Danielle Tymitz

Hello!

I'm Danielle (though I go by Danni most of the time). I am in my tenth year of teaching and have spent most of my career teaching fourth grade. I dabbled in first grade for a few years, but returned to fourth and have been there for the last five years.

I grew up in south suburban Chicago where my parents still live. I moved to Ohio to attend Miami University and stayed here after graduation. I moved down to San Antonio for a couple years before returning to Cincinnati, getting married and starting a family.

I have taught for Mt. Healthy City School District for the last five years. This school year they opened brand new schools so I moved into a brand new, technologically up-to-date building. I'm loving all the new tech tools that I have to use now and spend lots of time trying to incorporate new and interesting methods into my teaching.

I am very excited to be taking this class because it covers a lot of the areas of educational technology that I'm not familiar with. I have no experience with podcasts and other forms of multimedia that are available. In addition, I am hoping to learn new ways to incorporate online tools effectively for students that don't have access to home computers. We have lots of obstacles in our district regarding the use of multimedia. The largest of which is the filtering of YouTube. It is my hope that I will add some new methods and tools to my personal toolkit to make some of these wonderful resources available to my students.