Week 1, Post 2

My name is Lacey Glasford and I am Social Studies teacher at Nebraska City High School.  I am currently teaching World Cultures and a History & Cinema class.  I am also the Student Council sponsor as well.  For two years, I attended college at Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, Missouri.  For my last three years, I finished college at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.  

I think that since I'm a fairly young teacher (so to speak!), I'm more technologically savvy than some of my fellow colleagues.  Through many of my grad classes, I've acquired more multimedia skills that I ever thought that I would.  I use an LCD projector to give notes to my students.  I use a lot of Internet websites for my History & Cinema class as well.  As soon as I am finished with my graduate program, I plan on implementing the skills that I have acquired into my classroom.  I will definitely have time for it then!  I have three Macs at home, so I am definitely a Mac user.  We also use them at school as well.  I am currently using Microsoft Office 2007, which is also what we have at school.  

With my degree in Curriculum and Instruction, I plan (and hope) to do a lot of things with it.  I've learned so much so far, that I almost feel a bit overwhelmed with all of the knowledge that I have acquired so far.  I think that when it's all over and done, I can take the time to put all of this information together so that I can use everything that I've learned in my classroom.  I definitely plan on using the information that I've learned from my technology classes.  Students are really into technology, and I feel that I can reach them on a different level by using technology in the classroom.