After-thoughts about the Conference

The more I think about the D.A.T.E conference, the more I realize how aprehensive I am about technology. As great as the conference was, it was a huge eye opener for me which has made me pretty vulnerable. The session that I enjoyed and learned the most from was Dealing in the Digital because everything that we have been reading in our texts and discussing in class finally all came together.

Here we are in a technology class where we are learning, using, and teaching each other the many sources that teachers are using in classrooms today. Has it really hit us that we will be those teachers one day? That we will be demonstrating to a room of 30 students just how to use these tools and how to incorporate our lessons into these tools? Throughout the session I kept thinking about Will Richardson's text and realizing the importance of practicing on how to use RSS Feeds, why and how blogging is useful and important in a classroom, why we as teachers need to be totally alert while our students are surfing on the web, the significance of Wikis and so much more.

All of the reading in our texts totally corresponded with what I learned during that session, plus I was given more websites to check out and use in a classroom.

It is true now more than ever, we are all publishers, artists, writers, and proudly, teachers.