Hi all! On Monday I will be starting my eighth year as a teacher at Sweetwater High School. I teach Special Education, am the Yearbook advisor, and I coach a few sports. I graduated from Sweetwater in ‘93, SDSU in ‘99, and National in ‘02. This year I will be teaching ELD, Geography, Computer Applications, and Yearbook. Having more than three preps is not cool, but when you teach Special Ed, you just get used to it. Outside of the classroom I am happily married, have three German Shepherds, and have been a wedding photographer/videographer since 2003.
Prior to the COMET program, I was only technology-savy in the field of video/photo editing and basic publishing. I had already heard of blogs, wiki’s, and podcasting, but I never really thought about implementing it into my classroom. Now I am so excited, I don’t even know where to begin. This is an instance where I really wish I only taught one or two classes. Implementing all this technology into all of my classes will be pretty much impossible. Especially since I don’t have the same schedule every year. Oh well. I will try to implement as much as I can. On a personal level, I now use my igoogle page to read my favorite blogs and I’m constantly trying to get my friends to use it as well.
I will most likely use edublog, in conjuction with my googlepages, to organize all the info my students need. I might even try to use it within our department, but who knows, I can bearly get them to use google docs to manage our caseloads.
