C4T Assignment

Henrietta Miller was the teacher that I was assigned to. In her post titled ACEC2010 to ACEC2012 (Australian Computers Education Conference) Mrs. Miller talks about how she heard of this conference via Twitter, and she then talked to her fellow co-workers and principal about raising money for her to go to the conference. While attending the conference Mrs. Miller had the opportunity to hear from great Australian educators such as Adrian Bruce and Steve Collis. What Mrs.Miller brought back with her from attending the conference was inspirational, Inspiration to be a better teacher then the year before. She wanted to continue growing as a teacher and finding new and improved ways of teaching. While at dinner one night with fellow educators and the conference, Mrs. Miller discussed using PLN and other technologies in her class to improve her students creativity in learning. Mrs.Miller was asked by one of the speakers at the conference to get up on stage and share the many things that she has learned with fellow educators and she accepted. Mrs. Miller was nervous at first and then realized that there were so many teachers new to such technologies just like her, and she thought if they could do it, so could she.

This week while returning to Mrs. Millers' blog "Classroom Chronicles" The latest post on her page was titled Reflections from ACEC2012.Mrs.Miller talks about the things that she will walk away from the conference. Mrs.Miller learned that the Alice Program was created with girls in mind. Alice purpose was to inspire girls to learn more about programming. According to Mrs.Miller the Alice program is challenging and well worth exploring, and I for one, plan to look more into the Alice program for myself. Students of today are learning in more efficient ways then those of earlier generations. Being able to communicate and share your ideas and stories with people from around the world is a very powerful tool in education. Global communication allows students to be more sociable without even leaving the classroom.