Jennifer Wagner has sponsored online projects for teachers all over the world since 1998. Her website states, "What began as a simple Online Project involving Oreos has evolved into 5 projects a year to help YOU bring a fun way of teaching into your classroom." Her online projects use simple ideas, but bring students together to collaborate results.  In the spring of 2005, she saw the opportunity for a current events project when a mallard duck had built a nest in front of the Treasury Department. Over 190 K - 2nd grade classes in 33 states followed the duck as she sat on her eggs and then hatched her 11 ducklings on April 30th. Currently serving as a technology teacher at a private school in California she also finds time to publish a monthly newsletter with concrete ideas for elementary/middle school teachers.

I had known the Technospud Webmaster online for years and admired her enthusiasm and energy for collaborative learning. It was my pleasure to just happen to meet her this summer at a laptop conference. She was just as genuine in person as she was online.

Jennifer Wagner is a "in the trenches" technology teacher that is an effective educator for collaborative online technology projects. She might be in California - a long distance from Memphis, Tennessee, but she has brought creative ideas and enthusiasm for sharing online to my students and fellow teachers through her Technospud Projects. She is an outstanding candidate for your annual list of Top Online Educators.

Gail Braddock

 

Jennifer's online projects have been wonderful for my students! Not only are the projects fun, they also provide them with wonderful learning opportunities.

Kelly Brown

 

I would like to nominate Jennifer for this award because through her online project activities my students and I have broken out of the "book mold" and entered into the fun of math and other related activities.  We are thinking out of the pages of a book and using real life stuff.  I have participated in three, and will soon be working on my fourth, project with TechnoSpud.  Always interrelated within multilevel curriculums, Ms. Wagner provides the teacher with detailed intructions and information, posts project results, provides worksheet for those teachers who wish to use them, related links, curriculum lessons including languaguage arts, math, science and technology, and opportunities for teacher's to share results through their own web pages.  I believe Ms. Wagner is a wonderful candidiate for your award, and should be thoughtfully considered.

Debbie Alexander

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