When I began this class, I really thought I was at least fairly in tuned with educational technology. I emailed, could used Power Point and Excel, had seen a smart board, and used Board Maker. I really did not know the scope of what was out there and not being used. Learning about blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, video resources, and school 2.0 has really changed the way I think about instruction and differentiation. I think as the school 2.0 model outlined, the possibilities for integrating technology into all aspects of our schools and community are limitless and need to be utilized in order to prepare our students for the 21st century world and job market.
Even though I am not in a teaching position, all that we have learned has made me look at new ways that I could accomplish my job as a school psychologist. I have always tried to utilize technology to make my job easier. I have use my Outlook calendar, and create tables and charts in Word and Excel to organize myself. But I know realize that I can go much beyond that to use technology as a way to collobrate with collegues in my building and beyond. As I have said in previous posts, a large part of job is working with my school's Instructional Support Team. We are currently working to build a library of academic and behavioral interventions. I had started to collect these all in a binder and had hoped to maybe eventually put them on the W drive. But now I am thinking about starting a wiki to make them even easier to access and maybe even getting others outside of the building to contribute to it. That is just one example of how I hope to use what I have learned to make my work both easier and more effective.
3 comments:
I have to laugh because I was feeling really good until I read your post. I've realized that I still have a long way to go with technology. I do agree with you in the fact that the technology we have learned would be beneficial to you in your role as a School Psych. I think your IST team would appreciate all that information in one place. What a great idea!
I think it would be great to build a wiki of resources. If you need any help in getting this started, please let me know. I'd love to help as well as help to publicize or train others to use it.
Your idea about IST was a good idea, and I think that all of us are cautiously excited about the possiblilities that lay ahead. You and I were in similar places as far as technology goes, and I feel your energy too as we move forward with our new knowledge. Welcome to 2.0- we can never go back!
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