I’m incredibly excited about heading to the NSTA Portland conference next week! The first trimester is just ending at the school where I teach and I’ve spent an untold number of hours grading and writing report card comments. The fact that in just one week I’ll go on a mini-vacation thrills me to no end. Yes, it’s technically a work-related vacation, but as anyone who has ever been to a NSTA conference knows,it’s going to be a ton of fun!
I have a huge passion for the incorporation of technology into the science classroom. While I use lots of different online mediums in my high school biology classes, my major area of focus has been the development of a student-run blog, Extreme Biology. There are so many reasons why blogs are valuable tools to use in a science (or any) classroom. At the NSTA Conference in Portland I’ll be giving a presentation entitled, “Using Blogs to Promote Science Literacy”, on Friday, November 21, from 9:30-10:30 in the Hilton Tower Broadway III/IV room.
In addition to my presentation, I’ll be blogging about my conference experience at this website. I look forward to meeting many of the amazing and dedicated people who work in science education. If you see a woman walking around with a camera in one hand, camcorder in the other, and a laptop under one arm come say hello!!! It just might be me!!! 
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