Technology Use Day to Day

            I use technology quite often each day. I use two laptops, a personal one and work one, a smartphone, a tablet, and a Promethean Board. I use my work laptop to keep up with my graduate classes, post grades for the classes I teach, communicate with my students’ parents, and prepare my lesson plans. The programs that my school uses for communicating with parents and students and posting grades are Gradequick and Edline.  On my personal computer, smartphone, and tablet I use social networks to keep up with my friends and family that are out of town. I use my Promethean Board on a daily basis to give notes to my students and to play the daily video announcements. I also use Ipads on occasion to assist me with teaching a particular subject.

            I appreciate being able to use technology on many different tools. I am able to continue my job as a high school math teacher and take classes because of technology. I can also communicate with students and their parents frequently through technology. I send weekly emails to my students’ parents to keep them up to date on what goes inside of the classroom. Because I have the ability to post grades and communicate with parents and students easily on my computer or smartphone, it is sometimes difficult to separate home time and school time. I can easily become distracted on social networking sites instead of the doing the graduate work that I need to on my computer. The important thing with technology is to set boundaries and goals to be sure that family time is not infringed upon and that work is productive.