Welcome to my blog.
I can't believe I have a blog. I thought blogs were only used by people with too much time on their hands or something significant to say (I don't have either). How wrong I must have been.
My name is Laurel Newton and I currently teach in an open Kindergarten classroom with 52 children. I am also part of my school's executive as the eLearner. My education journey started 12 years ago when I was a teacher's aide. I was encouraged to go to Uni and as a mature aged student and I successfully completed my degree and graduated at the youthful age of 40.
I was motivated to do my Masters of IT as I started in the role of eLearner without much of a clue (still don't have much of a clue probably). I always used the IT available to me in my classroom to the best of my ability and the eLearner job just landed in my lap.
I live on the beautiful north coast of NSW in a village called Alstonville.
I am keen to explore technologies that have a practical application in the classroom. My classroom has small netbooks, tablets, Chromebooks as well as an interactive whiteboard so we are often looking for apps or web based games as an alternative to hands on activities in our group activities.
I can't believe I have a blog. I thought blogs were only used by people with too much time on their hands or something significant to say (I don't have either). How wrong I must have been.
My name is Laurel Newton and I currently teach in an open Kindergarten classroom with 52 children. I am also part of my school's executive as the eLearner. My education journey started 12 years ago when I was a teacher's aide. I was encouraged to go to Uni and as a mature aged student and I successfully completed my degree and graduated at the youthful age of 40.
I was motivated to do my Masters of IT as I started in the role of eLearner without much of a clue (still don't have much of a clue probably). I always used the IT available to me in my classroom to the best of my ability and the eLearner job just landed in my lap.
I live on the beautiful north coast of NSW in a village called Alstonville.
I am keen to explore technologies that have a practical application in the classroom. My classroom has small netbooks, tablets, Chromebooks as well as an interactive whiteboard so we are often looking for apps or web based games as an alternative to hands on activities in our group activities.
Hi Laurel. Welcome to the world of blogging - you've made a great start! My biggest problem with blogs is that I'm keen for a while, then I get slower and slower at adding new posts. Hopefully doing this for a subject will motivate me.
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Leanne
Hi Laurel. Welcome to the world of blogging - you've made a great start! My biggest problem with blogs is that I'm keen for a while, then I get slower and slower at adding new posts. Hopefully doing this for a subject will motivate me.
ReplyDeleteI love this background - very cheerful and happy!
Leanne
Thanks Leanne for the feedback
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