About+Me

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Devon Caldwell is a Kindergarten and Resource teacher at Oak Lake Community School in Fort La Bosse School Division. With eleven years' teaching experience and a Master of Education degree, Devon is passionate about infusing technology into curricula to engage and motivate all learners. In her Kindergarten classroom, Devon has introduced a variety of hardware, software, and web-based applications to her young students, making extensive use of the interactive whiteboard, interactive response system, Twitter, Ning, and classroom blog. Devon piloted the Literacy with ICT continuum in her Grades 1 and 2 classroom in 2005-2006 and trains new teachers in technology infusion in her role as a member of her division's Literacy with ICT Leadership Team. Devon is trained as a Microsoft peer coaching facilitator, and mentors teachers in her division on an ongoing basis as they infuse technology into their teaching.

In 2008, Devon and her colleague, Leah Obach, were awarded a Canadian Microsoft Innovative Teachers' Award for a collaborative project that used media players to support students with special needs in inclusive classrooms. Devon and Leah attended the Worldwide Innovative Teachers' Forum in Hong Kong where the project was awarded semi-finalist standing in the content area. In 2009. this innovative teaching project was nominated by Devon's school division for the Premier Innovation Award, and her classroom was selected for the MAST "School Boards Work" advertising campaign. Devon enjoys working with pre-service teachers as well as classroom teachers, and she has trained Manitoba and BC teachers in peer mentoring in technology. Her presentation credits include sessions at Brandon University on interactive whiteboards and early years technology infusion, MECY/Concordia University ePearl Spring Institute, MAST convention on assistive and enabling technologies, National Congress on Rural Education in Saskatoon on Web 2.0 principles and technologies in schools, ManACE Technology Information Nights, BYTE Regional Technology Conference, and a variety of local PD sessions and classroom visitations.

Devon can be reached at dcaldwell@flbsd.mb.ca. Follow her on Twitter, her [|Kindergarten class on Twitter] or check out their [|classroom blog.]