Pat has been at Yankton High School for twenty-five years where she teaches 10th - 12th graders in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, creative writing, and 10th grade cyber-composition. She has concentrated on integrating web technology into English classrooms, presented on the topic at NCTE conventions in Baltimore and Atlanta, and helped facilitate the ACE technology workshop in Atlanta and San Francisco.
Pat is a member of NCTE, the South Dakota Council of Teachers of English (SDCTE), Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). She is the Secretary of the Assembly of Computers in English (ACE). In addition to writing lesson plans for ReadWriteThink, Pat writes and publishes mystery short stories.
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