Welcome, everyone! Thanks for visiting my blog about my journey through TPTE 486. I will make weekly posts about the technology and its usefulness in education that I learn about in this class. Hopefully, what I learn can be helpful to those of you who read my posts.
I have some expectations for this class. Probably the most important is that I would like to be able to take what I learn and use it in my future classroom. Technology is becoming more and more important to our society, so I see no reason why it should not be implemented into our schools, and more importantly technology can help our children learn. For example, making use of the internet can be a great help to our students' learning because it provides such a vast amount of information that is so accessible. Podcasts are another great use of technology in the school. Students can watch or listen to them when they are absent, and this will keep them from falling behind.
Another expectation I have for this class is that it will help me communicate with my students' parents. By creating classroom websites, I can provide information for the parents to access any time. And through this class, I expect to learn other ways to communicate with parents.
My overall expectation of this class is probably obvious. I would like to walk away from this class with better technology skills. I want to have a greater understanding of how to use the resources available to me. And if there is something I do not understand right away, I want to have the skills to be able to figure it out.
