Personal Technology Reflection

As the first part of my journey comes to an end in CEP 810 I have exceed my own abitlities, met my goals and learned a great deal of very useful inforamtion.  This course has opened my eyes to the vast ammount of resources that are available for educators in technology.  I had no idea how much there actually was out there. The activities that we completed have given me a good base to hopefully use them in the near  future to make teaching my students the best it can be.
To be an effective teacher when integrating technology is it important to look at all of your learners.  There are visual , kinethetic, and auditory learners  No matter what grade or age that you are teaching.  You need to know how your students learn best and provide those avenues for them.  Using technology makes that task easier.  For example, it you teach a lesson using a SMART Board, you can reach all learners if you create the right type of lessons.  What I have found in my experience as an educator is that a large majority of kids are visual learner so using the SMART Board is perfect for that!
The assignment that was most useful for me was the SIG plan.  I was able to take something that I was interested in and could use in my classroom and grow it.  I was able to push myself outside of my comfort zone and build my confidence as an educator in technology.  By exploring the SMART Board I have opened a whole new door for learning in my classroom.  Not only are the kids excited because I am reaching them in a different way but I am excited. That shines through and is the best motivating factor of all.
The one new goal that I have is to share the new information about technology that I have learned with my peers and co-workers.  I know that I didn't know about a lot about the resource that are out there for teacher to take advantag of and I want make sure that others are aware of some of the awesome technology resources that there are.  I plan to share some of the technologies that I found most useful with my peers and co-workers.  Since this class has given me more confidence I know that after the courses are complete I will be much more able to keep up with the ever changing technologies.  I was scared. I don't feel scared any more.  Maybe a little apprehensive, but I now know what I am now capable of.  There are always tutorials that can help with any road block you may come to!