My First Blog Post! (introduction)

Hello everyone! I am excited for this class and look forward to learning more about technology and how I can incorporate it into my lesson plans and future classroom experiences. While I do have a basis in understanding of some educational technologies (including Smartboards & Smart Tables, Schoology, and TeacherTube, to name a few) I definitely hope to increase my knowledge even further with the help of you all, Dr. Chen and my classmates. My personal learning goals for this semester are still unclear to me; while I do know that I want to learn to be a 21st century teacher who uses technology to enhance learning and incapsulate students' attention, I do not yet know what resources are available to help me or in what capacity I will learn to become this sort of teacher. I am entering this course with an open mind, and hopefully that will help me to learn much that I can use to shape my personal learning goals and personal teaching philosophy. Looking forward to all this course has in store!