About Linda Houle

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Linda Houle is a retired librarian/technology facilitator with 28 years in education. She began her career as a librarian at the high school level before taking a break for family. She continued using her library skills as a volunteer in district libraries before becoming a teacher's aide teaching 2nd and 3rd grade Reading Enrichment. During the 90s and 2000s she was a junior high school Media Center Director/Building Technology Facilitator creating the first 6-8 literacy curriculum, automating the library, participating in district wide automation, providing staff development, creating and maintaining the junior high website, and serving as District Media Coordinator. Her junior high website won recognition multiple times. In 2008 she and her 8th grade literacy colleague received a SIGMS Technology Honorable Mention for their 8th grade decades project which was the original impetus for her list of 20th century decades resources. Through the 2010’s she presented at multiple ICE COLD and ICE* conferences.
 
Her interest in No Registration Web 2.0 tools began in 2008, when seeking tools for the under 13 crowd and she continues to curate those web resources today. Since 2008 the original list of No Registration sites grew from 38 to an average of 215 sites with more to be tested. Today she actively maintains a presence on LiveBinders, her preferred tool for embedding her suggested websites and content allowing visitors to interact with everything listed on her website directly within the binder. From her initial junior high website to three wikis on Wikispaces, and now with her own site, L. Houle's Ed Tools, she continues to share and expand resources for educational and research purposes.

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*Illinois Computing Educators is now Illinois Digital Educators Alliance IDEA