Course+Expectations_TH


 * Course Expectations, Fall 2012: Thursday Class**

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 * What are your expectations for this course? What do you want and/or need to get out of it? What are you anxious about? What are you excited about? Share your thoughts below by adding additional bullet points. //There is no need to identify your comments with your name.// **


 * Add your thoughts here to this list. You are not limited to only one bullet point. There is no need to add your name. **
 * ...I am hoping to learn new, quick and convenient ways of incorporating technology in the classroom.
 * ...I am hoping to learn how to use technology to improve my learning and the learning of my students.
 * ...I am nervous about remembering everything that I have learned!
 * ...I'd like to learn practical ways to make technology relevant and meaningful in the classroom.
 * ...I'm anxious about 'messing up' this Wiki while editing!
 * ...I would like to become more knowledgeable about using Macs - which won't be difficult as I've never used them!
 * ...I expect to learn from my classmates as well - surely there's a good knowledge/skills base already in the class.
 * ...I would like to learn new technology that I can incorporate into the math classroom
 * ...I am excited to be learning new technology and blogging that can help advance my professional career
 * ...I hope that classmates can add onto ideas on how to incorporate the different technology learned into many different classroom settings
 * ...I am anxious about all the different assignments that we have to do and lacking creativeness, which I struggle with
 * ...I hope to learn useful skills that I will be able to incorporate into an elementary school classroom.
 * ...I am looking forward to learning how technology can help to enhance a classroom curriculum.
 * ...I am hoping to learn not only about what some of these new technologies are, but how I can use them in lessons and hopefully in a variety of different ways
 * ...I am hoping to learn from my peers about what technologies they have used in the classroom and how they worked for them
 * ... I am hoping to learn about new technology and how to apply it in the classroom
 * ... I am hoping to become more comfortable with technology
 * ... I am hoping to develop a set of technology themed resources to use in my elementary level classroom.
 * ... I am anxious about keeping track of and participating on the multiple websites that are connected to the coursework.