Eight years ago, I graduated from college in hopes to become an elementary school teacher. This dream of mine came true. For the last eight years, I have been an elementary school teacher in the Dallastown Area School District in Dallastown, Pennsylvania. I'm fortunate to work for a district that supports its teachers and views technology as an important tool in education. When I began in the district eight years ago, I was a third grade teacher. After teaching 3rd grade for three years, I made the switch to second grade, and after another three years, found my true calling as a Building Technology Integrator. This is my second year serving in this role. I'm responsible for teaching the computer special to Kindergarten through fifth grade students and helping teachers integrate technology into their day to day teaching. I LOVE MY JOB!
Technology first became a passion of mine at West Chester University. It is there that my eyes were opened as to how technology can change the way teachers educate and the way children learn. For the past few years, I have been following many blogs online from other technology educators, and have found them to be a wealth of valuable information. Blogs inspire me to be better, more innovative, and think outside the box. For this reason, my New Year's Resolution for 2010 is to create my own blog!
One of the things I notice working with students and teachers is that many people are afraid to try new things out of fear of the unknown. My purpose for this blog is to share what I am doing in the classroom with my students and my colleagues, the successes and the failures. I plan on sharing technology resources that I find beneficial and websites to be used by students and teachers.
My plan is to make a posting at least once a week...hopefully more! Hopefully everyone will experience a happy and healthy 2010!
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That's great that you made a resolution and stuck with it. I will be interested in what you have to say since I'm passionate about technology integration in my second grade class. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
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ReplyDeleteGood to see you in the edublogosphere! I've been meaning to drop you a note here since I saw you beginning to blog. It looks great so far and thank you for sharing what you're doing in the classroom. It is important for people interested in technology to know what works and what doesn't work, what new tools are out there, and what tips you can provide to better assure success. Congrats and keep up the great work!
Chris