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Grew up around Hudson Valley, NY.  I always had a love for film, sharing stories and technology.

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BFA in Animation and Film, minor in Writing for the Entertainment Media.
Earned the Rhodes Award from the Dusty Film Festival for unique achievement on writing 12 screenplays.
Shortly after graduating, I became a sub to help finance my film productions.

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Delivered artistic direction and inspirational leadership for a highly successful short length film, overseeing multiple comprehensive production processes.

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A collection of videos that I have made for either creativity, my love of vintage commercials or showcasing to people how I can educate them with edutainment.

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Four of my siblings attended school in the Carolina Forest area. They helped me network and get work as a sub around the county.

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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Had consistent substitute work at Carolina Forest Middle School which landed me a long term substitute Health/PE position for the year.

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Decided to make a career out of education and I got accepted into PACE so that I could teach art with my film degree.

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Taught my students traditional art, but soon realized I could make a larger impact by incorporating technology.
School webmaster during first year along with running Yearbook.

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Shortly after receiving TOY, I began to network on Twitter and collaborate with other like minded teachers.

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Started to create instructional technology tutorials for my students and shared them on YouTube.
Eventually it started to house the various creations of my students as well.
Used the channel to showcase my other creative films as well.

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Some of these go waay back to the classroom and cover some things that aren't up to date but I keep them on for nostalgia. For more #edtech tutorials with my...

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I was proud of the work that my students made.
Created a Facebook Fan Page to showcase their work to parents.
Got students to blog, such as reflecting on their work or creating video games.

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Graduated from Coastal and Professional Development

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Graduated from Coastal and Professional Development

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MA in Education in Learning and Teaching, Concentration in Instructional Technology,
Online Teaching Certificate
Began to host PD sessions for the district, such as networking with Edmodo and Twitter.

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Created a middle school Media Arts curriculum.

At the time, the only middle school class to make art on an iPad.

Started to focus on analytics from blogs and social media to see what people were viewing and why.

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Helped guide and publish middle schoolers to have their work appear on Apple Books.

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My students collaborated with each other to tell a connecting story. Where one story ended, the next student's would start.

They then illustrated these stories with the Manga Camera app, and then edited them within Comic Book!

Before you is the work of both of my Media Arts class as they were inspired by Japanese Manga, along with teacher resources

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‎My students collaborated with each other to tell a connecting story. Where one story ended, the next student's would start.  They then illustrated these stories with the Manga Camera app, and then edited them within Comic Book! Before you is the work of both of my Media Arts class a...

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Such an honor to have the students and I featured in "My HCS Community" to talk about the fine arts magnet program at BWMS.

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Technology Fair Work and Presenting at Conferences 

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Technology Fair Work and Presenting at Conferences 

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Recognized as a 3-time winner of the Horry County Schools Tech Fair, effectively showcasing how to teach with Augmented Reality, using an iPad for filmmaking, and creating a mobile app for communication.
Hosted a Technology Fair at BWMS,
Presented technology sessions for the school, district and state/national conferences, such as my ISTE live stream.

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Planning PD, visiting numerous schools and serving the teachers/students of the District.
Maintained a blog and various websites to house agendas, photos and training materials.

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Collaborated with the Digital Integration Specialists to guide a select group of teachers (Edtech Task Force) to plan and deliver PD in August.

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Communicating and Troubleshooting as a CCU Professor '16

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Communicating and Troubleshooting as a CCU Professor '16

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Using the platform Moodle, I learned how to effectively communicate online to graduate students as an adjunct professor in CCU's Instructional Video Production and Development of Instructional Multimedia courses.
Provided a lot of specific feedback on best practices for online content creation and troubleshooting software/hardware problems.

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Based on best practices for instructional video tutorials, the DIS team collaborated on monthly tutorials to get HCS teachers started with the basics.

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In order to curate all of our content into one location, we collaborated on this website to house our materials and easily share resources.
Created algorithms with other social media sites as a @DearDISes news website.

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Tutorials, news updates, tech innovators of the month and a whole lot more. The Dear DIS dashboard is your one stop resource for all #hcspdl needs for Horry County Schools teachers.

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Began to focus on tracking our subscribers and interactions with our content.
Use Bitly and QR codes to share Dear DIS content

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Co-hosted monthly podcast where we interviewed HCS teachers using technology in interesting aways, along with shout outs and edtech updates.
Produced vodcast versions for YouTube as well.

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DISCAST Episode 3: Going Live and "Springing" Forward!

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Listen to this episode from DISCAST: The World of Ed Tech! on Spotify. The next episode of the Discast is designed for our #ETTF (#Edtech Task Force) members - we shared updates and resources on Facebook Workplace from our Spring Forward activities.

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Created this video for the DIS team to showcase our analytics and show what were the most popular content that we were creating and what we should make more of next.

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This spreadsheet was for research whenever a school or teacher was mentioned with our DearDISes posts, such as #hcsbadges

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HCS Influencers are showcased on @DearDISes brand

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HCS Influencers are showcased on @DearDISes brand

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The ETTF was renamed the HCS Influencers and they became influential for the @DearDISes brand.
The #HCSInfluencers received feedback on best practices for online content creation (instructional video and Instagram graphics) and planned to deliver August PD.

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#HCSInfluencers for middle and high school

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A collection of tips and tutorials by our middle school and high school Influencers. They focus on a lot of web based tools and Google products.

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The HCS Influencers created so much great content, we were able to create a weekly YouTube premiere
After analyzing our social media analytics, I created a schedule with this Google Calendar.

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Renamed all of our accounts as @DearDISes to maintain brand consistency.
The analytics from the YouTube and Instagram posts helped to decide February PD sessions.
Purchased premium version of Buffer to schedule content for LinkedIn and Pinterest.

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#ElemenTuesdays with HCS Elementary Influencers

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#ElemenTuesdays with HCS Elementary Influencers

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More content is created for the @DearDISes brand, now expanding to a Pinterest board of Elementary teacher focused content.
These Influencers will provide us with enough branded content to publish weekly over the summer.

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A collection of tips and tutorials by our elementary Influencers. They focus on a lot of Social Emotional learning, web based tools like Quizizz/Nearpod, eng...

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The HCS Influencers did amazing slidedeck presentations from February PD - so they will appear on Instagram on Friday mornings.

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By writing effective posts with social media handles and hashtags, I have been able to reach a larger audience across our various platforms and by scheduling the content up until August.

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Delivered a differentiated PD session for teachers hoping to use YouTube.
Recently finished a 4 part "Wednesday Workshop" for all MS/HS teachers to attend live or on demand.
By promoting on social media and utilizing stats from Bitly, https://bit.ly/YouTubeScreen it became one of the most popular sessions and a high need for teachers.

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Once all the scheduling of new content is complete, the next batch of content will need to be reviewed but my goal would be to make the schedule better based on analytics and tell even more stories about the great work our Influencers create.