Joined ICATS Team - Summer 2008

 

Education

 

• North Posey High School '94

• B.S. Indiana University '98

• M.S. University of Southern Indiana '06

 

Teaching Experience

 

• Highland Elementary School

  • 5th Grade Self-Contained Class

• Perry Heights Middle School

  • 6th Grade Language Arts/Social Studies

• Thompkins Middle School

  • 6th & 8th Grade Science

• Glenwood Middle School

  • 7th Grade Math

  • Girl's Varsity Basketball Coach

• Helfrich Park Middle School

  • 7th Grade Math & Pre-Algebra

  • Girl's Track & Field Coach

• ICATS

  • Exploring Google Earth in the EVSC

  • RDS Gradebook

  • Email Usage & Management

  • MediaCAST

  • Website Design

  • Promethean

  • CPS Clickers

  • Photo Story 3

  • Podcasting

My Current Projects

 

• ICATS Website - Administrator & Designer
  

  • eLearning Page Content - For the current initiative in the High Schools where all these schools are implementing student/teacher netbooks.

  • Promethean Page Content - For the current initiative in the Elementary & Middle Schools where all these schools are installing Promethean ActivBoards, ActivSound, and document cameras.

  • MediaCAST - Currently posting tutorials and information to the ICATS MediaCAST web page. Will be involved in training on new features of MediaCAST coming soon.

 

• EVSC eLearning Parent's Website - Administrator & Designer

 

• RDS Grade Book - I am the person teachers can contact with questions about RDS after they have asked the tech coordinator in their building. I also created many of the RDS tutorials that are on the website.

 

Past Projects

 

• Featured Teacher Video Segments - I coproduced with Terry and Dee some video segments of teachers that were using innovative teaching styles that incorporated various technologies in their teaching.

Website Design

• Adobe: Using Spry Widgets: Tabbed Panels Overview

• Adobe: Using Spry Widgets: Accordians

• Adobe: Spry Samples

• Create a Tabbed Web 2.0 Navigation with Photoshop

• CSS Menu Builder - Create great menu rollovers with html, css, and a single pic.

• Google AJAX APIs - Google's AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML.

• Google Analytics - Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.

• Google Webmaster Central - Welcome to your one-stop shop for webmaster resources that will help with your crawling and indexing questions, introduce you to offerings that can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.

• How to set a minimum height to a Div

• Sitemap Generator - This free Sitemap Generator allows you generate XML Sitemaps, Yahoo and Google Sitemaps, check your site for errors and much more!

• Weatherforyou for your website - add local weather information to your site.

 

Cool Websites

• CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design