Workshop 5

After looking through the material for class this week there is even more exciting ways to integrate technology into our teaching. Looking at my grade level there are lots of ways that I can be a leader and support my team to help encourage personal growth as well as professional growth in the area of technology.

Luckily for me my team of teachers at very interested in new ideas. They are always willing to try new things even if they aren't very confident in the material.

When I went through this weeks material the one area I immediately thought of when I read through the material was creating a personal learning network. We all work well together but we don't share much when it comes to technology. Every year our team has to have a goal we work towards. Next year I think creating and sharing as a personal learning network in the area of technology would enhance our teams skills.

I also would like to sit down and look at what we consider the technology component of each of our units. Each project focuses on integrating a specific program (word, publisher, etc) with the unit theme. However with the NETs standards we really need to enhance even more integrating more than one NETs standards. Using collaboration and communication with our PowerPoint project for example.

This class has really made me begin to think about 21st century and technology skills as more than just learning how to use a computer and it's programs. It's about prepping our students for the "new" real world!