Heidi Paullus

Heidi Paullus

About Me

ME

teacher

Twelve Years

3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th

surviving at a middle school

instructional tech coordinator for PSD

grants, cadre, committees, professional development

promethean board, expressions, itouches, slate, GPSs, video, podcasting

TECHNOLOGY & LIFE

skype, facebook, google, plurk, wikis, blogging, 2.0 tools, digital scrapbooking

communication, creative, expression, sharing, journaling, recording

wife of an amazing man that makes me proud everyday

mother of four amazing children

on my little farm

loving life

ME

Education

Ione High School

Class of 1994

Valedictorian

BMCC

Class of 1996

Associates

Eastern Oregon University

Class of 1999

Bachelors

Lesley University

Class of 2011

Masters

Professional

RETC

pentamation

Personal Tech Use

Google Reader

skype

Pinterest

Picasa

Web 2.0

classpress

As a teacher I feel I have a moral obligation to help the children in my classroom

grow toward becoming full human beings and to feel successful.

Teaching cognitive skills is not enough...

-- Jean Medick

As a teacher, I strive to use the tools provided to me to help my students to become useful, productive, and creative citizens in our society. With technology moving fast and education struggling to stay caught up with policies and most importantly funding, I find myself in a balancing act. I don't want my classroom to be the same as they have been, straight rows of desks, all paper/pencil and memorization of facts. I want them to learn to be productive, and take an interest in their own learning. Technology provides student with opportunities to create, develop, design, and communicate unlike any other time in educational history.

Because of this belief, I have used every opportunity provided to me to improve myself as a teacher. Exploring new sites, reading blogs from educational technology websites, writing grants, going to technology conferences and ed tech cadres....I make myself a student of the technology so that I can better guide my students into the digital world.

I have found that I am often not the expert in the room - students take what I give them and run with it, I am just the facilitator. By the end they are showing me things that I hadn't even looked at yet! Our students are digital learners, they have grown up surrounded everything electronics, they do not know life without ipods, cell phones, laptops, and internet access everywhere. They are a new generation of learners that our education is behind in understanding and it's our jobs as educators to catch up as much as we can and be there to help guide them.

My philosophy

plurk

OETC

out of the 12 students in the class!

planbookedu

promethean

ITSC

Google Everything

Social Networking

Piknik

http://www.classpress.com/main.php

Mom of 4

Teacher

12 years and

counting....

Google Docs

http://room208solarsystem.wikispaces.com/Earth

glogster

Wife

http://stephenmachado.edu.glogster.com/galaxies/

http://www.edmodo.com/