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=Welcome to our Wiki for the Laptop Leaders Academy 2010=


 * < [[image:beknodel.jpg width="155" height="221" caption="Betsy Knodel"]] ||< __**Betsy Knodel**__ teaches 6 - 8 reading, 6 and 10 grade English, Journalism/Play Productions, and Contemporary Novels at Menno Public High School in Menno, South Dakota. She is also responsible for the yearbook, NHS, junior high oral interpretation, and the one act play. Part of her duties this past year included tech integration work for the school district. Betsy was the winner of the TIE K-12 Educator in 2008. She is always willing to try a new tool with her students as well as share them with her colleagues. Her students can often be found creating visual projects that show and tell what they have learned through the study of the English language, authors, books, and dramas. She has been a mentor for the South Dakota Teacher to Teacher Support Network for two years and will continue in that capacity this fall.

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 * < [[image:ks.jpg width="165" height="218" caption="Kay Smidt"]] ||< __**Kay Smidt**__ teaches middle school and high school English at Menno Public School. She has been gradually incorporating the use of laptops in the English classroom through collaboration with her peers who have been very supportive. Last summer, she traveled to Boston to participate in a national conference for humanities teachers. She used knowledge gained from the conference and the abundance of materials on the Internet to develop lesson plans for her American literature class .She also has her students use laptops to enhance their study of vocabulary, grammar and composition and will share with other teachers some websites, programs that incorporate technology, and student projects.
 * < [[image:msieverding.jpg width="169" height="214" align="left" caption="Martin Sieverding"]] ||< **__Martin Sieverding__** is the Technology Coordinator at Menno Public School. He also teaches an upper level computer course each semester. As part of his duties he provides training to teachers in using and integrating technology into the classroom. He also teaches sessions on Internet safety and cyber-bullying to students and parents.

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