The Adventure Begins!

On January 22, 2014 I attended my first Social Studies Methods Course. Even though I have only had one class session so far, I can tell that it is going to be a lot of work and to be honest, I am already feeling overwhelmed. I just hope that I can keep up with the workload. However, I am excited about working with the Bishop Dunn students and learning about different types of technology to create lesson plans on. I am not really good with technology, and I am hoping that this class will teach me about how to use it in a classroom. We already got assigned a project, but it was a lot of fun to do. Every person in the class had to pick a different technological site to use and introduce themselves. As I was completing the assignment, I actually forgot I was doing homework. This project taught me that technology can be integrated in a lot of different ways. The technological site I used to introduce myself was Thinglink. This is an interactive site that allows you to post pictures of anything you want and then you can explain what the pictures mean. For each picture you can choose a different icon, which I had a lot of fun playing around with! I got to incorporate many pictures when I introduced myself, either taking photos from Facebook or the web. Here is the link to my project below:

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/482994533794054145

As I continue through this class, I hope that I learn a lot about how to use technology when teaching lessons and I hope I learn how to use social studies in order to teach students. I am looking forward to fieldwork during the next couple of weeks, but I am nervous too! This is the first semester where I have to teach a whole class. While it is an overwhelming feeling, I am excited as well. This will be a great experience!

Time for the Adventure to begin!Here are a few motivational words to end with!