As part of an activity of the Selection Committee for the Golden Apple Foundation, we were all asked to use three post-its and write three words that best describe what the committee was looking for the 2013 Golden Apple Fellows. This best frames what the group of sixty-odd educators, from current educators and administers, college
This is a travelog of the summer of 2010. It was incredible and highly refreshing summer. Many, many times I hate talking about what’s going on, so I decided to write the middle school essay “What I did on my summer vacation.” That way I can get it all out and live in the present
What a great opportunity to motivate educators to develop and create web 2.0 projects. It is very easy to talk about the technologies, but I feel in order to walk the talk; I should model the projects I have used. So, for every web 2.0 application, I created something personal to me. I am giving
Carol Broos is working for the Golden Apple Foundation using her arts and technology background as the Technology Coordinator. Her passion is to bring infuse music and technology together in education. She recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois.
She is on the SET Connections Board, Chair of the Golden Apple Foundation Academy Board, and Poster Co-chair for the Illinois Computing Educators.
2009 Apple Distinguished Educator
2009 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year
2008 Golden Apple Fellow
2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME. She hosts a podcast show on EdReach.us called aRTs Roundtable that posts on Wednesdays, where arts educators discuss current issues involving the arts and technology.
