The Next Step

After a professional development my first year of teaching, I turned to my mentor and made the comment that all the information we learned was so overwhelming. There was so much information that I wanted to apply to my teaching that I didn't know where to start. My mentor then told me something that I still try to apply today. She said, "After each professional development, I try to pick one thing that I will use in my classroom". As this class is coming to a close, I'm definitely going to need to apply that advice. I have learned so much in this class, coming back every Thursday with something new I want to try with my students. I've realized though that if I want to integrate technology into my classroom well, I can't do everything at once. I'm going to need to take baby steps. The one project I really want to take away from this class is my digital story idea. When we do our community unit in February, I hope to add the technology component to the unit. I'm really excited now that I learned how to add sound to Power Point because that might be easier for me to make a digital story with than Movie Maker with my class. This will be the first step I'll take in adding more technology to my classroom, but I'm glad we're getting CDs with all our projects so when I'm ready to take my next steps, I'll remember where to go!