| Tammy
has been working in education since 1977. In 1996 she began
researching school web page design and developing her local school
web site. Her web site is a showcase of the research she has done
and what she has learned about integrating the Internet into the
classroom curriculum and has won numerous web site awards. Tammy
Payton received the Milken National Educator award in 1998 and has
been recognized with a resolution from the Indiana General
Assembly on her innovative work in education. Since 1998 she has
been participating in a fellowship program with Franklin Institute
Science Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The
lesson, Abraham Lincoln, was awarded by Microsoft Encarta's web
site as the grand prize in their Teacher Collection contest and a
winner with ED's Oasis educational web site. Informational
articles, Power Point slide shows, and web-based lessons for
students have appeared on Classroom Connect, Global SchoolNet, and
Education World's web sites and in Classroom Connect's offline
resources. She has written articles that have appeared in various
state-wide technology magazines as well as in Library Talk and
Classroom Connect. Publications such as "Technology and
Learning" magazine, "Web Publishing for Teachers:
Dummies series," "Teaching K-8" magazine, and
"NEA Today" have referenced her resources.
The
educational resources that she has developed, which appear on the
Loogootee school web site, are being used by some district-wide
school corporations for curriculum development. Mrs. Payton has
led workshops locally, state-wide, and regionally on how to
develop a school web site, how to use the Internet in
collaborative projects, integrating the Internet into classroom
curriculum, and tips on developing web based activities.
Currently
she has taken a sabbatical from the classroom and is developing an
educational web site for a program that is funded by the Indiana
General Assembly through the Indiana Department of Education
called the Buddy Project System. She is working on moving and
updating the educational resources that appears on her school site
to this new educational site. She has participated in several
collaborative projects and has hosted an international
collaborative project called "Email Around the World."
She has also trained and published articles that support educators
on how they can develop their own collaborative project.
Visit
these web sites that she has developed:
Loogootee
Elementary West web site
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/west/
Buddy
System Project
http://www.buddyproject.org/
Tammy
Payton received a B.S. from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky
1976 and a Masters of Education from Indiana University 1982. |
