Jared's Introduction

My name is Jared St. Martin Brown.  I was born in West Virginia and have lived here all my life except for eight years in which I lived in different places throughout Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona working for the USAF.  Although I loved much about my life in Phoenix, AZ, I knew that, for me, West Virginia was the right place to raise children.  I wanted my kids to be barefoot in the country, climbing trees, and “catchin’ crawdads in the crick.”  So, after those adventurous years in the Southwest, I moved back to Appalachia in hopes of becoming a school teacher and starting a family. I met Albani my first day back in WV and we were married ten months later.  Her last name was St. Martin and my last name was Brown.  So that is how I acquired the extra long last name.  This is our eleventh year together and we now have three children.

This is my seventh year of teaching English and Theatre at the high school in my neighborhood.  Without a doubt, it is the best job I have ever had.  Even after all of these years, it still feels new.  Perhaps that is because so many things change from year to year. 

This is the last class I have to take before earning my M.Ed. in Digital Media, New Literacies, and Learning.  I switch to this focus about a year ago when I realized that all of my favorite classes had to do with digital media.  It was in those classes that I was learning the most; the content seemed new to me, and right for learning about the kind of teaching that I wanted to do.

I am glad to be in this class with so many familiar names and faces.