About+the+Authors

=About the Authors=

===__Emily Brown__ is a media specialist in Douglas County. This is her 1st year in the media center. Previously she taught 4th grade for four years. She has a B.S. in Elementary Education and an M.Ed in Media. She is currently pursuing her ED.S in Media. She and her husband are expecting their first child anytime now.===

=== __Cliff Kicklighter__ is a high school Engineering and Technology Teacher in Evans, Georgia. He has worked at Evans High School for five years. Mr. Kicklighter also sponsors the TSA (Technology Student Association) group at Evans High School. He has a B.S. in Technology Education from Georgia Southern University and a M.Ed in Instructional Technology from the University of West Georgia. He is currently working on his Ed.S in Instructional Technology from the University of West Georgia. He is also a proud husband and father of 20 month old triplets, Dixon, Isaac and Brenna. Mr. Kicklighter enjoys helping students and teachers embrace the latest and greatest technologies that are available. ===

=== __Sharon Purucker__ **is a middle school media specialist in Athens, Georgia. She has worked at Coile Middle School for five years. She enjoys working with all subject areas including art, language arts, math, science, social studies, and more. She finds learning about new technology and bringing it into the classroom can be fun.** The traveling trunk project has been a huge and interesting assignment that can be incorporated into different content areas. Ms. Purucker hopes to collaborate with teachers to create more traveling trunks to be housed in the media center. **New innovations make being a media specialist really interesting!** ===

===**__Robin Schirmer__ is a seventh grade math teacher in Fayetteville, Georgia.** Although she enjoys teaching math, she is definitely a "closet computer nerd" and knows that her true calling is to incorporate both! She earned her B.S. in Geography and Communications in hopes of becoming the local meteorologist. Instead she chose to enroll the following semester into graduate school and earned her M.S. Ed. in Secondary Education - Social Studies. She taught one year in public school before being hired to work as an Educational Instruction Specialist for IBM. During the six years there, she traveled the southeast providing computer training for teachers with an emphasis on implementing technology into the classroom. She then worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta as an Assistant Training Director for the Auditing Department. Eventually, she made her way back into the classroom and has been teaching at Rising Starr Middle School for twelve years. She is the proud parent of two boys, David age 23, currently serving in the Navy; and Blake age 20, a sophomore at the University of Alabama. She lives with her husband, David and two dogs in Senoia, Georgia.===