I'm Jennifer. I teach 2nd grade at the Rochester International Academy. My school is for immigrants and refugees; I love this job more than any other job I've ever had. I used to teach in the catholic diocese and my students had everything and the parents were a little overbearing.
Besides teaching, I'm a mom to 2 girls, my husband recently switched jobs/careers and now works at RIT. I have a dog that drives me nuts.
I wasn't sure about Cool Tools, but my librarian recommended it to our teachers. This year I've been on a technological journey, so I decided I should give this a try.
I've never blogged before, but I've often thought about it, for my personal life and my professional life. I'm excited about this blog and I'm excited to try out new some new "cool tools".
Somewhere the course description said something like, don't just use technology for the sake of technology, it needs to be meaningful. But I wanted to say that I need to use it for the sake of technology so that I can then use it meaningfully. That's just my process, I need to throw myself into it, become familiar with it, and then it can be meaningful.
Welcome to the workshop. So glad you joined. Sounds like a challenging and very rewarding school to be working in! I completely understand your point about needing to understand the tech before you can use it meaningfully. That's very much one of the goals of this workshop, for everyone to get more comfortable exploring tech and developing a sense of what might work with your students. I liken it to knowing how all the tools in a toolbox work, if you don't know what they do, then you won't know what problems they can solve.
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