First blog goes up, then what happens radio silence. I am back as part of my Know-vember resolutions for the remainder of this year and beyond a challenge has been laid...to learn, master, comfortably familiarize myself with a new technology tool, software, etc that can be incorporated into both my teaching and personal lives.
Now why would I be so foolish as to jump into that fire during the school year? Part of it has to do with the great reading from Twitter about the need for teachers to model the learning process to our students. I believe that in the past year I have been doing an adequate job of this, but have plenty of room for improvement. As one of the "resident instructional tech users" in my building there are often a number of questions that come my way about various programs and tools...many that I have heard of and would like to learn more about and potentially use. Instead of going for quantity over quality I have decided to streamline the use of technology by demanding that I focus on learning one new each month and adopting it into instructional practices to determine its value/role in my classroom.
Therefore to kick off Know-vember I am going to be working on getting better with my use of Evernote. I have used this program infrequently and have seen a variety of other blogs about its capabilities and uses. This is month of one of a self-reflection project, if anyone has help with Evernote and suggestions for other tools to consider pursuing please drop me a line.
