About Eva La Mar
Since graduating from California Poly-Technic State University in 1990, Eva La Mar has taught 6th grade GATE, 6th grade ESL, 4th grade GATE, 3rd grade GATE, and adult education. For the last four years she has traveled across the US as a Senior Trainer conducting “train the trainer” sessions for the Intel Teach to the Future program. Eva has also presented workshops, poster sessions, and traditional sessions at many different conferences. She has earned her “Cross Culture and Language Acquisition and Development” certificate from UC Davis, her “Online Learning and Teaching” certificate from CSU Hayward, and is in process of completing her MS in Online Learning and Teaching. Current Eva serves as the One-to-One Laptop Initiative Program Development Specialist for Springfield Public Schools.
As an educator Eva launched The Geo-Literacy Project. The Geo-Literacy Project is now used in schools across the country and has been featured in multiple magazines, web sites, and in many colleges of education. Eva has also won numerous awards across the curricular areas for her innovative use of technology. Included in this is using clay animation to model plate tectonics, QTVR object movies of Indian artifacts and wildlife skeletons, QTVR movies of historic locations, and digital movies to show higher order thinking skills. Eva’s focus in on the power of collaboration: be it between students, teachers, specialists in the field, and/or working with local universities. In 2004 Linda Ferguson became a co-director of The Geo-Literacy Project and began having students collaborate over the miles as well as with experts in the field. Eva has also been collaborating with Don Bain of the Geography Department at the University of California, Berkeley as well as with other universities. Students across the age levels collaborate with each other as well as with local organizations, museums and specials in the field.
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