Bio
Edie Erickson is an instructional designer and certified K-8 teacher with a Masters Degree in Educational Technology. She has over a decade of experience in K-12 and higher education teaching and instructional design. She is a proud resident of Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula along with her husband, Don; daughter, Charlotte; and Bichon Frise, Marshmallow. She loves to travel and explore, and enjoys sharing her love of learning with the world!
Edie works as an instructional designer at Bay College, where she focuses on providing students with high quality, engaging learning materials. In addition, she provides meaningful, hands-on training for the faculty and staff at Bay College focusing on a range of topics including engaging students online, creating and maintaining accessible documents, designing courses using Universal Design, adopting and creating Open Educational Resources, student equity, and more. Outside of Bay College, Edie is an active conference speaking, presenting at a number of local and national/international conferences each year. She has presented on a wide variety of topics including accessibility, maker spaces, innovating and creativity, Google Docs, BreakoutEDU, Open Educational Resources, and more. Edie is an active member of ISTE and MACUL and was named the 2016 MACUL Technology Using Teacher of the Year. She is also a proponent of open education and pedagogy and was named a 2017 Designing with OER Fellow through the Open Education Group. She was named the TORCH Award winner for Fall 2018 by Bay College. |
Conferences/Key Notes
Edie loves the energy and excitement that comes with presenting at conferences. As a presenter, she strives to provide participants with a fast-paced and engaging session where they leave feeling as though they can make immediate changes to the way they teach without the need for extensive (or expensive) additional training. A teacher to her core, she knows the importance of maintaining a student-first focus, while also juggling the demands of administration and government. Her presentations are considerate of the limitations that technology, bureaucracy, and budgets can impose on teachers and works to provide solutions for overcoming in order to best serve students.
In-House Training & Workshops
As teachers, we know that one of the most enjoyable ways to learn something is by doing it. Edie uses this philosophy to provide highly engaging, hands-on training sessions at your school or district. Edie is available for workshops, seminars, school/district in-services, and webinars, all of which includes customized presentations to fit the needs of your school and students. She is also available for instructional coaching, classroom design and organization consulting, individual/departmental consultations, and maker space planning.
Some of Edie's most popular trainings are:
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Edie would love to work to come up with a plan for your school/classroom! Contact her here.
What People Are Saying
"(The best part was) having access to Edie's knowledge of the different capabilities. Learning about and experiencing the tools she thought we be most useful for us"
"Edie! She is so easy to understand and she answers questions well. She also has a lot of knowledge."
"Edie is always open to questions and discussion, and ways to make tools useful to our classes"
"The questions and answers bring out real life situations which are instructive and help with problem solving."
"I loved the engaging activity. It was a fun introduction to 365."
"It was simple. I could easily use what was taught right away."
"Some of the tools that were introduced would be cool to incorporate into my online class."
"Pushed my teaching in different ways"
"Edie! She is so easy to understand and she answers questions well. She also has a lot of knowledge."
"Edie is always open to questions and discussion, and ways to make tools useful to our classes"
"The questions and answers bring out real life situations which are instructive and help with problem solving."
"I loved the engaging activity. It was a fun introduction to 365."
"It was simple. I could easily use what was taught right away."
"Some of the tools that were introduced would be cool to incorporate into my online class."
"Pushed my teaching in different ways"
Request a quote
Interested in bringing Edie to your school? Visit the Contact Page! Be sure to include the following information in order to receive an accurate estimate:
- Location of the training (on-site vs online)
- Proposed dates/times
- Number of participants
- Type of training (workshop, on-going consultancy, keynote, etc...)
- Content of training