My purpose for being in this class is twofold. Obviously, EDU 577 is a requirement for my graduate degree, and earning a graduate degree is a requirement for maintaining my certification, employment, and thus my identity as a teacher. So I would be evasive were I not to mention this. There is, however, another point to mention. I am well aware that my grasp of technology is limited, and so I will benefit by increasing my knowledge in this area. And, I have some expectation that anything I learn in this course does have the potential to improve my instruction. Four years in education is not enough to develop a vast variety of techniques to diversify my lessons. I can use all the help I can get!
I hope to learn a bit more about webpages so I could perhaps place some of my Webquests (or, to be accurate, my Webquest attempts) online in a location other than Edline. I would not mind picking up some advanced Powerpoint stragtegies, because all I do with these now is present notes or review materials. I suppose I have some curiosity about blogs and podcasts too-I'm always hearing about these but rarely encounter them.
My current frustations are numerous, however. I am 7 school days away from the end of the school year, and between the myriad eighth-grade activities I participate in, reworking my Civil War lessons to mitigate my behindness in my curriculum, completing my grading, and cleaning my (trashed) classroom, I'm swamped. So I am concerned I will not have time to devote to the requirements of this class. And, though I am in my 20s, I suffer from "Old Social Studies Teacher Syndrome." I often view technology as something that offers more possibilities for disaster than it does enrichment. Blame the constantly-crashing BAMS mobile lab laptops, or the fact that I had a dinosaur of a computer for a decade growing up. I'm a lot happy with an overhead projector. About all that can go wrong there is that the bulb can burn out.
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