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Here I am with my husband Xander at a picnic honoring recipients of the Star of Life Award.  My part time/ Volunteer job for the last 25 years has been as a local EMT, and it's something I love to do. As an educator I have actually inspired a number of young people to look into medical careers and EMS specifically because of what I do.

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I work for Manheim Township High School as a Biology and Anatomy Teacher. I am about to start my 18th year teaching and my 16th year here at MTHS! However, I've been a "blue streak" for much longer, as I also graduated from MTHS.
I also am the rifle coach, which is something I enjoyed participating in during high school and college.

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My experiences with integrating technology reflects my comic... I have produced a number of tributes to my failures. While sometimes the idea I have ends up working the way I want, often times it does not. I usually end up with a less interesting and not as fun version of what I thought the students would do. Luckily we have a tech integrator position at our school, where we have a teacher in the building whose sole responsibility is to support teachers with integrating meaningful technology into their curriculum, so I have some support in the classroom if I try something new. I tried to jump into some of the tech early on and because very good with our LMS (Schoology) and how to navigate some websites. Then we went to ipads and I was lost. I had not used an apple product since high school as science is a PC world. I find myself struggling to stay on top of what is going on and how to make the technology do what I know it is supposed to be doing. Many times when I call our integrator or Tech Media folks for help they try to tell me what I am experiencing can't happen, I've confused them more then once on why my tech is doing whatever weird thing its doing!

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I hope to learn about ways to integrate and support technology usage that is able to enhance curriculum in my school and not just be flashy. I really want to better understand what tools are out there, and how they can help support the awesome stuff our teachers do in their classrooms. I am already excited to see the Teacher's Guide to Tech by Jennifer Gonzalez! When I read her introduction about it being a searchable document that organized and highlighted usable tech I realized that this is a tool I've been needing! My team and I will come up with an idea and be like, huh, now, how do we DO That? And we stare at each other and say 'maybe Brandi knows?' ... but now I have a reference to use. I hope to also be better able to determine which tools are worth the most bang for the buck, as that is important that the tech we integrate is valuable to educators and supportive to student learning, without being outside of our ability to purchase it.