Welcome

Welcome to our site!

This is a site we created to increase communication with teachers, students, and schools all over the world. We are the technology team from Roland Story Elementary School, located in Story City, IA. We are 1:1 with iPads in grades 1-4, as well as partial integration in Kindergarten, Special Education, and Early Childhood Special Education.

On this site, you will find many different resources. We will post updates to notify our teachers about news or solutions to technological problems. As we find lesson ideas with different technology tools, we will post those for anyone who is interested. We will also add questions that people may have, in the FAQ section. This site is a work in progress. Keep checking back to see how we grow and adapt!

If you have a thought, problem, concern, or idea, please comment on a post! We look forward to communicating with this tool.

Roland Story employs undergraduate students from Iowa State University who are studying education with a technology minor. We will be the ones primarily running this site.

Meet the technology team!

Mr. Rader, technology coordinator for the district.

Katherine Carpenter has been a technology intern at Roland Story middle school since August and will now be working at the elementary school as well! She is a junior in Elementary Education with endorsements in Reading, English/Language Arts and a digital technologies minor at Iowa State University. Katherine is from West Des Moines, Iowa and looks forward to learning and working at the elementary level!

This is Summer Illg's first semester as being a technology intern with Roland Story elementary school.  She is from Des Moines, Iowa and is exited for her new opportunity here at Roland Story.  She is currently a junior in Elementary Education at Iowa State University getting her endorsements in Mathematics, Reading, and a minor in digital technologies.

Meet our past contributors:

These people previously worked at Roland Story Elementary. We appreciate the work they have done for our school district and wish them the best in their future endeavors!

Courtney Stakey worked as a technology intern from January 2014 until May 2015. She studied Child, Adult, & Family Services and Early Childhood Education at Iowa State University and is originally from Kamrar, IA. Courtney is student teaching at Willowbrook Elementary, part of Southeast Polk School District, in their Early Childhood Special Education classroom and at Hanawalt Elementary in a kindergarten classroom with Des Moines Public Schools. 

Jenny Kersten worked as technology intern from August 2013 until December 2014. She studied Early Childhood Education at Iowa State University and is from Fort Dodge, IA. Jenny is a first grade teacher at Butler Elementary in Fort Dodge.

Jill Christiansen worked as a technology intern from August 2013 until December 2014.  She studied Elementary Special Education at Iowa State University and is from Newell, IA. Jill is as a Level 2 Special Education Teacher at Storm Lake Elementary.