David

David has a Bachelor's degree in secondary education and a Master's degree in instructional technology. David has spent his teaching career in Northeast Florida teaching at all levels of high school, coaching/mentoring in middle schools, and as an elementary computer lab teacher. In addition to the social sciences he has taught Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop certification, and Final Cut Pro courses in a high school new media program. David also spent many years as a district level instructional technology coordinator working with teachers integrating technology into their classrooms. As a liaison between instructional technology and information technology he led the district vision in implementation of Moodle and Wordpress These implementations allowed teachers to develop online companions to the classroom curriculum and give voice to students through blogging.

David has been presenting at Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) since 2001 and enjoys the challenges of "what's next" in education technology. He has worked with teachers across the state as a Florida Master Digital Educator and served as region 5 past president of the Florida Society of Technology in Education (FSTE).

David began working as an education consultant in August of 2010 providing training, coaching and mentoring, and custom content development for many schools and districts across the United States. During this time he has enjoyed helping teachers integrate digital resources into a variety tools and learning scenarios. In addition to working with the professional development team at Discovery Education David has enjoyed working with the DENconnects team developing lessons to support teachers as they integrate Discovery Education resources into their classroom.

David has worked on the development of eLearning courses for North East Florida Education Consortium (NEFEC) and St Johns Technical College and continues to work with schools as they implement distance and virtual learning on a variety of LMS platforms (Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, et al).

As education is faced with new challenges David has fully embraced professional development and virtual coaching via Google Meet, Zoom, WebEx, and Microsoft Teams. These tools not only open new opportunities to connect with educators but models best practices as teachers interact and engage with their students.

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