Tammie Klage
Hi there everyone! My name is Tammie
and I am a SLIS student in my 4th
semester. At the end of last semester,
I was officially certified to be a
Media Specialist in an Elementary
School. This Spring, then, I will
complete my MLS degree in full. I am
excited to be in this class! I took
Information Inquiry and Electronic
Materials online with Dr. Lamb, so I
know we will have a lot to learn from
her!
Right now I am the assistant media
specialist at Prairie Trace Elementary
School in Carmel. In addition, I am a
teacher at Huntington Learning Center.
I have been teaching in various
positions for 9 years. I began teaching
in Yorktown, Indiana as a sixth grade
teacher for 2 years. I was nominated
for the Sallie Mae Outstanding First
Year Teacher for the State of Indiana.
I then moved to Atlanta, Georgia where
I taught third grade for 2 years and
first grade for 2 years at Oak Knoll
Elementary School in the Fulton County
School System. When I moved home to
Indiana, I was the Science Lab Teacher
at Mary Castle Elementary School for
one year, and a third grade teacher at
Harrison Hill Elementary School for
another year, both in Lawrence
Township. Finally, last year I moved to
Carmel, and began my MLS program. I was
an Instructional Assistant at
Collegewood Elementary School last
year, before moving to Prairie Trace.
Here are some links to my professional
materials:
My Web Page:
 http://mypage.iu.edu/~tklage/TammieSite.htm
My Electronic Portfolio:
 https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/tklage/Filemanager_Public_F
iles/ElecPort.doc
Dr. Lamb mentioned the pew article
about the different types of technology
users. I am not sure which one area I
fit into. I use technology every single
day, from my 3 email accounts, to my
internet access at school, at work and
at home, to Oncourse, to Onestart, to
my palm pilot, to my jump drive, to my
cell phone, to my IPod, to my digital
camera, and the various creative
software programs I use to create
materials for my students, my
colleagues, and my school. In these
ways I consider myself extremely
technology proficient.
One thing I do not do, is I do not use
the all in one gadgets. I have a phone,
an IPod, a camera, and a palm pilot.
There are 4 separate devices and I have
really had no desire to get a more
complex gadget that has all the
features in one. I have never had a
camera phone, I do not use my phone to
get to the internet or play music, and
I do not have a calendar built in to my
phone. I see how it may be
advantageous, but I just feel more
comfortable with my individual
components.
Another place where I think I am not
making the most of technology is my use
of the web. Yes, I constantly use the
internet to find information of all
sorts, but I do not participate in any
interactive web 2.0 activities such as
my space, chats, face books, delicious,
or the web second life activities.
So… what does all this mean? I see
myself fitting into the productivity
enhancers category, or maybe even the
connectors.
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that is enough about the
professional stuff! Let’s
fun stuff! I am very busy!
jobs and Grad School, I do
not have a lot of spare time, but I use
it well. Of course, as you would guess,
I like to read. I especially like to
read materials for children. I have
been hooked by Harry Potter over the
past years. I was thrilled to complete
the final book this summer! My last
”Grown Up” book that I read and was
really “In To” was the Davinci Code.
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I also enjoy art. I paint and I draw. I
also do crafts and I am a new
scrapbooker. Thanks to Dr. Lamb I have
discovered electronic scrapbooks as
well as the hard copy kind.
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Music has a huge place in my
heart and in my life. I pl ay
piano a nd I absol utely LOVE to
sing. I sing with a band at my
churc h. One of my favorit e
special treats is to go to the
theate r to see a good sho w.
My most important pastime, though, has
to be my fiancé. We are getting married
next summer! Here we are together!
We like to do so much together! We like
to go bowling and I am learning to play
golf. (Mostly because I do not want to
be left at home every weekend in the
Spring and Summer!) We go to shows
together or to the movies. We go out to
see the Indianapolis Indians, the
Colts, the Pacers, and the Indiana Ice
play. We also like to go to races at
the Speedrome, O’Reilly Raceway Park,
and of course at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway. We go to museums and the zoo
too!
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We have a great friend in our family
too! This is Eli. He is an AKC
registered Black Lab and we have raised
him since he was a pup. He is also a
“Ham” for the camera!
My fiancé is the manager of a bar/
restaurant near our apartment. We spend
a lot of our free time there. Although
I do not drink at all, and he does not
drink a lot, all of our friends are
there and it is more like an extension
to our home. We go up there to watch a
good Football game or NASCAR race. We
go up for poker night to play in a
friendly Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament. He
is trying to teach me to play pool...
although I am not god at all! Here we
are at the New Years Eve Party!
My favorite thing to do at the bar, and
actually how we first met, is to sing
Karaoke! As I mentioned, I do not drink
at all. I came into the bar the first
time, just because I saw a sign for
karaoke and wanted to try out singing.
After a few visits on Karaoke night, he
was off work one evening and came and
sat with me. As they say, the rest is
history and we have been together ever
since! Now I sing at least a couple of
times of week!! Here I am singing my
heart out!
Well, I am sure that you now know more
about me than you ever needed! If not,
here is a link to fun Kidspiration
organizer I made in my class with Dr.
Lamb last semester!
https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/tklage/File
manager_Public_Files/AllAboutMe.doc
I am looking forward to getting to know
all of you too! Good luck this
semester, and I know we will have a
great class!