Hello All!
My name is Gina Rios and I am a fifth grade teacher at Murphy Elementary in Haslett. I teach in a self-contained classroom which means I teach every subject area. Let me tell you there is not enough time in the day to do this, but I'm sure many of you feel the same way! I'm excited about beginning this program. Largely because my district makes providing technology a priority and I have many resources at my disposal as well as grant money available to try out new things. My only problem is that I find it very hard to incorporate technology based projects without the lesson taking forever and being a ton of extra work. Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to hard work. I wouldn't be a teacher if I was, but I feel like there has to be a way to seamlessly to do it and I think that becoming more tech savvy myself is a great way to start. Therefore, I'm looking forward to learning from all of you and from the class!
I will tatally agree with you about finding time to use all the technology that my district provides for me. Just about every teacher in my distric received smatrboards this year. a lot of teachers are having the same problem finding time to learn the smartboard technology plus redoing lessons to work with smart. I think you just need to pic a lesson that you fell would be easy to incorporat technology into it and go with it. Plus as you get more tech savy things will start coming together a lot eaiser.
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