Rockingham County Public Schools

31 year teacher for RCPS, Mr. Showker's educational classroom career centered around middle school Health and PE, Computer Literacy and coaching. His health instruction included family life, nutrition, substance abuse, consumer health, first aid and safety.  

Joe is NETS*T certified, NTTI Key Note Speaker and Teacher of the Year Runner-up. VHSCA Assistant Coach of the Year and Clinician.  He was awarded the "Children's Champion Award" from WebWiseKids. He can help you to enhance your classroom instruction with multi-media, impact students computer experiences including Internet safety and digital ethics, and assist teachers in productivity and technology efficiency. 

Full Bio PDF

Safenetting.com -Internet Safety

Delicious-Digital Ethics

Joe's Portaportal

Magic Moments in RCPS Technology

Joe's Quick Look-up Instructional Links

• Multi-media instruction and presentations including video, and sound including FlipCams
• Graphics and digital photography
• Internet Safety and Digital Ethics
• Webpage creation 
• Instructional slideshow/presentation development
• Research based learning and lesson planning
• Web2.0 collaborations including video conferencing, social networking and blogging
• Increasing classroom/teacher efficiency through the use of technology
• Power School Teacher and Gradebook mentoring
• RCPS Moodle and remote learning for classrooms and teachers

• Apple's iLife Applications
• OSX tips/tricks
• Apple's iWorks Applications
• Appleworks Suite
• Web page creation -First Class, Blogger, Komposer and iWeb
• Quicktime/video conversion and production
• PDAs and the Mobile web
• Portaportal.com & Delicious.com bookmarking
• Skype, Facebook, TeacherTube -Web 2.0 tools for instructional use
• Photoshop Elements -graphics editors
• "First Class" email  productivity
• Power School Teacher and Gradebook
• Moodle Integration for remote learning and classroom use