Greetings,
I have been a high school English teacher
at Florence-Carlton school for about 20 years. This summer I finished up my
library certification, so, serendipitously with a name like READ, I am starting
my first year as our school’s MS/HS teacher-librarian. After this semester I will have four more courses to complete my MEd.
I grew up mostly in Montana, got my undergrad degrees
(English and German) in Minnesota, worked and played overseas for a couple
years, and finally made it back to Missoula. While working at the railroad, I
went back to school and got my teaching certification, and I’ve been teaching at
FCS ever since. I live in East Missoula with my husband, 14-year old son, dog,
chickens, and goldfish.
Most of what I know about educational technology I have
learned on the fly. In my classroom I’ve had a Promethean Board for several
years; at one point I had a class set of Ipads; our HS has gone one-to-one with
Chromebooks; most recently I have been assigned as a Montana Digital Academy
proctor for students in our school. Using each of these tools has been
important in keeping my curriculum current and engaging (I’m still trying to
figure out how to implement the use of smartphones). Each of them has also presented
their own challenges. One rule I’ve learned over the decades is if the technology
doesn’t work, find the youngest person in the classroom and s/he can probably
fix it.
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