So Long Summer School...

As part of my Masters program through Walden University please allow me to reflect on a few pieces and parts of my learning. The way this course has helped me to develop my own technology skills as a teacher is I wasn’t aware how interactive the web is. This new interaction is called Web 2.0. Web 1.0 presented information to the viewer; Web 2.0 allows the user to interact not only with the website but with other people using that site as well. Talk about a connected world! For me this has allowed an analogy to become to clear. My teaching used to be Teaching 1.0, where I presented and the students ‘got it’. Fear no longer! I have become a practitioner of Teaching 2.0, an interactive style where students interact not only with me at the teacher but with other students.
Staying plugged in with new technologies, taking classes, knowing what my students are up to as far as the newest technology will help me to stay fresh and up to date with what is happening in technology, but also this will transfer to the classroom where I can further help my students with increasing their achievement in all areas of school.
Two long term goals I have for transforming my classroom environment will be to apply for grants to secure a mini-lab for my classroom. Just three or four lap tops with internet access would allow literally the world to be at my student’s finger tips!!! Another goal I have in to finish this Master’s in technology degree and be an inspiration for my fellow teachers who maybe apprehensive about going to this new ‘Teaching 2.0’, to help them see the joy students have through self discovery and to see exactly how this style of teaching can produce a whole new style of learning.

Podcast

Well....here it is! My first Podcast...check it out! Shayne

http://www.podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1475/episodes/6899