B

B is for Being Yourself!

As educators, I think it is critical that we know ourselves and embrace what we have to offer our students. We need to know and trust our personalities, our strengths, our weaknesses, our resources and our philosophical outlook as teachers. When interacting with technology and sharing it with students, it is crucial that we know our limitations and continue to grow so that we can confidently share knowledge and skills with our students. If we are confident using technology and continue to learn more, the students will pick up on this and get excited about what we share with them!

Personally, I am eager to embrace more technology in education but I'm nervous as well; afraid that it won't work the way I want it too and afraid that I won't remember all the resources or the best ways to implement them. I did really like using Symbaloo (the education version) in class. I think it would be great to set it as your class homepage so kids know which apps or websites we regularly use and I could definitely see using it on the SMARTboard to organize center or workshop activities.