Experienced+Voices

Another way we are jump starting your networking is by bringing in some administrators that are using the techniques we have been discussing in their own leadership. Each will be creating a Group for your to join. You do not have to join all the groups-- just the topics which interest you.
 * Experienced Voices**


 * //Meet our Experienced Voices//**

 **Alice Barr**   I have lived, taught, and traveled on five continents and now live inMaine. I am the Instructional Technology Integrator at Yarmouth HighSchool in Yarmouth, a 1:1 laptop environment. A 2011 semi-finalist forMaine Teacher of the Year, I am also a Google Certified Teacher, onethird of the SEEDLings team, teach classes on incorporating technologyinto education for The Professional Development Center at The University of Southern Maine and provide workshops and professional development sessions to teachers during the year. http://www.google.com/ profiles/alicebarr. Alice's group will be Digital Citizenship in our Schools

 **Chris Harbeck**  Chris Harbeck teaches grade 8 math to approximately 140 students eachyear in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has been teaching middle school studentsfor over a decade and is in his sixth year of using 2.0 applicationsand "21st Century Learning" in his classroom. Despite the fact (or morerealistically because of the fact) that math is one of those subjectsstudents often reflect back on with distaste, fear or indifference,Chris has moved from teaching both social studies and math to the onesubject. He has been involved in development of the middle years mathcurriculum at the divisional and provincial level. With his strongfocus on conceptual understanding, Chris has discovered that using 2.0tools and applications make math fun and interesting. An encouragingtrend has emerged: students do not run away and saying "I hate math";they love to do assignments and have started to see the beauty in math.Chris has presented at the K12Online Conference. Chris blogs at Making It Interesting http://makeitinteresting.blogspot.com/ and can be found at @charbeck on Twitter. Chris's group will be A Buffet of Choices, it will be linked here soon.

**Carey Pohanka**  Carey is a middle school French and Geography teacher at FredericksburgAcademy in Fredericksburg, VA. She also teaches ESOL to adults andofficiates field hockey and lacrosse. She is currently working on hermasters in Educational Technology at the University of Florida. Careyis passionate about teaching her middle schoolers to use technologysafely and effectively and to collaborate in learning. She uses toolslike blogs, VoiceThread and Google Apps for Education with her studentsto connect her students to the world. Carey has two teenage boys,Timmy and Jeffrey. Carey's group is Teacher Leadership click the link to join.