Tech+Cohort+Wikispace

Tech Cohort Wikispace Reflection:

I attended E-Tech 2011 in Columbus this year with a few colleagues. We are all interested in learning how to incoporate technology into our school, and are looking for ideas on technologies to purchase. To help organize all that we learned from the various sessions and presentations, I set up a Wikispace and gave everyone who attended E-Tech a page to edit.

I realized that, in exploring free web-tools such as wikispaces, I can help fill needs for the WCSCC's staff. In this case, I was able to keep our new technology cohort organized. I also discovered that my fellow E-Tech attendees were appreciative that I was able to set up a place for everyone to share their work. We were able to use the Tech Cohort Wikispace to present to the rest of the committee (those who did not attend E-Tech), everything we learned and discovered at the conference.

I plan on taking more leadership roles in the technology cohort. I would like to write technology grants to help our school become more technologically advanced, and I'd also like to influence what technologies we decide to buy. I'm hoping that, eventually, I can become a technology resource director of sorts and help other teachers learn how to implement technology.