Billy Krakower

Billy Krakower is the Computer Technology Instructor, Gifted & Talented and STEAM Lab Teacher for grades three and four at Beatrice Gilmore Elementary School in the Woodland Park Public School District. For the past nine years he has served as: Special Education Teacher, an Inclusion and Resource Room Teacher. He enjoys preparing his students for the 21st century by teaching them how to use web 2.0 tools such as: Edmodo, Skype, Google Hangouts, Google Docs, and Social Media.

Billy is part of ASCD's 2014 Emerging Leaders Class, a Google Educator and a Microsoft Office Specialist. Billy has published two books Connecting Your Students with The World and Using Technology to Engage Students with Disabilities. He has presented on such topics as Connecting Beyond the Classroom, Twitter & You, Tech Tools to use for the PARCC, Google Hangouts, Edmodo and The Science Behind a Mystery Location Call. Follow Billy on Twitter @wkrakower or visit his website at www.billykrakower.com.