Welcome to the
Moveable Feast. If you are a first time Feast Attendee, you are will be
amazed at the
wealth of information that you will acquire this week! If
you have attended the Feast in the past you will
find more trainers and new
areas of technology to see and learn about.
2009
marks my fourth year as a
Feast Trainer of the Moveable Feast. I love to play around and
learn new forms of technology and I continually try to find ways to incorporate technology
into my
classroom. As a
member of
ICE, I have
attended the technology conference
(IL-TEC)
for the last
several years and gained many ideas of ways to enrich my curriculum and
my teaching using
technology. I have attended ant presented a classroom project at
Tech 2007 in Springfield, IL
as
well as a
poster session at the ICE conference
with two other teachers from my school. My teaching
techniques have been enriched by
the use of computers, digital cameras and the installation of a
smartboard in
my classroom. I
have used a variety of technology tools in my teaching: Microsoft
Suite
(Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel, and FrontPage),
Microsoft Photostory 3, Microsoft
MovieMaker,
Unitedstreaming,
Scholastic Reading Inventory,
and
F.T.C. Publishing Software.
For those participants
of the Moveable Feast, I encourage you to look at everything available to you,
knowing that your goal
is to come away from the Feast with something that you can use in your classroom
setting. Don't be afraid to ask questions, I will be doing the same as we
are always learning. Most importantly, have fun!
A little background about me. . . I completed my undergraduate
studies at
Bradley University
with a double major in Early
Childhood
Education and Elementary Education and earned my Master's Degree in
Special Education at
Illinois State University.
I live here in
Bloomington with
my husband and my 5 children.
Next year I will be teaching fourth grade at
Stevenson School
in
District 87.
When I'm not teaching, I keep very busy
attending a
variety of my own children's school and sporting events, cleaning my house,
scrapbooking, doing laundry, buying and selling on ebay (mostly buying), playing with my kids at
home, reading and playing around on the computer.
