Week 1: Introduction

Welcome to my Blog for ED632.

My name is David Little and I teach Industrial Technology at Wasilla Middle School. This position is a change which came mid-year after teaching Computer Technology at the same location for nearly 5 years. I previously was the Assistive Technology/Augmentative Communication Specialist for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, and I also taught Drafting courses at Jamestown High School in Jamestown, New York prior to moving to Alaska.

I graduated from the California University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelors Degree in Technology Education and am currently working on my Masters Degree in Educational Technology through the University of Alaska Southeast. My future educational goal is to attend the University at Buffalo for a certification in Assitive Technology.

Although I have already taken ED693 (Emerging Internet Technologies) and some of the material will be review, there are several things I am looking forward to in this class. First, I am interested in learning about new resources that can be used in the classroom. I am always trying to improve the amount of available communication between myself and my students and the Internet offers many new opportunities. Another thing I am looking forward to learning is how to incorperate these resources effectively. Eventhough I have attempted to use Internet resources I feel that I am not using them as effectively as I could. And finally, the school distict I work in uses eccessive Internet filtering, limiting the use of many resources. This has limited the amount of Web-based resources severely.