Hello Everyone!
My name is Sue and I wear many hats in both my job and my life. A common theme that I see running throughout all aspects of what I do, whether it is for work or play: technology.
As an educator in the role of Director of Supervision and Training for Learning Exchange, technology has been and continues to be a critical tool for me to use on a daily basis. In terms of supervision, I rely on Outlook to facilitate communication with my staff via email and shared calendars. When it comes to delivering training for new staff and staff development throughout the year I have used presentation tools, such as Power Point and an interactive whiteboard technology called mimio, to create visual as well as hands on support. While I believe these tools have been useful and effective in the past, I find that I want to expand my repertoire and freshen things up for my staff and for my own professional development. It is time for me to take it to the next level! I look forward to gaining experience and fluency in the use of blogs, vrooms and continued integration of whiteboard technologies to keep my staff supported, engaged and excited about the work they do with our Title I students.
Learning Exchnage, the company I work for, advocates 21st century learning for both the teachers we employ and the students who participate in our programs. Technological literacy is one of many 21st century skills we integrate into our lessons, but we are still in the learning process of figuring out the most effective application in our supplemental program. I hope that through my coursework in the MEIT program I will be able to help guide and support our company's mission of devloping 21st century learners, as well as help our teachers toward continued professional growth in this area.
Although we are just getting started in this journey, I can already see the benefits of what I have learned--in the matter of a week I have created my first vroom, used Google Docs for the first time in a collaborative manner and I am now making my initial post on a the first blog I've ever created! Talk about exploring new territory. I look forward to all of the "firsts" to come over the course of the next two years or so, and I anticipate that I will be pushed out of my comfort zone regularly; but I welcome the challenge! Stay tuned...
