Publications & Web Sites

Publications:

• The George Lucas Educational Foundation 2004 “Instructional Module for Project Based Learning- An Integral Approach: CSI” Cemetery Scene Investigators
  http://www.glef.org/modules/csi/index.php

• Edutopia Magazine- November/December 2004 “Six Feet Wonder”- CSI: Cemetery Scene Investigators
  http://www.glef.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1192&issue=nov_04

• Converge Magazine- August/September 2002 Honored as a “Shaper of the Future”
  http://www.centerdigitaled.com/converge/?pg=magstory&id=24052 scroll down through the alphabetically listed name to LaMar

• Digital Cameras in the Classroom: Module 11, Intel Teach to the Future, 2001

• Intel Education: An Innovation Odyssey Day 212- The Geo-Literacy Project
  http://www97.intel.com/education/odyssey/day_212/day_212.htm

• Apple Learning Interchange: Technology Integration
  Seeing is Believing - Technology Integration in Practice http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/glefli/exhibits/1000738/Geo-Literacy.html

Web Sites:

• The Geo-Literacy Project:  Started by Eva La Mar in 1997, started online in 2000. Co-directed with Linda Ferguson
  http://www.geolit.org

• Why is the preservation of Rush Ranch Important? (2003- created by my 3rd grade class)
  http://www.geolit.org/rushranch

• CSI (Cemetery Scene Investigators) WebQuest (authored by Eva La Mar and Linda Ferguson, co-directors of The Geo-Literacy Project);         
  http://www.csiwebquest.org

• Cemetery Scene Investigators- Rockville Cemetery (2004 – my 3rd grade class project in collaboration with Linda Ferguson)
  http://www.geolit.org/RockvilleCSI/

• The George Lucas Educational Foundation 2004 “Instructional Module for Project Based Learning- An Integral Approach: CSI” Cemetery Scene Investigators
  http://www.glef.org/modules/csi/index.php

• Springfield Middle School web site, as the "One-to-One Laptop Initiative Program Development Specialist"
  http://www.sps.lane.edu/sms

• Day in the Life of a One-to-One Learning Environment- an international project being co-directed by Eva La Mar and Dr. Kyle Peck at Penn State University
  • SMS site
  • Penn State Site (without frames)
  • Penn State Site (with frames)
    

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

• ISTE HyperSIG MultiMedia Mania international competition 2004

  1st place for elementary division
  http://www.ncsu.edu/mmania/winners.html
  winning site: http://www.geolit.org/RockvilleCSI/

• 38th Annual California Student Media and MultiMedia Festival
  1st place for cross-age project
  http://www.mediafestival.org/MultiWin.html

• ISTE HyperSIG MultiMedia Mania international competition2002

  2nd place for elementary division
  http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/mm.win.final.2002.htm
  Clay animation and video explaining plate tectonics and geology

• Converge Magazine- August/September 2002
  Honored as a “Shaper of the Future”
  http://www.centerdigitaled.com/converge/?pg=magstory&id=24052
  scroll down through the alphabetically listed name to LaMar

• CTAP IV Teacher Recognition Awardees (TRAP)
  2002 California Technology Assistance Project  Award Recipient
  http://www.ctap4.org/

• NSTA – National Science Teachers AssociationBarrick Goldstrike Exemplary Elementary Earth Science Teaching Award 2002 www.nsta.org

• Intel Teach to the Future- Master Teacher of the Month for July, 2001