Sarah Towle '80 Shares her Story with Students
While back in the States on business, Parisian Sarah Towle '80 returned to 2000 Edgehill to speak to interested students, parents, and teachers.
A group gathered in Dr. Lavine's room to hear Sarah Towle '80 share her story. Sarah, an author, educator, app and e-book developer, USN alumna, and self-proclaimed "accidental entrepreneur," decided at the age of twelve that she wanted to travel the world. After graduating from University School of Nashville in 1980, she went on to get a master's degree in English Language Education, then set out to teach her way across the globe.
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In 2009, she realized that the book she’d been writing would work better as interactive apps. This realization led to the creation of Time Traveler Tours, a start-up developer and publisher of mobile StoryApp iTineraries targeting educational tourism.
Sarah’s first successful app, Beware Madame la Guillotine, A Revolutionary Tour of Paris, which reveals the history of the French Revolution through the narrative voice of murderess Charlotte Corday, went on to win a number of educational app awards. In July 2013, "Teachers With Apps" honored Sarah's app once more, certifying it as an educational App of Distinction, one of 25 apps that "go above and beyond excellent," in their words.
Beware Madame la Guillotine was released in February of this year as an interactive e-book.
In addition to her app and e-book creation, Sarah travels as a guest educator and lecturer. She also coordinates the Paris-based Young Authors' Fiction Festival in collaboration with the American Library in Paris and SCBWI-France. The YAFF attracts the participation of over 350 young authors as well as 33 schools and writing programs every year.
You can watch Sarah's entire lecture by viewing the attached video clips.
You can watch Sarah's entire lecture by viewing the attached video clips.
