Ben Guest’s Blog

Oxford

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:19:51 -0700

Photos of Oxford are up, courtesy of Servati:

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MCT

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:20:13 -0700

From Ruth Kuhnau, Class of 2005, as her students were preparing to take the MTC 2 (a state test):

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Crime

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:08:53 -0700

Dr. Andy Mullins, co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, talks about crime in Jackson, Mississippi. Check out more clips on the Mississippi Teacher Corps YouTube page.

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City and County

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:37:45 -0700

Dr. Andy Mullins, co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, on the distinction between city and county school districts in Mississippi. Check out more clips on the Mississippi Teacher Corps YouTube page.

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Casinos

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:52:11 -0700

Dr. Andy Mullins, co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, on the contradictions of the Mississippi Casino Bill. Check out more clips on the Mississippi Teacher Corps YouTube page.

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Jackson, MS

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:53:37 -0700

A bunch of good clips, from last summer, of Dr. Andy Mullins, co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, talking about Jackson, MS. Check them out on the Mississippi Teacher Corps YouTube page. Here is the entire 50 minute talk, with titles, maps and pics added:

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Governor William Winter

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:38:30 -0700

Former Mississippi Governor William Winter gives the keynote address at the 2005 Mississippi Teacher Corps Reunion. The next MTC Reunion is scheduled for July 10th and 11th, 2009. Interesting side-note, Gov. Winter served as a mentor to former President Bill Clinton, when Clinton was Governor of Arkansas...

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Southern Baptist Conservatism in Mississippi

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:05:45 -0700

Dr. Andy Mullins, co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, talks about the influence of Southern Baptist Conservatism in Mississippi. See more clips from the same talk here.

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Jackson

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:13:49 -0700

A bunch of good clips, from last summer, of Dr. Andy Mullins, co-director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, talking about Jackson, MS. Check them out on the Mississippi Teacher Corps YouTube page:

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Twitter

nobody@vox.com(Mississippi Teacher Corps) — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:36:47 -0700

Robbie, MTC Class of 2005, has a nice post about how the Jackson Clarion-Ledger (Mississippi's largest newspaper) is using Twitter to follow events in Mississippi, including a smoke bomb prank at Jim Hill High School today. The CL's coverage may have begun with Robbie's "tweet." I've been using Twitter as well and have found it interesting. I'm not sure if it is useful for MTC to have every participant keep a Twitter account but it is something I'm considering. We will have the interns (all of eight of them) keep accounts over the summer and go from there...

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