Tonia+Olsen

**media type="custom" key="4110359" I have a classroom hamster named Hotpocket who has summered in the mountains with Ms. Olson, Bernie, & Matilda.

Hello, Everyone! My name is Tonia Olson and I teach at the Caldwell Career Center Middle College in Caldwell County. I attended Appalachian State University for my undergraduate and graduate degrees. My teaching assignments vary year to year, and I believe this coming year I’ll be teaching Civics & Economics and English II. We use a lot of technology at our school, and I try every year to have a paperless classroom. In fact, I believe our student to computer ratio is 2:1! I am very excited about the New Literacies Teacher Leader Institute and getting to know other professionals who share my interest in determining ways in which to use technology to understand what literacy means in the new millennium.** media type="custom" key="4110415" width="108" height="108" Name That Written Artifact ... [I am going to take a famous speech, a portion of legislation, or any other written artifact of our countries political history and make a WORDLE. The student who gets the answer right first has the choice between 3 prizes. They can take Hotpocket (our class critter) home for the weekend, they can sit in the comfy teacher chair for 5 days, or the mystery surprise!]