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The Minnesota Literacy Council training room has a SMARTBoard in it. The training team went through training and orientation about how to use it many months ago. Unfortunately, I rarely use it as anything but a projector. I decided it was time to change that and I found inspiration by searching for #smartboard on Twitter. That search led me to a blog called Teachers Love SMARTBoards with an entire list of comments by educators about how wonderful the SMARTBoard is.  (A guest post by Burgen Young)

Thank you to all volunteers who submitted stories to the 2012 Volunteer Story Contest!

We had a great response! After much deliberation, we selected three story winners:

Volunteers as dedicated as Joe Conry don’t come around every day. Not only is Joe an exceptionally talented communicator, but he is also extremely dedicated. In fact, Joe may be the first person at the Minnesota Literacy Council who has essentially done three internships.

Joe started in June 2011 as the summer volunteer outreach intern. At the end of the summer, he decided to stay on in this role through December to be an outreach intern for a second term. Then, in January 2012, Joe started a new role as a Journeys Editorial Intern which he holds today.