Hi. This is my first blog. I decided to take this technology course because I think technology is so important for a teacher know and I think it is one think that future employers will be looking for on my resume. In my year on placement, my teacher had a smartboard in her classroom and we used it all the time. My teacher however, was not very technologically advanced, but luckily for her, her students were, so they would set up the smartboard and turn it off and help her with any problems. This semester, my teacher knew very little about smartboard, but attempted to use it since the principal was pushing that, but we never got very far with it and unfortunately I had forgotten a lot of what I had learned the year before about smartboard. So smartboard is definately something I would like to be a lot more comfortable with, because I think it is something that will help me stand out when looking for a job.
I also think it is important to have a good grasp on technology because I have noticed that the teachers who do know a lot about technology and integrate it into the curriculum get the new technology in their class. It's not the older teachers who are getting smartboards, it's the teachers who know the most about technology and the teachers who are most willing to use it in their classroom.
I would also be interested in learning ways to display students work and ways to let parents know what my students are doing in the classroom through technology. Something like a web page or a blog would also be a good way to let parents respond to me and what we have been learning.