#1 Introduction and Learning Goals

Hello! Welcome to my Response to Literature blog (FRIT 7234). My name is Kayla Metheny.  I have been teaching for three years, two years in second grade and one year as a tier 3 interventionist. I have a bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education and am currently working towards a Masters in Instructional Technology. I have previously had a 1:1 classroom with iPads. I felt as though I did an okay job teaching my students how to use the iPads and providing them with valuable apps and resources to help them learn. Looking back, I knew just a little, well, more like hardly any about technology capabilities in the classroom. In the upcoming school year I will have a 1:1 classroom with Chromebooks. I am very excited about this and the opportunities I can afford my students.

I have determined two learning goals that I would like to reach this summer:

 1) I would like to learn how to incorporate technology into my classroom with the use of effective and curated digital tools and resources. Previously, I just read reviews to determine how "effective" a tool or resource was. I am sure there is a more professional manner in which you can determine how effective and curated a digital tool and resource is.

2) I would like to learn a great deal about blogging. Just like the technology integrations, I know very little about blogs. I read teacher blogs regularly and it has been pressed in my mind for a while now that I would like to start my own teacher blog. Hopefully, after this course, I will know more about blogging and be able to start my own teaching blog.