This year has provided me with many new experiences to learn from. I was eager going into it knowing that I would be exposed to many great uses of technology for the class room. What I didn't count on was how much I would encounter that I had never seen before. Most afternoons you will find me on my couch looking at a new site that I saw used in class that day.
One such site was Symbaloo. I was introduced to it in class and went home and started exploring. Within a few hours I had begun to master the ins and outs of the site. When I shared what I had learned with the teacher who had introduced me to the site I discovered that I now knew more than he did. Suddenly instead of just being the aid in the room I became the class expert on the site, teaching not only the teacher but the directing the students in setting up links and trouble shooting their work. I am surprised how easily I have taken to this role. It has defiantely helped me see how easy it could be to use technology in my own future classroom. I used to see technology as somewhat usefully but difficult to understand and therefore limiting. Now I can see the great potential it has in every classroom.
Chalk Dust
Like bits of chalk dust, reflections on teaching that stick with me.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
A beginning
I would like to start this blog by thanking those who have influenced me. Throughout my years of college and since I have had the privilege to work with many talented educators. Through these experiences I believe that I am becoming a better educator myself. I look forward to the day when I will be able to put all that they have taught me into practice in my own classroom.
I hope that by documenting what I am learning now and in the future on this blog. I will be able to help other educators, not to mention have constant reminder for myself.
I hope that by documenting what I am learning now and in the future on this blog. I will be able to help other educators, not to mention have constant reminder for myself.
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