Jeanne+Paseman



Jeanne Paseman was raised primarily in Pullman, Washington, has lived in Idaho for about twenty-two years, and loves the Northwest and anything outdoors. Jeanne earned her B.A. in Asian Studies and her M.A. in economics at Washington State University. She then achieved a teaching certificate in secondary education from Idaho State University. She also served in Peace Corps.

Jeanne worked in marketing for eighteen years. By the time she was thirty, she landed and worked in her dream job traveling worldwide as the international marketing director for the Dried Pea and Lentil Commission. She then ran United Way in eastern Idaho for eleven years. There in eastern Idaho in the 1990s while volunteering at an annual technology technology training conference for a school district, she met a group of teachers who led the technology training. They were early-technology adopters and became her inspiration to return to school to obtain her teaching certification.

Jeanne has been teaching for five years, and her best days of teaching when the kids are engaged, when they come to her with ideas. Those days are simply the best. What keeps her teaching?  She is a dedicated person. She knows that it makes some kind of difference. She keeps teaching because she is invested, and she likes being in the classroom. Those are the satisfying moments. As she looks back, her most embarrassing moments were early in her teaching career when she didn't really understand what teaching was about. What do she most value in her classroom now that she has been in the classroom a number of years? She values students' individualism, creativity, and open thinking: "Those who think outside of the box."

=** Using films and discussion forums in Moodle **= I used a short film produced in Movie Maker and a discussion forum to kickoff my Personal Finance class. The students responded positively and where totally engaged. You can look at this Go View screen recording to see how it worked in my Moodle site. You also can go to my Moodle page and navigate to the film and discussion forum. A link to my page is below. One great thing about having the film and forum in Moodle is that students can share this with their parents or review it again at home. My personal finance class is at Meridian Academy not Mountain View. I'm using my MVHS account because I'm testing the recently released Moodle 2.0.

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Link to Moodle

= **Using Technology for Service Learning** = My computer applications class did a service learning project in March. We have a lot of computer equipment, cameras, and technology knowledge so the students wanted to share these resources. My computer applications class went to Frontier Elementary School and taught a 5th grade class and the teacher how to make a Prezi. My students had to first learn Prezi and plan the service learning event. The students divided the 5th grade class into 4 groups, used laptops, took pictures of the 5th grades and then demonstrated Prezi using the 5th graders' pictures. The project and Prezi were big hits. Since we don't have media releases for the 5th graders, I can't post the Prezis.

One caution: The free Prezi accounts are public so anyone can view your Prezi. The education accounts or paid accounts on Prezi can be set to private.

The following **Google Search Story** is about the World Wide Web Consortium. The objective is to introduce the W3C to beginning web design students. Google Search Stories is a particularly appropriate application because web designers use online communities and other Internet resources for current information.

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This is an example of how to embed. I'll embed something of mine later.

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Check out Samantha's response to your page!

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Vocaroo Link

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Here is an example of a PowerPoint:

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I often hear stories on NPR that would be relavent to play in class so this would be a good way to have a direct link rather than logging into NPR and listening. Before the Academy Awards, NPR ran a series about jobs in the film industry. Here is a link to NPR about the people "Prop Masters" who supply the props for movies. \NPR Prop Master

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