Time for an update!

I started a new position at a new school. I noticed that I've been getting a lot more activity on my blog and I thought hey I need to start actually updating it! For the past 6 years I have been a third grade teacher. Now I am at a new school as instructional technology coach. This new position is kind of like a resource, I go into classrooms throughout the day and work with the teachers on integrating technology in their lessons. I have gotten to see so many different grade levels and so many different levels of expertise. As I write my plans I try to think about ways to make the everyday teachers life easier through using technology. That was my biggest thing when I was in the classroom! I didn't want one more thing to make my life harder. I I know how valuable time is for teachers, and technology can provide more time for everyone! Now I just have to get everyone to buy into that idea! Being a classroom teacher you only have to worry about you and your kids and your students parents. Now as in instructional technology coach I have to think about the teachers the administrators the students the students parents and everyone else that's involved with our school as I try to initiate a paradigm shift. Luckily, with common core technology integration is expected. I have been working with lots of teachers on global lessons and getting their message out to the community and others. We have been working a lot with augmented reality lately. I'll tell more about that in a later post. So as I've been getting settled into my new job., I've been very focused on finding ways to make technology easier and more accessible for every teacher. You can see the present that I sent out last week to my teachers where I gave them ideas for technology that they could implement in their classrooms the very next day. A lot of the teachers told me that they would be downloading the app or checking out the website that we need that I showed as soon as they could! It's all about the by an!