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__Enhancing Core Teaching Skills with Technology__

__About Me__
 My name is Kerry Dunn, and I am the Spanish teacher at the Northern Potter High School in Ulysses, PA. I am taking the Enhancing Core Teaching Skills with Technology because I believe that we need to better prepare our students for the future. The most significant manner of doing so is by utilizing technology.  Introduction to my ePortfolio

This ePortfolio has been compiled as a representative of my work completed for the Core Technology class. This portfolio contains many samples of my work that I have tried my best to complete but will continue to upgrade long past the due date. I have put so much effort into completing the assignments and tasks put to us that I want to share my acommplishments with other teachers. This portfolio is just the beginning of a great future for myself and my students. I can see myself creating such artifacts for future classes as well as having my students do the same.

My integration plan is a compilation of incorporating the various skills that I have learned using technology and utilizing them to design a unit lesson. Again, although I have completed the assignment, I know that I will be revising it in the future. It has been a learning experience that will compare to none! It amazes me that just a few years ago we were designing curriculum maps and unit plans, and the most advanced tool we were using was word processing! That is obviously past practice now! My unit plans will never be the same again!

My achievement of the NETS standards for teachers seems almost surreal. I have completed the class but with all that I have learned I do not feel ready to be categorized as such! This achievement does make me an ambasador of technology thus giving me a tremendous responsibility to my school. No longer will I leave the "tech issues" up to the technology coordinator alone. I now have a voice based in experiences that have made me an invaluable source to faculty and students alike. =My goals = I have two goals to strive towards upon completion of this class. I plan to use technology everyday in my classroom to better prepare my students for a challenging world so that when they are ready to enter the workforce they are able to “hit the ground running.”

First, I hope that by using technology now my students will be better prepared to navigate their way through the new technologies that will certainly surface in their careers and lives. Secondly, their experiences with the technologies that I expose them to will give them more opportunities to speak Spanish fluently and understand the various Hispanic cultures that exist. By using the internet they will be able to use sites such as Skype, LiveMocha, and ePals to communicate with native Spanish speakers from around the world.