Testing. Testing. 1, 2, Let's Get Blogging!

   

     Today I embark on a blogging journey thanks to my current Walden University course: Understanding the Impact of Technology on Education, Work & Society. I will be using this blog to reflect, respond, share and collaborate with classmates throughout this course. But first, a little background on how I got to this point:

    Where to start? I am a Hoosier to it's truest form, having been born in Indiana. When I was 11, our family moved to Puerto Rico because of a promotion in my father's job. We lived there for 5 years and in that time I learned to speak Spanish almost fluently. When I was a junior in high school, we moved again, this time to New York. There I completed high school and then headed to the University of Vermont to pursue an education in elementary education. Straight out of college I got a job teaching in a little town in North Carolina. I loved teaching 1st grade for two years, but my heart was pulling me to Wilmington, North Carolina where I reconnected with a classmate from high school, who has been my husband the past three years. 

    While in Wilmington, I taught for 4 more years in various grades- 2nd, 3rd, 5th and then back to 3rd while majorly focusing on the use of technology in the classroom. After the 2010-2011 school year, my husband accepted a job offer to work with the Coast Guard in Virginia. For the past year, I have focused on being a stay at home mom after our son was born in November. It has had its challenges and has helped me realize that I really miss working in the classroom. As much fun as it has been being a stay at home mom, I made the decision to go back to work. 

     On the 10th, I will be heading back to work as a kindergarten teaching assistant. A huge change from being a full time classroom teacher. Eventually I would like to go back to being a classroom teacher, but for now, I get the benefits of being in the classroom, while still getting plenty of daylight time to enjoy my son without bringing work home with me and getting my Masters on top of that. Who wouldn't want that?

    I am excited about learning how to incorporate blogging into the classroom and sharing ideas with classmates. Hopefully I can run some ideas by the classroom teacher I will be working with and incorporate those ideas into creating a kindergarten friendly blogging experience.