Tina Coffey has been a public school teacher for twenty-one years, the last fifteen as an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher. She holds her Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech and her Bachelors from Emory & Henry College. She works with teachers at three schools in Roanoke County, helping them learn to use and integrate technology into their classrooms through inservices, small group training, and co-teaching. She is passionate about STEM activities, Project Based Learning, Makerspaces, and other technology and hands-on methods to engage students, make learning relevant, and foster 21st Century skills. She presents at various local, state, and regional conferences and teaches technology and teacher recertification classes at Virginia Western Community College.
She loves traveling, schnauzers, reading, hiking, camping, geocaching, backpacking, gadgets, yoga, having fun, and staying connected. She blogs about STEM, PBL, and Maker activities at the Learning Collaboratory (www.learningcollaboratory.com).