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Looking Back, Looking Ahead

One Course Down

Wow! It is crazy to think I am already in the last week of my first course towards a technology endorsement. I feel as though it flew by! I have learned so much about myself as a teacher and as a personal user of technology. I cannot wait to begin the next course to push my knowledge even further.

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

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In late October, I began the journey towards furthering my knowledge as an educator. I was excited as I posted my first blog post and paired it with the Gif above. I wrote that I was excited to start and wanted to have a better understanding of how to implement technology in the classroom. I knew that it was important because kids today learn much differently than many teachers did when they were in school. I coupled that with this Gif to show my excitement in beginning the course. I felt I already knew a lot about technology because I had used it starting in elementary school.

I still feel the same excitement as I think back on all that I have learned. I have been able to learn about technology I had never used before, create/narrate videos, start a blog to capture everything I was learning, began using Twitter to communicate with other educators around the world, and created a website to showcase myself and my strengths. I think all of these activities have been valuable. They each had the same overall goal: to help teachers integrate technology in the classroom. I am walking away from this course with a plethora of resources, not only from my own research, but from the research of my classmates as well. 

After taking this course, I do feel like I actually know less about technology than I thought I did. I had always used technology personally, but not to the extent in which I could be in the classroom. I felt like, and still do at times, I had a more basic use than other classmates, but that is OK. I am still learning and part of learning is admitting I am not where I want to be yet.

Even though there I still much more room to grow, I am so excited to continue my journey in become a more tech literate teacher. I know it will help me to become the teacher I have always wanted to be myself and for my students.

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