Moving Forward

The end of the school year is coming quickly.  I'm excited about all of the things that my students and I have accomplished this past year.  I'm also happy that I will be able to slow down a bit and spend time reflecting on what changes I want to make for the upcoming school year.  In the fall, my classroom will become paperless and I am  even more excited than when I discovered that you could get different colors of "dittos" for the ditto machine back when I first started teaching.  I've gone from having a grade book that you calculated by hand to online grading that calculates everything for you.  I can't even count the number of hours I have spent throughout my career laying out all the pages of a test or packet in order, collecting them one by one, and then stapling.  Now our copy machines staple, punch, and collate.  Technology has changed our jobs. 

I now have a Qomo, a projector, a laptop computer, an iPad, and several digital cameras at my disposal.  I also have my own smartphone.  All of my students have a school issued computer.  Yes....It's time to keep moving forward.  I am going to spend the summer finding on-line resources.  It's the 21st Century folks!