Leslie Pralle Keehn is a currently a technology integration consultant for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency out of Blairsburg, Iowa, and previously taught 6-12 grade social studies and computer. She became passionate about using technology very early in her social studies classroom after receiving a grant to buy a Nintendo Wii for her classroom. She is passionate about gamification, blended learning, global connections, and student creation and collaboration beyond the classroom walls. 

A 2011 C-SPAN Educator Fellow, Leslie was also named the 2012 Iowa Council for the Social Studies Teacher of the Year. Leslie's work now focuses on meaningful technology integration in all classrooms, empowering children to share their voice with the world, and using technology to create deep, global learning opportunities through project based learning, the maker movement, and authentic work. 

She has a BA in Political Science and a MA in Curriculum & Instruction: Technology. Her favorite part of her job is helping students digitally publish their work and receive comments from a global audience. Leslie's favorite PBS LearningMedia resources are the "Building Blocks" video collection for PK-2 about Social Studies, especially the video entitled "The White House." Anytime she can use multimedia to help support Social Studies in elementary she gets excited!