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Conni Mulligan

E-Mail: connimulligan@gmail.com Twitter: CurlyTeach

** PROFILE **
 * Motivated, high energy educator with demonstrated track record fostering student and teacher learning
 * Possess strong people skills; sensitive to learners’ specialized and changing needs; proven ability to develop rapport with teachers and students
 * Ability to individualize instruction based on interests and needs; strong interest in technology related activities
 * Strong background in technology instruction and ability to learn and apply new programs quickly and easily
 * Intel Master Trainer, QTL Instructor, a STAR Discovery Educator, iSafe Certified and currently hold the position of Chair for the North Carolina Discovery Education Network (DEN)

** EDUCATION ** Master's Degree in Technology in Education, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-2990 Graduation Date: May 1999

Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education Limestone College, Gaffney, SC 29340 Graduation Date: May 1990

** CERTIFICATIONS ** State of North Carolina, Computer Education Endorsement, Program Code 09 State of North Carolina, Elementary Education, Program Code 03

** PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE **

> Koontz Intermediate School (5-6), Asheville, NC
 * ** Media Specialist, August 2015 - Present **

> North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
 * ** Professional Development Consultant, region 8, Educator Effectiveness, January 2015 - July 2015 **

Buncombe County Schools, Asheville, NC 28806
 * ** Instructional Technology Facilitator, 2005 – January 2015 **
 * Provide high quality research-backed professional development based on continuous improvement of teaching and learning, educational theories and best practices, including training and support for K-12 educators, administrators and other faculty/staff with a focus on collaboration and integration among all departments and curriculum areas. Areas of concentration include but are not limited to: Quality Teaching and Learning(QTL), Intel Teaching Thinking with Technology, Microsoft Office Software Applications, Online Learning through LMS Moodle, Google Apps, Big6 Research Model, NC Wise Training for Certified Staff, Discovery Streaming, Multimedia Applications and Project Based Learning.

Brevard Middle School, Brevard, NC 28712
 * ** Middle Grades Keyboarding Instructor, 2004-2005 **
 * Provide basic keyboarding instruction to 6th grade students, provide advanced keyboarding instruction to 7th and 8th grade students (Including: Microsoft Office Programs [Word, Access, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint], Multimedia Presentations, WebPublishing, and preparation for the 8th grade computer skills test

Transylvania County Schools, Brevard, NC 28712 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Assist students, teachers (K-12), and administrators with technology integration, prepare for computer skills testing, work <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">with various multimedia programs, prepare and instruct technology related workshops and seminars
 * ** Technology Education Facilitator, 2001-2004 **

** SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS **
 * Geocaching Webinars for Discovery Educator Network (DEN) in 2012 & 2013 and face-to-face sessions during **DEN Geocaching Day** 2010, 2011 & 2013
 * Presented at **ISTE** 2013
 * March 2011 – Presenter for **Moodle Mini Moot** at Mars Hill, NC
 * March 2011 – Presenter for **NCAEOP** – Google Docs
 * Featured in an article by Carl Vogel, **District Administration**, May 2009, A Call for Collaboration: []
 * 2005-2013 attendee and presenter for **NCTIES** every year
 * 2009 co-presenter at **FETC**: Integration Through Collaboration
 * 2001 NovaNET Users’ Group Conference, Mesa, Arizona
 * **NCETC 2001** Conference, Presenter, PowerPoint – It’s Not Just for Presentations
 * **NCETC 2000** Conference
 * Taught various technology related workshops for Transylvania County, Jan. 2001 to present. Examples include: NovaNet, Integrade, GroupWise, Inspiration, Web Page Development and Design, Microsoft Office Programs, Multimedia Design including Audio & Video, Data Notebooks and Portfolios, Thinking Maps
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; tabstops: list .5in left 130.5pt;">South Carolina State Technology Convention, **EdTech**, Presenter, 1999
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; tabstops: list .5in left 130.5pt;">Attended South Carolina State Technology Convention, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. (Workshops included: Web Page Design, Networking-LAN and WAN, Internet and Intranet, Cold Fusion)
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; tabstops: list .5in left 130.5pt;">Certificates in:
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in left 130.5pt;">ACCT - Assessments of Content Criteria in Teaching
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in left 130.5pt;">PET - Program for Effective Teaching
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in left 130.5pt;">Tactics for Thinking
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in left 130.5pt;">Cooperative Learning Course (as well as the first level of Cooperative Learning training-Level One: Brown Book)
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; tabstops: list .5in left 130.5pt;">Baldridge National Quality Program
 * <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; tabstops: list .5in left 130.5pt;">Working with the Disabled Child, Inclusion, and other workshops on various disabilities, including characteristics and ways to teach or work with the disabled child.

** OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE ** <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Creekside-Community Education Teacher <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Brevard College, Brevard, NC 28712 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">PowerPoint and Windows XP classes <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Career Technology Instructor <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Brevard Middle School, Brevard, NC 28712, 1999-2001 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Provide instruction in career development, decision-making, exploring biotechnology, exploring business and marketing, <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">business computer technology, exploring life skills, business computer technology, exploring technology systems, and keyboarding to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Instructor, Basic PC Literacy, Winter 1999 Semester <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Lesley College, Cambridge Massachusetts, 02138-2990 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Teaching Assistant for ECOMP 7100: Fundamentals of Computer Structure - This course focused on providing hands-on <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">opportunities for the students to discover the inner workings of computer systems, from hardware to software. <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Brevard Elementary School, Brevard, NC 28712 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Teacher, 5th Grade: Responsible for teaching 28 students all subject areas, 1998-1999 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Limestone College, Gaffney, SC 29340 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Cheerleading Coach, 1990-1991 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Johnsonville Middle School, Florence School Dis. #5, Johnsonville, SC 29555 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Computer Keyboarding Instructor for 5th - 8th Grades, 1997-1998 Keyboarding Applications Teacher: 7th & 8th Grades, 1997- <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">1998 Other Duties: Cheerleader Coach, School Web Page Designer, 1995 – 1997, Teacher: 8th Grade Language Arts, 7th Grade (Gifted and Talented Language Arts, 6th Grade Social Studies, and 5th Grade Social Studies <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"> Battery Park Elementary School, Nesmith, SC 29580 Special Education Teacher, Self Contained EMD Students (1st-8th Grade), 1994-1995; 5th Grade and 6th Grade Language Arts <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Teacher, 1992-1994; 4th Grade Language Arts Teacher, 1991-1992; <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Committees - Just Say No, Strategic Planning- Action Team, Spelling Bee, and Computerized Instruction <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Cherokee County Mental Retardation (CCMR) Board, Gaffney, SC 29340 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Director of Infant Program <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Limestone College Y.O.U. Program, (Youth Opportunities Unlimited), Gaffney, SC 29340 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Head Tutor for Students in Summer Program, May - August 1990 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Tutor for Mathematics, June - August 1989 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Limestone College, Gaffney, SC 29340 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; tab-stops: 130.5pt; tabstops: 130.5pt;">Work in Registrar's Office: Filing, Answering Phones, Typing, August to May 1988-89, 1989-90, and 1990-91

** COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT ** <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Asheville Puppetry Alliance (APA) – 2002-Present <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Serve as Webmaster, Education Coordinator, Puppeteer

<span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;">Hendersonville Area Computer Society (HACS), 2000-2002 <span style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 11pt; layout-grid-mode: line; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;">Volunteer - Web Page Designer and Instructor for Beginner’s class “How Do I..”