Techno Tadpole Transforms

Technological Rock Star! 

     Finished up my Boot Camp Tech Skills Chart, today, amazed at my progress.  My Sakai “Practice Class,” Composition I, complete with super-duper, resource-rich syllabus, is up and running.  I don’t actually teach any online classes, yet, but I have all the building blocks in place to accept some.   Also, having created one online class, I feel a lot more confident in setting up another.  I’ve certainly enjoyed working with our college’s online classroom technology coach, Christina Schweibert, and I consider her to be a friendly, approachable resource.  Perhaps my lack of hysterical,  gotta’-have-it-yesterday attitude has helped us work together. 

I’ll miss blogging here, to some extent.  In recent years, weblog technology has become a widely used tool of communication with discussion forums, blogs and chat.  The New York Times reported thousands of teachers using blogs.  Teacher-generated blogs can be helpful in professional development to support technological training logs and goals.  Maintaining a blog with evidence of goals achieved allows supervisors and coordinators to be able to follow the progress. I might blog again, but I think I’ll set up an address with a built-in mnemonic and my name, like my Google website, Write on, Mrs. Frake!  https://sites.google.com/site/writeonmrsfrake/. 

This technology blog helped me to critically reflect on my technology integration, inside and outside of the classroom, and helps my teacher to record my progress and goal achievement.

Rather than feeling finished, I feel like this has been a springboard to continued training.  I’ve signed up for two faculty training sessions on Excel Spreadsheets this spring, at my college.  I’ve also signed up for a Visio training in January.  

Woo hoo!  This neophyte techno-tadpole is turning into a…mermaid!