Meet Our Tech Team

The teachers involved in this project all have technnologically advanced backgrounds in integrating computers in the writing process. Each has specialized in an area(s) in which they could lead workshops or inservice opportunities for the Fox Valley Writing Project and area school districts.

Christine Ailport
christine.ailport@oshkosh.k12.wi.us

Christine teaches high school English in Oshkosh at North High School and a distance learning lab for creative writers.

Specialty

Blogs

Eric Bartelme
ericbartelme@hotmail.com

Eric Bartelme is an elementary teacher in the Rosendale-Brandon School District. He has taught third grade at Brandon School for four years. Technolgoy is integrated into his classroom on a weekly basis through the use of Inspiration, Power Point, Word, Internet, CD-ROMS, Distance Learning video conferencing, and with the help of a website he created specifically with links to appropriate third grade web sites. Eric has participated in the Fox Valley Writing Project Summer Institute, Summer Institute II Writing and Technology, and most recently the Technology and Writing Leadership course.

Specialty

Inspiration
Front Page

Erika Ellis
ellise@fonddulac.k12.wi.us

Erika Ellis is an English and Humanities teacher at Fond du Lac High School. She is a co-advisor of the school’s Key Club and a member of the Writing Across the Curriculum team. Erika feels technology helps students become better writers by providing a creative outlet for exploration and innovation.

Specialty

Powerpoint
Multi-Genre
Word

Wendy Falk
wendy.falk@oshkosh.k12.wi.us

Wendy Falk is an English and Journalism teacher at Oshkosh North High School, where she also advises the school newspaper, The North Star. A two-time participant of the Summer Institute, Wendy enjoys helping teachers and students incorporate technology with writing because it provides real life applications for academic skills. Wendy is also a member of the Fox Valley Writing Project board and the NorthEast Wisconsin Scholastic Press Association Board. In her free time Wendy focuses on her husband, three children, and her writing.

Specialty

Powerpoint
Multi-Genre
Word

Becky Moore
mrmoore@netnet.net

Becky teaches 6-8 Language Arts at a private school in Green Bay. Her passion is writing and she shares this daily with her students. They were even a part of her thesis journey as they heard snips and bits of short stories in the different stages of revision that later became the bulk of her thesis. She uses Publisher quite a bit in such projects as poetry books and the eighth grade anthology. Publisher, especially, allows the students to complete their writing in a publishable form--a project worth saving.

Specialty

Publisher
Word

Jeff Lucas
jlucas@neenah.k12.wi.us

Jeff is the tech liaison for the Fox Valley Writing Project. He is a fifth grade classroom teacher in Neenah with previous experience as a computer applications teacher in the middle schools. Jeff believes students should learn technology so they are able to apply it to their benefit in creating school and personal projects. He has taught and presented more than 100 workshops and classes in technology integration.

Specialty

Instructor/Coordinator