Check Us Out! We are so techie.

Here are our class responses to this week's poll:  How do you communicate/publish online?  Looks like we don't have many gamers in the group.  But there's a lot of experience in this class.  Thanks for playing.

0 A bit about me

As a school librarian, I have been teaching students utilizing technology for 18 years.  With 125 students and 6 classes a day, I've been afforded a lot of opportunity to try new tools and have learned its okay to take risks knowing new units may ultimately fail.

The other part of my job is to provide professional development for teachers, much of it on technology.  I have been professional development contact at two schools, have presented more than 50 workshops in eight Florida counties, and have provided 28 webinars for organizations reaching 70% of Florida school districts.

Personally, I am still growing with tech.  This summer I took Dr. Dennen's Web 2.0 and Web Analytics classes.  I've learned how to create a PLN (personal learning network) and how to track and understand data that web hits produce.

Through this course, I hope you all will teach me some new tech tools and uses for those tools.  Many of you are on the cutting edge of what's new and cool.  Please speak up in class, (in a kind, gentle manner), to say, "We don't really use xyz anymore.  Now we use abc."

I truly hope you enjoy this class and, if nothing else, you learn that you as a teacher are responsible for providing a 21st century education for your students.  I have seen too many teachers think that the standard curriculum is enough.  It's not!