Digitally Me

Creating my digital footprints was a lot easier than I thought it would be.  I was sitting here wondering what I could possibly put into it when I just decided to put in everything that has led me to the decision to be a teacher.  My first thought was while I was getting my B.A. at SUNY Stony Brook when a professor suggested it to me.  While I was studying and acting in NYC many people told me I had a knack, and patience to teach people.  I still was not convinced so I went to SUNY New Paltz to get my Masters in English.  After some thought, and focusing on other things I finally came to the conclusion that teaching is for me.  I am very excited to begin the final career decision of educating!

Lauren

Toolkit has changed my life forever

I had a lot of fun creating my section of the toolkit.  I found the readings helpful, as it gave me a more clear idea of how to go about creating one.  My other teammates also helped me with their examples.  I still am having a little trouble getting some pictures to show up in the toolkit if anyone has any ideas for that.  The sites I found, I will definitely come back to as they are very helpful for teaching.  This project forced me to use higher thinking, because I have no experience with this.  I have thought deeply about the type of teachers I have had in the past, and how little technology was used.  I am angry that I was not prepared for this technological world we live in.  I will not allow my students to go out into the world with no knowledge of the tools available for them.  This would make things so much easier, and if I had known about all this ie. google docs my scholastic life would have been a lot easier....

Powerpoint

I did my PowerPoint Presentation on Chatty Chris, I feel like I learned a lot about proper chatroom etiquette.  I was never one to join chatrooms, considering my Father used to catch predators, and would probably have broken my computer if he saw me talking to people I did not know. hahaha.  But there are a lot of children who do not have supervision and it would be a good idea for the them to learn about these things in school.Having grown up around so much talk about internet predators I feel I had an advantage, and I often forget not everyone knows the dangers.  I found googledocs easy to use, which was a shock because I have never even considered using it before.  Now, I plan to for many of my projects in the future.  Team techsavy is still working together well and I am excited for our next project!

March 1, 2011

I feel like things are finally beginning to make sense.  I still have some kinks to work out in some of my project, and I'm having trouble figuring out what exactly is due and when.  If there was some sort of checklist it would make things more helpful.  I had a lot of fun creating my wiki page, and my WDYDWYD page, when I actually figured out how to use it.  I feel like our group works well togther.  Tonight Granger, Monique, and I met at Barnes and Noble and got some work done, and were able to discuss some of our concerns. 

Obviously not a computer genius :(