About
My name is Shannan Muskopf and I am a teacher at Granite City High School, in a town outside of St Louis. I have my Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and a Masters degree in Educational Technology.
My experience with both science and technology is quite eclectic. I love all things technology and when the internet first became a big deal in the late 1990’s, I looked at it as a great opportunity to find resources and collaborate with colleagues.  I’ve come a long way since then, and now find myself to be a little bit more reserved with the social networking and “collaboration” part. Having a presence on the web certainly makes you a target for all kinds of nefarious deeds.
This is partly why, though my site has a blog, I have not enabled comments. Comments are great, but they require a large amount of administration to ensure that nothing inappropriate passes by your site. I’d prefer not to worry about this. Certainly dealing with teenagers on a daily basis makes me wary of opening anything up to anonymous commentary.
Most of the notes and worksheets were designed for freshman level biology with additional AP biology resources added to those class pages. More recently I have been working on worksheets for Anatomy and Physiology, which is now the majority of what I teach. Stay tuned for the unveiling of anatomycorner.com.
As for this site, the original pages were designed using Dreamweaver. In the summer of 2009, I decided to move to a content management system – Wordpress – so that I could add a blog and organize the pages and layout. It began to get very tedious to update every single page of biologycorner.com to match the layout style of the entrance page. Wordpress, while mainly appealing to bloggers is great for any webmaster that wants to streamline pages for their site.  It was also during the summer of 2009 that I included advertisements on the site, this was mainly to offset the costs of running and maintaining the website. As biologycorner became more popular, the amount of traffic increased which resulted in higher costs. I am extremely happy that resources I create are useful to teachers across the country and makes this labor of love completely worthwhile.
Also, check out my dog, Suki’s page.
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