0 A Bit About Becca

Technology has always been a huge part of my  life. I have had a computer and a printer in my home my entire life. I attended a small Catholic School in my hometown where I took computer technology classes from kindergarten to eighth grade. During this time my mother, who is a music and social studies teacher at the Catholic School I attended, received a donation of a Smart Board for her classroom. This went way past the standards of normal classroom technology. This technology made learning fun with the interaction with the lessons by drawing right on web pages or playing games on the screen. During my middle school years I received a prepaid cell phone, and then a real cellphone,  an MP3 player, and then an iPod, This gifts of technology were amazing because they were completely mine to learn and play with and progressively became more advanced.

I finally received my first real cellphone in seventh grade, and an iPhone in ninth, where I could start texting and calling my friends and with an iPhone I could have the functions of an iPod as well as a cellphone. During my high school years I was very active in TV Production where I used cameras, computers, editing software, microphones, etc. The best piece of technology I received was a Macbook Air in eleventh grade. I could work on homework like a computer, contact friends like a cellphone, and have fun playing games and listening to music like an iPod all in one tool which belongs completely to me. I have been blessed in my life to have always had access to the latest technology to help me learn and improve myself.

In this class I hope to learn to apply my love for technology in a classroom setting. I want to give my future students the same opportunities to learn with technology and inspire an interest in them. I hope to hone my own skills and pick up pieces of information that I may have missed learning in previous classes. The sad truth is many people do not have easy access to technology in their homes. When these students come to school in my classroom or in other classrooms I hope to have them receive the gift of technology and the resources to succeed.

I learned today that my learning style personality is Reflective-Intuitive-Visual-Sequential. Being reflective means I prefer to work alone and think quietly about facts or ideas before I apply them. Being intuitive means I work fast, I am innovative, I am abstract in my thinking, and I enjoy new possibilities and relationships. Being a visual learner means I thrive with pictures, diagram, charts, timelines, films, demonstrations, etc. Finally I am a sequential learner where I learn things in linear steps progressing off of the step learned before. Knowing this about myself will give me the tools I need to thrive in all classroom settings