Who is Candy?
Candace Hackett Shively is Director of K-12 Initiatives at TeachersFirst.com. TeachersFirst is celebrating ten years as a free, ad-free teacher resource web site, a service of the non-profit Source for Learning , Inc.(once known as NITV). Candy has 27 years experience as a teacher in grades 2-12 in multiple subjects, as a gifted program specialist, and instructional technology specialist. She has designed and taught many undergraduate, graduate, and inservice classes on educational technology. She has presented at the Pennsylvania Technology Summit (for teacher educators), Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education, Pennsylvania Educational Technology Exposition and Conference, and other venues on educational technology topics and innovations.
Candy introduced the TeachersFirst Edge in 2006, specifically to help teachers and students envision effective and safe ways to use web 2.0 tools in the classroom. She is author of TeachersFirst’s Blogging Basics for the Classroom and Wiki Walk-Through: practical, idea-filled tutorials to help teachers get started with web 2.0 tools. The Edge brings TeachersFirst’s in-the-trenches understanding of the challenges and realities of the classroom to many thousands of dedicated teachers in over 60 countries: teachers who want to learn more about the role of technology in changing the way they teach and students learn. Those know Candy’s work say that her strength is an approachable, pragmatic, yet highly creative vision for new technology tools in real classrooms.
