Lori Krane - Bio
Let me introduce myself. I am the Technology Coordinator of the
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, NJ, specializing in staff
development and K-8 technology-curriculum integration.
I
am a New York State - and Connecticut - licensed elementary classrooL<m teacher (I
received my M.S. Ed in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from the Bank
Street College of Education in 1990) and technology specialist (with 14 years of
experience), and I have worked as a staff development consultant in educational
technology for the NY State BOCES Lower Hudson Regional Information
Center.
I currently provide staff development in educational technology as well
as consulting services to the Bronxville, NY
school district, the BEPT Teachers' Center (a consortium of four local
school districts), as well as other local school districts.
My
prior work as Elementary School Technology Specialist and Staff Development
Consultant consisted of collaboration
with K-5 teachers and direct instruction to their students, in order to
integrate technology into the educational program. I was involved in the
creation of a K-5 technology curriculum for the district and served as a member
of the district technology committee. I
also created and maintained the elementary school's web site.
As
a staff development consultant, I have developed and provided training programs
to teachers in the area of educational technology and curriculum integration
with titles such as "Expanding the K-1 Classroom with Educational
Technology", "Developing Technology Infused Activities within Thematic
Units for the 2nd & 3rd Grade Classroom", "Getting Started with
Educational Technology:, "Creating Interactive Multimedia PowerPoint
Presentations in the Classroom", "Creating WebQuests" and
"Web Page and Web Site Development" (for Teachers and Students).
At
NECC 1999, I presented a well-received, six-hour workshop entitled
"Creating Interactive Multimedia PowerPoint Presentations in the Early
Childhood Classroom" for an audience of teachers, technology coordinators
and administrators. At NECC 2001, I
will be presenting a six-hour workshop entitled "Using Technology to Teach
Social Studies".
Other
work in which I have been involved includes staff development on effective
Internet use and design and implementation of WebQuests in the Middle School
Social Studies classroom. I have
also worked on technology plans for local school districts.
I
have developed and co-authored an extensive amount of tutorial materials,
specifically written for classroom teachers, focused on their basic needs (and
taking into consideration their lack of time to deal with technology), as well
as instructional material for elementary and middle school students.
I have created this web site to streamline my staff-development efforts and to be able to share the wealth of resources I have come upon with parents and teachers. Enjoy!
Any questions, please email me at [email protected].
This web site was created and is maintained by Lori Krane
This page was
last updated on
Friday, February 04, 2005