School's Out For Summer! (Read this in Alice Cooper's voice)

My first year as a Student Technology Integrationist has come to an end. I learned so much and had the pleasure to work with so many wonderful people with fantastic ideas! I had never worked much with iPads prior to this since I was primarily focused on Data Management and Analysis before, so being thrust into the world of Educational Technology in a school setting after finishing a Masters program has been so exciting.

I feel like I really have filled a toolbox with strategies in teching up lessons, app smashing, using alternative assessments like movies or storytelling, various apps, different digital citizenship lessons and how to integrate them into already existing lessons. So many things! I look forward to writing more about them over the summer.

Moving forward, I am learning and experiencing the adoption of a new Mobile Device Management system (we decided to go with Airwatch) and how that process plays out. I am enrolling in an online Tinkering course and looking for a Design Thinking course since I will be involved in the new Makerspace Studio next year. This summer I will be attending a couple conferences: iTeach and High Tech High Summer Institute. At iTeach, my team and I will be focusing on how to build more of a self-regulated learning culture and what strategies make up a self regulated learner. Exploring the differences between self directed learning and self regulated learning. I am excited. I feel like I took this year off from school and really was just trying to get used to the new environment I was entrenched in at my new school, but I am ready to move forward and continue my life-long learning journey.


Oh and I got engaged :) Life is great.