My name is Kathy Jollit, and to be totally honest, I am feeling a little overwhelmed by all this technology that we are being introduced to in week 1! Is it just me? Setting up a twitter account...and now blogging-- ya'll bear with me- eventually I'll get the hang of it!
I am middle school science teacher in Gulf Shores, Alabama. This year I coached the 7th grade girls basketball team- and I now have a whole new respect for coaches! I am taking this course in order to renew my teaching certificate because I took a few years off from teaching while my daughter was little and my husband was in Iraq with the Army--- and now I am short on the required experience requirement for renewal. I specifically picked this course because I can really use some help with technology in education. At my school, every student has been issued a MacBook Air- our textbooks are online, our assignments (or a lot of them anyway) are online, everything in our district is moving toward digitalization-- which has been awesome and amazing, but it has also been really challenging-- so I am looking for any help I can get on ways to effectively integrate technology into my classroom!
On a personal note, I have been married to my college sweetheart for the last 10 years. We have one 5 year old daughter who keeps me crazy busy with all of her activities -- school, karate, dance, girl scouts, soccer-- we are expecting our second daughter on July 4-- so I'm excited and nervous about that! And rounding out the family we have a 100 lb mutt named Koa that loves long walks, naps, and pancakes!
I'm excited about learning new tricks for using technology in this class!
