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About: Amy Brosemer 

Contact Info:

3rd Grade

Dewar Elementary School

abrosemer@lowndes.k12.ga.us

<SCHOOL TEL>229-219-1370

Website: http://www.lowndes.k12.ga.us/brosemer

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/abrosemer

About Me:

Began teaching in 2006. Taught 2nd grade for 2 years and last year taught 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade math EIP. I will be teaching 3rd grade next year. I recently graduated with my masters in Reading Education.

A Positive Experience with Instructional Technology:

I love to make movies with my students out of everything from the stories they write to scavenger hunts to sharing real-life examples of concepts we're learning. My favorite movie we made last year was a combination of all of those. The students wrote stories about a day at school making sure to include all of the fractions they encounter during that day. They then made the stories into movies which incorporated the use of digital cameras, flip cameras, PowerPoint, Movie Maker, and a Green Screen. The students loved it and the movies turned out really good. However, this was my first experience with the green screen, so I was a little disappointed with the quality of those transitions. I'm planning on doing more movies with the Green Screen next school year and this time I am going to have a true cloth back drop instead of just bulletin board paper taped to the wall. I'm hoping this will clear up the quality.

Interests:

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My Teach 21 Project

Our project is the LEAF project.  This acronym stands for Lowndes' Environmentally Active Friends.  My Advanced Journalism students will be mentoring Ms. Brosemer's 3rd grade EIP class.  My students will be teaching them broadcast fundamentals at the beginning of the year while getting to know them.  Ms. Brosemer's class will begin a broadcast at Dewar Elementary.  Then after Christmas break we will begin a global project to begin a recycling effort at Dewar.  The high school and elementary students will collaborate to make videos addressing recycling needs and methods which we will broadcast and podcast (we hope!), so other schools can learn as well.  We were asked by our technological gurus to make a wish list.  Here it is:

Ms. Brosemer                                                         Ms. Cates

tripod(s)                                                                 microphones to aid in broadcast productions

video camera(s) with a hard drive                          headphones with built in microphones (class set)

Adobe Premiere License

                               We both want e-mail/Wiki access between students.