Looking Ahead

My teaching hasn't really been challenged or changed that much. I did find some new ideas, especially in the last assignment. There are a lot of online tools you can use in your classrooms. Some are for learning and teaching the students, and some are actually for the students to use in their everyday lives. It's great that you can bring technology into the classroom and teach with something that is very familiar to a lot of students. Teaching is definitely not an easy job, but we are teaching the future and need to do our best to incorporate everything we have learned. I learned a lot more about how to use excel and some of the different ways teachers can use it. It's really not that hard and once you start "playing around" with it, it's pretty self explanatory. Sometimes computer programs can scare us if we've never really worked with them before, so I am a lot more comfortable with making different things on that program now. Online technology is a big part of running a successful classroom and I'm glad I got the opportunity to become a little more comfortable seeing what's out there and how to use and incorporate some different things.