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Three teachers from a Title One school inside the Washington Beltway represent a school's work in the use of web2.0 in a K-5 environment. 

These student works include more than 30 examples of wikis, blogs, use of photosharing, podcasting, videos, photostory3s, google sites, and voicethreads made by students from the ages of 6 to 11 years old.

Annandale Terrace Elementary is a Title One school.  Amajority of its students receive Free and Reduced Lunch and English for Speakers of Other Languages services.

Meet these teachers who have been gathering knowledge about Web2.0 the old fashioned way - by working with it in their classrooms for three years.

NECC Theme and Strand:  21st-Century Teaching & Learning: Differentiated Instruction

Audience Type: Chief Technology Officers, Curriculum Specialists, Library Media Specialists, Principals, Staff Developers, Superintendents, School Board Members, Teachers, Teacher Educators, Technology Coordinators, Technology Facilitators, Technology Integration Specialists

Supporting Research: Jen Orr's recent publication "Reader Responsiveness 2.0" chronicles one successful example of this school's move to use the latest technology in an integrated way throughout the curriculum.

Jennifer Orr, Monica Mohr (2009) Reader Responsiveness 2.0. ASCD Educational Leadership
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Reader_Responsiveness_2.0.aspx

Presenter Background:
With a combined total of over 45 years of experience in elementary education, adult professional development and media production, Jen Orr, Mark Smith (ITRT) and classroom teacher Jen Metcalfe bring real-world experience to this workshop.

Jennifer Orr teaches 1st grade (formerly 5th grade) at Annandale Terrace Elementary School in Annandale, Virginia:
Jennifer is a National Board Certified first grade teacher. She has taught for eleven years, ten years in fourth and fifth grades. She has a BA from Mary Washington College and a MA in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Virginia. She co-authored the article, Reader Responsiveness 2.0, for ASCD's Educational Leadership. She has presented at many conferences and led professional development, on a variety of topics including social studies, arts, literacy, and technology. Jennifer has been involved in developing and piloting technology and progress report projects in her district.

Mark Smith is a licensed special educator and the Information Technology Resource Teacher at Annandale Terrace Elementary:
Mark has 25 years of experience in media production and story telling working for network news and newspaper companies. He ran his own new media company for 10 years pioneering streaming media in the 1990s with Associated Press and other streaming media companies. His focus has been on content as well as technology. He is a lecturer at George Mason University Graduate School of Special Education.  As a teacher and university lecturer his focus is on using media to reach non-verbal students. He also manages the Teacher Research group at Annandale Terrace which engages 55% of the teaching staff in independent ongoing research each school year.

Jennifer Metcalfe teaches 4th grade (formerly 2nd grade) at Annandale Terrace Elementary:
Jennifer Metcalfe has a BA in psychology from George Mason University and a M.Ed. in Curriiculum and Instruction from GMU. She was honored with Virginia Milken Educator Teacher of Promise Award in 2008.