Blog #6
I will definately try to keep myself posted on technology with education in the future. I believe with the kind of world we live in now, and going into education myself, it would be foolish to not keep myself and my students informed of what is available to us. I went to http://www.thejournal.com and it seems like an interesting magazine to subscribe to. I love to read as it is, so having a magazine like that to read every once in a while would be beneficial. I also went to http://www.kentisd.org and found several different workshops I can attend to help me learn more about technology and teaching. I would most definately take advantage of this. I know we got a brief overview of how to use different programs, such as Excel for example, but I would like to take a class that would go more in depth with it, and I am very much interested in learning more about Access as well. I would like to be able to incorporate technology as much as I can in my classroom, such as playing with the handhelds, to get my students more exposure to something that they may have never thought of to use before. I know personally, I didn’t know much about handhelds until our second in-class lab. I am also interested in looking more into becoming a MACUL member and attending workshops in the future. The Special Interest Groups would be very helpful to me. It’d also be nice to be able to attend (at least once) one of the NECC conferences, just to get a feel as to what they’re like. Again, I can’t teach with/about something I am not familiar with myself, so I thing attending workshops and subscribing to magazines are not only helpful, but something that would be fun to do as well.
