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I hope you take the time to learn more about me and my professional and personal interests by perusing my ePortfolio. Scroll through my biography or click on the links to the left. To hear an mp3 audio greeting from me, please click the play button! media type="file" key="Greeting2.mp3"For a transcript of my greeting, click on the following Word document.

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Norma Thiese teaches several professional development courses including Using Primary Sources in the 21st Century Classroom; Using Lexile to Differentiate Instruction; and Using the Iowa Online Resources in the Classroom. She has twenty-eight years of experience in the field of K--12 education. She has been a school librarian, regional center librarian, classroom teacher, and consultant. She was awarded a grant to become an [|American Memory Fellow] at the Library of Congress in 1999. Norma has taught various other adult level courses throughout her career.======

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In addition to teaching, Norma has been a newspaper reporter and worked in a university library as a student. She was chairperson of a school district technology committee and was instrumental in obtaining computers for all teachers in the early years of computers in education.======

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Currently, Norma works for [|Keystone Area Education Agency] as a Media/Technology Consultant and is involved with many educational initiatives. Most recently she has been supporting Iowa’s Model Core Curriculum initiative, offers training in various technologies including Web 2.0, supports school librarians in their work, and is a trainer for Northwest Evaluation Association’s (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) testing system.======

Norma lives on a farm in rural [|Guttenberg, Iowa]. Her hobbies include reading, traveling, gardening, and trying new recipes, especially grilling recipes. She is a member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. Her husband is deceased but she has four grown sons and three wonderful grandsons who live nearby!

Future plans? She would love to be a tour guide in retirement years!