My Thoughts in Technology

First and foremost, I think that I will have an extremely difficult time if I ever had to 'disconnect' to technology. I love getting my email on my phone, staying connected with friends, near and far, on social networking sites, and even check the weather on my phone to make plans for the day with my children. I think I would be considered a digital native but know that I am no where near the native that my students have grown up to become.

Some technology/websites/applications that I use for personal and/or professional use:

• email
• Explorer/Firefox/Google Chrome
• playlist.com
• Pandora
• Blackberry
• Facebook
• iTunes
• Skype
• Thinkfinity
• Audacity (playing with this)
• Kindle
• Diigo
• Wikispaces (rdgpizzo.wikispaces.com)
• Voki
• Glogster
• Blabberize
• Animoto
• Twitter
• Blackboard
• Angel
• Moodle

Being in education, I know that I must be willing to learn about new technology trends on a daily basis. My students are talking about the technology that they personally use and I want to have them use technology in their daily learning. With everything that needs to get done in the normal school day, I often feel that there are not enough hours in the day to 'play' with technology so I look forward to learning about technology in education for myself and my students.