Growing

In 2017, my husband was presented with a wonderful oprotunity to move across the country and take a new job. With that move came a new job for me as well. I have gone from being an elementary librarian to being an Instructional Technology/Reference Librarian in the Philadelphia area. With this new job came new responsiblities and I have enjoyed my work so much. Earlier this year, I taught my first college level course. It was exciting and frightening at the same time. The library was tasked with redesigning our traditional, full semester Research course into a half-semester hybrid course. I taught our first offering and it was wonderful. Over the summer of 2018, I was approached by the education department to teach their EdTech course for the Spring of 2019. I was excited as this is an area of real passion for me. I am excited to embarq on this journey and continue to grow in my knowledge and experience.

As I continue to grow in my new job, I will be teaching Technology in the Classroom for our Education Department this semester. To help me grow in this new role, I am participating in ISTE’s EdTech coaches Book Study. I am hoping to gain a deeper understanding of how EdTech coaches can help support teachers in developing lessons to integrate technology on a deeper level in their classrooms. In working with preservice teachers, I hope to help them build these skill befroe they enter the classroom so that technology integration is not an afterthought or included just meet some requirement.

I plan to blog about my experiences, insights and questions as I complete this book study and teach this class this semster. I hope to get back into reviewing more edtech resources, as well. I will post reflections of material covered in the assigned chapters as I read them according to our chat calendar, as well as my thougths on the chat and any interesting insights that I gain. I am hoping that this will allow for a deeper reflection of the information on my part and will transfer into how I approach the class.

The book we are reading is Learning Supercharged: Digital Age Strategies and Insights from the Edtech Frontier by Lynne Schrum with Sandi Sumerfield. The chat begins next week with introductions and reflections on the forward and introduction.