The Beginning of a Reflective Blog!

The aim of this blog is to assess the use of various ICT applications as teaching aids. I am a student teacher and I am keen to sample all of the new and exciting applications in the world of technology, to see if they can actually make a difference to teaching and learning. The blog will be reflective in nature. As a teacher, writing reflectively is essential because it is a way to evaluate what has been done, to see what can be done to improve further. Over the next few weeks, I will be trying a number of different applications to see if they could be used to aid my teaching. I will reflectively evaluate the applications, and I will finally decide which applications I will use when I return to the classroom. I am surprisingly excited to use some different apps, although a little nervous as I don't see myself as being completely confident with ICT, but I'm hoping that can change! I hope that by the end of this term, I will be able to confidently use a number of new apps as teaching aids, and be able to make my lessons a lot more interesting and engaging. I'm feeling very optimistic and excited to play around with technology to see what it can do! Feel free to follow my journey from a clueless student to a high-tech computer geek! Okay, maybe that's a bit too dramatic. Watch this space!