Hello,
My name is Jeremy Davis, and I am the Instructional Technology Coordinator for the Anaheim City School District Orange County, California. For the past three years I was a teacher on special assignment for instructional technology in the Magnolia School District. I am also a Educational Technology Trainer for the Orange County Department of Education, teaching teachers and administrators various classes including the Technology Module of the Tier 1 Admin Credential program. I have presented for CUE, the Computer Using Educators Conference, at TechEd, at the ILC (Innovative Learning Conference) and for the Discovery Educator Network (United Streaming). I am a STAR educator for Discovery Education, a Google Certified Teacher, a member of CUE and ISTE, and I love teaching technology. I am a big fan of Apple, and my old tech department has been featured on ther website.
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I was a finalist for the Project Tomorrow Innovation in Education Award as High Impact Teacher for Orange County in 2008, and have been named one of "20 to Watch" in Educational Technology for 2008 by the National School Board Association.
Windows videos are currently being developed, utilizing only open source software, and will be available in March of 2009.
I have spent over 10 years in the technology and educational fields, and have taught all grades kindergarten through sixth (except 3rd) as a classroom teacher. Luckily, my wife has taught 3rd grade for 6 years, so we've got you all covered. As a Teacher on Special Assignment, I was in over 400 K-6 classrooms modeling lessons for teachers with mobile laptop carts. I decided that I should take that experience and develop a curriculum that districts can use to ensure graduating 6th - 8th graders have the technology skills that they need to move on to the next level of schooling.
In my time teaching model lessons in the classroom, I have discovered many teachers were not comfortable with the technology. I often heard them confess, "I wish I could have you in my classroom all the time." Well, the idea for the videos was born. As your Virtual Technology Teacher™, I can be in your classroom whenever you would like. I can be paused, rewound, and played over and over for skill enhancement. Teachers can listen to me a few times and then teach the lesson themselves, or teachers can use me as the classroom teacher while they work the room, helping individual students to keep up.
I truly hope you enjoy the lessons. I am always open to suggestions for new lessons, and I will be updating them constantly. You can reach me any of the ways described below. I am happy to answer any questions you might have.
Sincerely,
