On an adventure!
At the beginning of every family vacation we took, my mom would always look back at us as we were driving away and say, "Well guys, we're off an an adventure!" It was cheesy, but we couldn't ever disagree. And an adventure we would have. As I close out this school year and look forward to the next, I have to tell myself that I'm off on an adventure. After 5 years of teaching in middle school, and 7 years of teaching technology, I now have a job I have applied for more times than I have fingers and toes: ed tech coach. My official title is STEM Instructional Technology Specialist, but if I had my choice (and maybe I'll call myself this anyway :-)) Technology Integration Collaborator. Hence the name of the blog. I've been in the classroom long enough to know that the terms "coach" and "specialist" among others can come off as being "better than" or I "know more than you" and so on, and I want to avoid that. I wa...