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Meet Gil Garcia: Austin Teacher, Techie and TCEA Tweetaway Winner

Feb 16th, 2010 | By admin | Category: News

Austin 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.



Qwizdom to go big in Texas, giving away over $30K in interactive classroom technology at TCEA

Feb 2nd, 2010 | By admin | Category: Press Releases

February 2, 2010 — AUSTIN,Texas – Qwizdom is kicking off the Texas Computer Education Association Conference (TCEA) by giving and “tweeting away” over $30,000.00 in interactive learning systems, curriculum and software to educators at the conference and across the nation. The company says it hopes to see the technology encourage teachers/administrators to create engaging classroom [...]