Barb Baumann

Barb Baumann teaches in the Fieldcrest School District in Minonk, Illinois, and she takes responsibility for many other initiatives as well. In a short message that she posted to the DEN Illinois blog recently, Barb wrote "I am currently not only a classroom teacher but also the lead teacher for our building and a technology aide who works to assist the tech director with anything that will help make her job go a bit smoother. I love using new technology and learning more about ways to incorporate it in my classroom."

This past summer, Barb was the winner of a competition among Discovery Educators in Illinois and was awarded an InFocus LCD projector to use in the classrooms in her school. Among other activities, Barb uploaded several lesson and project files to the Educator Resource section of the DEN site, completed all of the online Interactive Training modules on the unitedstreaming site, and scheduled several training opportunities including a Digital Connection workshop for several members of her staff.