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Page history last edited by Shonda Garner Brooks 2 years ago

Welcome to Garner's Grove

I’m the mayor of Garner's Grove, Tech Diva, and I’m glad you took the time to stop by my wiki. I will try to make this the most entertaining and educational wiki I can.

 

 

I am also an Instructor and Watermark Coordinator in the College of Education at ULL and am working on my PhD in Educational Leadership at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (GRADUATED MAY 2018!).

 

 

I founded a nonprofit organization, The Family Strong Foundation, to service the needs of the citizens of Acadiana.

 

 

 

 

Some Food for Thought:

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.-G. K. Chesterton

 

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.-James Callaghan

 

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.-Eric Hoffer

 

 

 

New in my News:

PowerPoint: Redefine! Rediscover! Reintroduce!

PowerPoint has been around for over 20 years but there is so much about this widely available program that most teachers don’t know. During this workshop, teachers will learn how to: make student portfolios, enable the developer’s tab, create triggers, animate reading passages, and great highly engaging PowerPoint presentations complete with video and sound (that actually play every time).

 

 

I finished with Intel Master Teacher training in November of 2008.

I submitted several presentation proposals for LaCue 2010 Annual State Conference in Baton Rouge so if you're going look for me. I will be doing 2 poster sessions and 1 hands-on session. The hands-on session is for high school teachers and administrators.

I taught disadvantaged youths for 13 years. I am certified to teach 1st to 8th grade as well as special ed K-12th grades. I  am also a certified technology facilitator as of Jan 2009.

 

 

I teach educators how to successfully implement technology into their curriculum and “bring their classrooms into the 21stcentury” {that is actually my motto}.

 

 

I have over 500 hours of technology training in a wide variety of software programs. I attend professional development religiously. I attend the ISTE Conference yearly as well as the Louisiana Association of Computer Using Educators’ conference. I subscribe to a variety of professional journals.

 

One more thing you need to know about me: I love teaching. Hopefully, these credentials make me knowledgeable enough for you to trust and follow.

 

I'm constantly working on this wiki as well as others pertaining to other professional development courses I teach.

 

I’m passionate about:

 

God,

 

Family

 

and Educational Technology (in that order).

 

Boredom will always remain the greatest enemy of school disciplines. If we remember that children are bored, not only when they don't happen to be interested in the subject or when the teacher doesn't make it interesting, but also when certain working conditions are out of focus with their basic needs, then we can realize what a great contributor to discipline problems boredom really is. Research has shown that boredom is closely related to frustration and that the effect of too much frustration is invariably irritability, withdrawal, rebellious opposition or aggressive rejection of the whole show. -Fritz Redl

 

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