post5 conclusion

At the beginning of this course, you were asked to assess your present strengths and weaknesses in technology. Has your assessment changed? If so, how?

Technology has always been part of my life and I really rely on it as much to make it easier for me. I have learned more this semester of many databases from other courses that may help me in the future.  Now at work I have had the chance to go to trainings from a technology grant that my district received.  So now I am able to present anything that I need to whether for students or teachers and not just rely on powerpoint all the time.  I was so grateful to find the google docs!  I had no idea it even existed and it is so helpful to use it and not worry about moving around your laptop to present or even carry around a flash drive.  I have learned at the trainings on how to use imovie, garageband, and iphoto to do presentations, show a clip that I may edit for the students to see, making booktalks, make better future web  pages for the library site, and so on.  These trainings have also showed me to go to websites to find free music to place on the presentations and edit any movie clips I may need.  I believe the more tools and resources I have for myself, the more I can help students with their assignments and encourage students to become better readers.  Technology is impacting education and it is better to be as much knowledgeable as possible.  I need to move forward along with the present to advance to the future and not stay in the past.