Teaching Technology

I began working with computers back in the 1970s where I was a computer operator on huge DEC mainframe machines and Basic4 mini computers (which were a lot bigger than today’s computers and a lot less powerful). I taught myself to program and spent years writing accounting, property management & construction software. After my youngest daughter was born I became a stay at home mom and started creating web sites – first just for me and then I began creating sites for other people that I knew. This was more for fun than for profit. I still have some web sites that I maintain on an on-going basis.

In the summer of 2007, the Computer Teacher at my youngest daughter’s school left and I agreed to take over the computer class – at least until December. Here it is a two years later and I’m now officially a 3rd year computer teacher. Creating a curriculum for Kindergarten through 8th grade had been both a fun and frustrating experience. I’ve learned a lot and hopefully my students did too.

This blog is my attempt to reflect on the things that work – and don’t work – in the lab. I know when I first took the job as the computer teacher I spent hours searching for information on teaching computers to K-8. My hope is that my experiences might help someone else who’s just starting out as a computer teacher in an elementary and/or middle school environment.

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