Meet Gil Garcia: Austin Teacher, Techie and TCEA Tweetaway Winner
Feb 16th, 2010 | By admin | Category: NewsAustin High School teacher, Gil Garcia (@giltron on Twitter) won over $2,000 in education technology for his multimedia film-making classroom. Garcia and his 11th and 12th grade students were “in the field” at the Texas Computer Education Association Conference, shooting their own news segments, when he found out he had won. As the first educator to correctly answer a trivia question posted to Twitter, Garcia and his budding reporters headed back to school (just down the road) with a full suite of classroom technology.