#10: Data Collection, Most Interesting Blog Topics, Tech Related Skills, and Ways to Achieve My Future Technology Goals!!

As a Kindergarten teacher, I would most likely want to use data collection to get information and feedback from parents. To do this, I would probably use a tool like SurveyMonkey and give the parents a link to the surveys I conduct. I would ask them questions like, "How much do you read to your child at home?" or "How well does your child know the alphabet?" and then have them choose from answers that range from really well to really poor. I could also use surveys to get parents' opinions on what we do in the classroom and where there kids would like to go on field trips. I think using SurveyMonkey in this manner would be really beneficial to my students.

I found many things interesting when reviewing my classmates' blogs. What I loved most about reading them was getting different perspectives on each topic presented which opened my eyes to others' opinions and I got to see different uses of creativity in my classmates' web layouts and design techniques. A lot of people had really cool backgrounds and fonts on their blogs which made it easy to read!! I loved looking at screenshots and PowerPoints from the different assignments too.

I would really love to learn more about how to use ClassDojo because I think that is a tool I might consider using in my classroom for classroom management. I have seen many teachers at FSUS Elementary use it as a tool and it looks easy to use but I want to learn how to set it up, how it works, and if students can check their progress from home or only at school and how all of that works. When I observed teachers who use it, their students respond really well to it. One more thing I want to be more efficient in is PowerPoint making. I want to learn more about the design options and I want to get faster at using it.

I want to go about achieving my technology goals with a hands on approach, where I'm learning the technology by physically using it. I want to get more efficient at using a Smartboard better, so I want to go play around with it and learn its features in the Tech Sandbox. I also think the more you work at something, the better you get at it, so I want to use PowerPoint more frequently for future projects, and just for fun, to get better at it. I also want to blog more in the future to stay connected with the world of education by means of social media and to become a better writer, which is a key skill to have as any type of teacher.