My Very First Blog

Being a teacher can be very complicated and very difficult at times and often you need assistance from many different sources.  This is why I have decided to start a blog.  That and my professor wants me to.  I am excited to get into this either way as I believe posting publically like this will assist in getting more ideas and thoughts from others.  I can only hope that this will diversify my knowledge on education as well as connect me to others with the same passion I have.  But first, the class work.  Let’s do that now and I will post more at a later date about other things.

What are your personal technology goals?

My school is a one-to-one school for iPads so we are very fortuitous in the blessings that we have been given by our state and district.  My personal goal for technology would be to not let it become a crutch for me in my teaching.  I want to still have my main focus on teaching and coming up with my own lesson plans and ,as a science teacher, different labs.  Technology makes life easier but I don’t want it to be too easy.

What do you expect to gain from this course?

I expect to gain a lot of good information at utilizing our schools one-to-one status to better assist our students.  I am hoping that this course will provide me with some solid general resources to help with my future class preparedness.  This is something that I feel I suffer in and would like to improve.

Predict hope this course will fit into your future aspirations.

I predict that this course will make me a more well rounded educator and will assist me in learning to use all of my resources to help my students.  I also think this course will help to ground me in the new world of technology that we have.


Thank you all for reading this first post and I look forward to our journey in the future!

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