The milestones: I remember using the huge floppy disks in 5th grade, and I remember getting my first e-mail address when I started college in 1996. Those experiences were important for me, but when I became a teacher, I wanted to do more.
I’m one of the more technological teachers at my high school, where the kids are light years ahead of everyone else, but I definitely would like to do more. I e-mail a listserve of my students’ parents regularly. I take my kids to the computer lab about once a week to do research and write (and NOT play video games!). I use a digital projecter often. I have a super-simple blog for my classes (on nicenet.org), and I post the homework daily for students and parents. Kids and parents can contact me through that blog or at one of my e-mail addresses.
I would like to expand my technology knowledge to have a real interactive blog with my AP Language class this summer as they read their summer reading books. I would like to make blogging part of assignments, not just a place for me to post. I am also interested in podcasting because other schools have done “This American Life”-esque shows, and that just sounds really cool to me. Some of my top kids are capable of making really amazing presentations and movies for classes, and I would like to use some of that energy to make our language applications more interesting to them and more connected to the real world.
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