User:Jesse Groppi

	Jesse Groppi
	Nationality American Country United States / England Languages English, some Spanish & Italian	Occupation Student, writer Employer Self-employed/freelance School University of the West of England BA (hons) English and Drama	Email jagroppi@gmail.com Skype jesse.groppi Website JesseWALD.net	en This user is a native speaker of English.

About me At WE What I am about at WikiEducator is essentially learning about education. I hope to my participation adds value to the education world community, flexes some of my own skills as an educator, and develops a network of like-minded colleagues that can help mentor me through the learning process ahead. I also have developed a love for wiki environments. I hope that I can bring good things to WikiEducator with my experience in and knowledge of successful wiki environments. Personally & Professionally I am a professional copywriter and creative writer from Chicago, Illinois. I am in the process of completing my B.A. in English literature and Drama, and expect to complete a teacher's certification in secondary education shortly afterward. To date, I have been published in two college journals. In my free time, I can be found writing for publication and competitions, teaching my dog new tricks, tweeting with my writing friends, drinking tea and playing video games, Googling myself, or talking in an English accent when I think no one can hear. I am a self-proclaimed Anglophile.

Current projects At WE Workgroup:Style guidelines Workgroup:Categories Personal Novel I'm currently writing a novel in which the main character is trying to get past her personal issues against the backdrop of her social life on the internet. The novel will highlight the successes and woes of utlising the internet as a social scene. Poetry I am always writing poetry; it is my strongest genre to date. I'm trying to piece together chapbooks of work I've already written on the subject of love and relationships, and subject studies I have yet to write. I'm toying with writing subject studies on flowers (in a rather 19th century vein) and on aspects of England. Children's stories I have two children's stories projects going on. The first is a story about a boy whose alchemist father is more interested in gold than in his own son. The second project is a cooperative project I'm doing with my friend, a photographer, and my dog, Bogie. We have one story already written and designed, and we're putting our things together to seek out publication for the book, as well as planning for more in a series about Bogie. US emigration projects I'm doing some research into utilising blogs, internet articles, and eBooks on the subject of emigration from the US in order to make an income. The income would likely to advertisement and publication based.

Interests Education and the Arts I am, of course, interested in all types of writing and theatre, and I'm absolutely fascinated with education in general. Aside from this, I used to be a moderately successful musician and singer in school, and this has led to my becoming a magpie collector of music. If you've got something interesting, I wanna hear it! Dogs I have an extreme passion for dogs, and animals in general. I'm very passionate about the issues of animal rescue and discrimination against strong breeds. For these causes, I'm developing my retirement plan to involve running a rescue centre for banned breeds in the UK. I'm also extremely interested in animal behaviour. I have been working with and training dogs since I was a child, and today I am honing my dog skills on my own dog, Bogie. Bogie is fully obedience trained (not to competition level), we are always adding new tricks to his repertoire, and I do practice a few agility obstacles with him (he has an unfortunate structure, especially in his hind end that makes me refrain from really getting into this). Our next project as partners is to work on therapy certifications. I'd like to find a certification that allows me to take him wherever I go. Technology I love computers and programming, especially web design. This has led to lots of work on wikis, mostly WoWWiki, since 2007. One of these days I will actually get my website together using MediaWiki software. I am hugely into the wiki concept. I am especially fond of the organisational structure of it. Free knowledge v. intellectual property I am interested in seeing the free knowledge concept realised, but I question the use of the term "sustainable" used within its preachings. It is difficult for me to see the production of free knowledge, by an individual on a full-time basis, as being "sustainable". For most people, one has a day job that supports and often takes a leading role in the production of free knowledge. But, what about the creative ones, the entertainers? Surely they produce informative works, but somehow I see the result of "free knowledge", as applied to these works, being a choice between taking one's checks from Google Analytics and restricting one's creativity to a part time schedule. I would be interested in an experiment on the worth of intellectual property as presented by voluntary payment for said property. What do the masses think the creatives ones' efforts are actually worth? Could one actually make a living that way? Might such a situation herald a new beginning for barter and trade sustainability?

Accomplishments Project management In 2001, I re-designed localised training documentation for Sony Online Entertainment's EverQuest Guide programme. Through 2007 and 2008, I organised style and content improvements in a chunk of WoWWiki related to a specific subject. In 2002 and 2004 & 5, I organised and ran gaming clubs and events. Team efforts In 2007 and 2008, I was part of group think-tanking various visual and interactive elements of WoWWiki, via far too much time in IRC. Teaching experience In 2001, I trained new customer service team members, or "Guides" in SOE's EQ Guide programme. In 2007 and 2008, I tutored elementary students, mostly in reading, one-on-one and in group environments, and did some classroom assistance. I assisted in an English as a Foreign Language classroom in 2007, providing one-on-one assistance and an expertise in the English language. Education Associate's degree in Arts, 2009, with a concentration in English and Theatre.

To Do Design Style guide facilitator toolbox template for user pages Template:Style guide workgroup facilitator or Template:WG-SG facilitator Finish Workgroup:Categories enter whatis template into guideline proposals templates for proposal voting (User:Jesse_Groppi/dev05) Template:Approval header Template:Approval Template:Conditional header Template:Conditional Template:Disapproval header Template:Disapproval the Whatis template need to be opened up to a wider usage. Also create a Howto template? Using the proposed guidelines list create JS that will put the list into an array, and use that array to: populate the WG-Style guidelines nav page through a list of guidelines develop ideas for use of the DPL forums extension for WE develop glossary for "generally accepted" definitions of useful terms. i.e. "secondary" and "primary". develop guide for how to use the glossary to improve a resource Glossary workgroup? Workgroup for ease of use developing boilerplates, forms that make authoring and guideline adherence as easy as possible. Transcribing educational standards workgroup?

My pages User:Jesse Groppi/sandbox01 - for testing the content of dev pages User:Jesse Groppi/dev01 - tooltip template User:Jesse Groppi/dev02 - task template User:Jesse Groppi/dev03 - Future category map proposal User:Jesse Groppi/dev04 - Main page idea User:Jesse Groppi/dev05 - ideas for voting portion of Help:Guideline proposal User:Jesse Groppi/dev06 - task template User:Jesse Groppi/dev07 - empty Workgroup:style guidelines Template:WG-Styleguide nav Template:Whatis Help:Guideline proposal Template:Guideline proposal nav Template:Style guideline Template:Guideline proposal listing User:Jesse Groppi/Infobox Template:WG-Categories nav Workgroup:Categories

Lessons Photograph Paragragh Which prose is from a poem? What your grandmother's grammar teacher did for poetry Words, like Legos Design a flash app that performs like magnetic poetry, allows for multiple users in same instance, allows for creation of new blocks and grouping of blocks Who do I know that can program in Flash? Is there an opensource Flash design programme? Poetry's tacklebox: punctuation series? words, rhyme (maintain the metaphor) Last line challenge Famous challenge to all students (And the hippos were boiled in their tanks.) Everyone creates their own last line and each student draws one from a hat. resource blackboard extra credit First student to get to class and finish writing a no more than ten line poem gets EC Write poems that emphasises the types of words or punctuation Each line starts with a pronoun each line ends in an exclamation point or question mark ELEMENTARY Why & Because, or If you & Be sure One student creates a pair, then mix them up and read them Poems for teaching: list at poets.org

Courses Introduction to (and thinking critically about?) poetry