We are all great here.
All the best,
Dr. B
I just found your blog.It is very interesting and informative blog.There are many things to learn from here..
thanks for sharing..
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I’m also an English teacher in my country, Indonesia. Nice for you to know that English is the first foreign language in my country and is taught from elementary scholl to college. But, to the best of my knowledge, only few learners succeded learning it. Sometimes it hurts when it’s said that it’s all due to the English teachers’ incompetence.
At least I have done my best.
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Thanks so much,
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Mrs. Chili,
This email is long overdue. I found your blog right before Thanksgiving, but had to post final grades decompress from a stressful semester. Your experiences mirror mine. I teach communication courses, freshman English & Speech as an adjunct. So piecing together work as you know can be a full-time job. I am strongly considering using blogging as a way to engage my English students and see better results and participation in reading. The premise is that to be able to post, you first have to read. I thought since they love facebook and other social networking sites, that this may not seem like “homework” to them in the traditional sense. Any help you can offer to point me on the right path to getting started on setting up a class blog will be appreciated. I’m not sure which platform will be easiest to navigate.
Thank you so much for sharing. Back to tweaking my syllabi.
Roadwarrior
If you were to correct the following -
Alcohol and drug abuse can be aggravating factors also. and patients must be asked about it.
what would your correction be?
Dear Mrs Chili–
I came across a post of yours that I liked very much. I am also working on a magazine on education for my community here in Escondido, San Diego. I am wondering if I can reproduce your post in the magazine. The magazine is intended to inspire students to talk about their education; to serve as a forum for parents and educators as well as students in terms of education.
I post this because there is no contact information. Please vivit my blog at citronetsel.blogspot.com to learn more about me or at youthforwardmag.com to learn about the magazine.
Please contact me to speak further–hnajera[at]yahoo[dot]com.
Thanks
Hello Mrs. Chili–
I received your response and apologize for mixing up my e-mail address. What I meant to write was: hnajera[at]youthforwardmag[dot]com. I appreciate your interest; if you can, please get in touch with me…
Hector
Dear Mrs. Chili:
I enjoy reading your blog, and was wondering if you would like to do a link exchange. My book blog’s url is educationanddeconstruction.com. Every week, I make a nonfiction book recommendation in the topic areas of education, history, technology, biography and/or humor. I have already put up your link. Please reply if you would like to do a link exchange. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Sally Friedman
I know I should probably know this already, but I don’t. How do I get my picture to appear on th icon on next to my name on a post? I can’t figure it out. Can someone help?
Thanks
I think that you have to have a wordpress account in order to get your picture to come up on your comments; otherwise, you get the randomly generated icon thingy that you get. Give that a try and let me know what happens.
Cheers!
Chili
Hi Mrs. Chili,
I wanted follow up with you regarding Bing’s new contest (www.bing.com/education) to help teachers, parents, students and the community make a difference at their local schools.
15 finalists will compete to receive either one $100k grand prize or 3 first place prizes of $50K each. While the economy has taken a toll on funding our schools, Bing has launched this program to bring much needed resources back into the school system.
Happy to chat further and send you details – shoot me an email! Thanks.
Hi there Mrs. Chili,
I am in a teacher certification program and will graduate this spring certified k-8th grade. We have been learning the importance of collaboration as well and are required to keep a blog and website through our experience. I enjoyed reading your blog and will be adding it to my blog roll. Cheers! Ms. Bell
I found your blog through another teacher’s blog (I don’t even remember who at this point) and I fully appreciate your sense of humor!
Howdy,
I’ve been trying to put together a syllabus for a new “Film as Literature” course for my students and your postings have been very helpful. Would you consider sharing your formal syllabus with me? I’m interested in the types of assignments you have fund the most successful with your students and would appreciate any help you would be willing to share.
Cheers,
Ciara
mrs. chili is quailty teacher =)
Please contact me about blog collaborations.
Thank you in advance.
Natasha
As a fellow teacher I fell in love with your blog! I’ve just started a blog of my own detailing my first year of teaching as I attempt to survive it (http://secretsfromthefrontlines.blogspot.com/). Would it be all right if I added a link on my site to yours?
Thanks
“I believe in cooperation and collaboration”: Absolutely I agree with you
. Blogging makes the world smaller and smaller.
Yes, it does; but, conversely, it also opens the world up! I would never have met some truly wonderful people were it not for my blog!
Yeah! For me, having found an online English teacher as you is very interesting. I am following your blog as a small student learning more about English
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Do you accept any guest posts on your website. If you could let me know via email that would be great, thanks!
Ms. Chilli,
Thank you for a wonderful Article, my professor talked about this subject recently last week, about the teacher/student/parent relationship and home work.
I am using English everyday for my work. In fact, my English skills have improved not so much because I just read and comprehend documents to be essential to my thesis. I think, therefore, the best way we want to change these limitations of learning English is to communicate as much as possible. I hope I can get a working position at certain country uses English as an official languages.
I think it’s is great to have this site; thank you!
J. Michael Brower
I am so very excited to have found your blog! I was browsing the Web for some examples of frightfully bad grammar (set off by a terrible email my father received), and I managed to find my way to your website. I am always happy to find people who have an appreciation of grammar, punctuation, and all of the other components of our language.
I often feel as if I’m the only person alive who cares about such things, and I am nearly certain that I am the only student at my school who does. I feel some of your pain! I am lucky to have an English teacher who cares deeply for language and a mother who does as well. (She’s raised me quite well; she’s had me following in her footsteps for years!) I hope you have many students who appreciate you, too; you certainly seem to have their best interests, and the English language’s, at heart. Well, perhaps more so English’s than the students’, but that is not such a bad thing!
I must apologize for any grammatical or punctuational errors. I know my grammar is not perfect, but I love to learn more about our language whenever I can. I hope I may learn a thing or two from your blog! I know I’ve enjoyed browsing it so far.