My students and I both agree, I'm an email junkie. I have at least 5 email account, 3 of which I check multiple times in a day. Why 3 separate accounts? I like to keep my in-boxes organized. One email is strictly for my teaching at St. Patrick. I receive a minimum of 20 emails a day from parents, students, the administration, and other faculty members. My personal email is for my communication with UofL, my family and other business related issues. Finally, the third email I check is my social email. This address I have set up with websites like Facebook and Myspace and many of my friend reach me at this email as well. My other accounts (including my UofL unfortunately) is strictly spam mail. From this brief description of my email endeavors, it is apparent my experience as a computer user is frequent and somewhat in-depth when it comes to software and the internet. (not hardware!)
As far as computer usage in the classroom... it is imperative! The culture of our students is heavily influenced by the Internet. I believe students also need to experience this in the classroom not only to enhance computer skills but to expose our students to the same venues in a professional/educational manner. Recently, I have proposed the idea of a blog to my administration. It has been a lot of research, time and collaboration on my part but I feel it is worth the work. We have yet to agree on a specific site for blogs/discussion boards but I am adamant about making sure this happens. We have researched different sites such as gaggle.net and nicenet.org (if you have any others that would be appropriate for middle school students please let me know!)
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