Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Hello World!

My name is Courtney Yee :) Before this class I thought I understood quite a bit about technology (well , sort of) but now I feel as if i know nothing! I am really glad I took this class because 2 weeks in I have already learned lots. I already had a facebook but I never had my own blog, twitter, webpage, etc. and I am excited to put those to use. Throughout the semester I am excited to learn more about building my own webpage because I think this will turn out to be a great resource for my students and their parents. I wasnt sure whether we were supposed to start a 'teacher' page but I did anyways and Im excited to add more to it later on. With all the accounts we've been creating I expect this course to use these resources throughout the entire semester and to teach us how to incorporate all of this into our classroom. Technology is growing every single day and I am excited to use it in my classroom. They say that we teach, how we were taught, but I cannot see myself teaching without any sort of technology involvement at all. My elementary classes had (maybe) one computer, a tv, and an overhead projector, but thats it! Now I go to my placements and see smartboards, hundreds of computers, numerous tv's, etc. I am super excited to start teaching and after this class I hope to have a better grasp on what technology I can use so my students will learn better.