About

About Jen:

Jennifer Hall has been an educator for more than twenty-three years and currently serves as one of Atlanta Public Schools' Educational Technology Specialists. As a member of the district's Instructional Technology Department, Jen collaborates with teachers to effectively integrate technology in engaging standards-based lessons, works with students to foster college and career readiness skills, provides targeted school-based training, as well as relevant district-wide professional development. Jen's passion is instructional technology and fostering student engagement.
Jen is a speaker, trainer, National Board Certified Educator, ISTE Certified Educator, Google Certified Educator, Innovator, and Trainer as well as a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and Master Trainer. She created her Tech Tips 411 website to share apps, tools, resources, ideas, and more for teachers. She also shares on her Tech Tips 411 YouTube channel quick tips, how-tos, tutorials, lesson highlights, student projects, and live-streamed professional development. Jen is passionate about all things #edtech and loves working with teachers to enhance instruction and engage students.
Jen has presented at international, national, state, and regional conferences including ISTE, ECET2 Atlanta, GaETC, NCTIES, FETC, SC Midlands Summit, Peach State EdTechTeam Summit, Georgia STEAM Forum, UpState, DENATL, Discovery Education Fall VirtCon, Day of Discovery and the Discovery Educator Network Summer Institute and was the featured presenter for the Tech Tips Tuesdays webinar series hosted by GPB (Georgia Public Broadcasting).
Jen is a 2019 winner of the RJ Stangherlin Award from the Discovery Education Community as well as a 2018 DENny Award for Expertise and has served on the Discovery Education Leadership Council for five years.
Before becoming an ETS, Jen had the joy of being a middle school language arts teacher for seventeen years, teaching gifted language arts for nine years.
Along with teaching gifted ELA classes, she served as the Grade Level Director of the Gifted & Talented Academy for six years, the Communications Ambassador (managing the school's website, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube channel), the school-level gifted contact for the district.
In 2013, Jen was selected as one of 10 Atlanta Public Schools' educators to receive the Atlanta Families' Award for Excellence in Education (AFAEE). The award afforded her the opportunity to expand her Shakespeare Student Film Project. One of her proudest moments, as an educator, was having her 8th graders featured on WSBTV's People 2 People.
Jen served as a curriculum writer for the district's Gifted and Talented Department and her thematic units/lessons have been utilized throughout the school district.
In 2005-2006 Jen was Brown Middle School's Teacher of the Year (TOTY) and was a Middle School Teacher of the Year Semi-Finalist for Atlanta Public Schools.
Before moving to Atlanta she taught 6th, 7th & 8th-grade language arts, for five years, at an Alternative Education program in Tallahassee, Florida.
Jen holds both a bachelor's and master's degree from Florida State University.
Jen is proud to be a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) in the area of Early Adolescence – English/Language Arts.
In her spare time, Jen is an avid traveler and photographer. www.jlhallphotos.com

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Awards & Honors

Google Innovator #NYC19
RJ Stangherlin DENny Award - 2019
DENny Award for Expertise - 2018
Certified BrainPOP Educator of the Month - 2017
DEN Community Member of the Week - 2016
Atlanta Public Schools' Demonstration Classroom Teacher 2013-2014
Atlanta Families Awards for Excellence in Education (AFAEE) Winner - 2013
Izzit Teacher of the Year - 2011-2012
Georgia Distinguished Educator 2007
Atlanta Public Schools Middle School Teacher of the Year Semi-Finalist 2005-2006
Brown Middle School Teacher of the Year 2005-2006

News, Media & Blogs

‘Bitmoji whisperer’: Metro Atlanta teachers re-create classrooms online - AJC (August 2020)
How Districts Are Helping Teachers Get Better at Tech Under Coronavirus - Interview - EdWeek (April 2020)
Level Up with Wakelet - Blog (February 2020)
Discovery Education DENny Award (May 2019)
Lights, Camera, Action!" (Jan 2019)
TalkUp APS - DENSI (Aug 2018)
Discovery Education DENny Award (May 2018)
Georgia Public Broadcasting Blog (Jun 2018)
SOS Story - Discovery Education (Apr 2018)
Certified BrainPOP Educator of the Month (Nov 2017)
Vocabulary.com Event (Mar 2017)
DEN Community Member of the Week (Mar 2016)
Talk Up APS (Oct 2013)
Atlanta Families Awards Ceremony (Nov 2013)
Atlanta Families Winner (Oct 2013)
Georgia Distinguished Educator (2007)