My first official post!

Hi everyone,

So today I have had a LOT of fun setting up my blog for E-Learning. After a few hours of playing with backgrounds, layouts, fonts and piccies I am now writing my first official blog post EVER! :) yay!

If I look back to last week, the night before our first E-Learning tutorial to be exact, I was having similar emotional responses to this...

For me, working with ICT has always been a little daunting! Over time I have come to believe that working with digital technologies results in either:

1. Major frustration! (not being able to make something work...)

2. Major devastation! (...I lost a whole uni assignment once, need I say more!)

3. And on the rare occasion... Major success! (when you plan a lesson involving the interactive whiteboard, projector and a YouTube video and by some miracle IT ALL WORKS! Woo!)

I believe this course is going to change these predominantly resistant beliefs of mine though! The more I delve into this whole topic of teaching and learning in the digital world, the more I realise that my attitude and my lack of knowledge about ICT (perhaps more importantly, lack of desire to further my knowledge about ICT) will be the only things to blame if the children in my classroom are not provided with a digitally-rich learning environment.

Boy what a BIG responsibility we have to put whatever past experiences or feelings we have about working with ICT behind us and plough on to becoming confident users and teachers of digital technology in the classroom! As Wendy reminded us in our tute last week - if we aren't going to be the teachers who lead the way, then who will?

Can we do it fellow E-Learners? Yes we can! :)

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Image Acknowledgement:

Keep Calm - http://www.pixelrobot.com/blog/?m=200902

Fun to Do the Impossible - http://pinterest.com/alicenneverland/quotes/