About Me

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For starters, my name is Danielle. I consider myself a newbie teacher, and when I was in University, I specialized in Pre-K to 3.   I love that age of children, especially how they learn. I have 5 people in my family including myself, my husband Jon, and then my dad, mom, and my older sister. I teach piano lessons out of my home on my 52″ Pramberger professional upright, and I love to sing and play piano.  I teach an elementary cheerleading team out of a dance studio, and I go to an Acts 29 church in Regina.

My attitude toward computers is changing. My elementary and high school days were not loaded with educational technology, but rather msn. That is one area of computers that I seemed to have mastered.  I find that in a lot of situations such as school and work, computers are only used for the basic “installed” programs. I love the idea of changing this and bringing a new level of educational technology into schools- this includes Twitter, Facebook, cell phones, SMART boards, blogs, Glogs and many many other tools.

I am scared for teachers (including myself) who cannot keep up to their computer-genius students. I think it is vital that teachers from K-12 know how to embrace the new and changing technology, and use it in their classrooms. As exciting and fresh as the new technology is, I also think that it takes a lot of work to stay up on things. I think the school board needs to give teachers opportunities to continue learning about new educational technology. I also think that teachers need to learn how to monitor cyber-bullying that could potentially happen in the classroom. As long as teachers keep their technological knowledge current and updated, they can provide a productive classroom environment that uses technology.

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