About Me

How have I changed by this class?               From week 1 until now I feel I have learned so much and can bring so many tech tools into my classroom when the time comes. Before starting the class, I really didn't have any expectations or well I really didn't know what to expect. Okay, actually that's a lie I did expect that our teacher was a crazy person...she said she has never had a cup of coffee. So, immediately I think what is wrong with this woman? And then in class, she tells us she hasn't had sweets in an outrageous amount of time, and then my feelings were validated...our teacher is crazy!               Just kidding, she's great...she has made learning not feel like learning and I have truly enjoyed every second of her class and I am sad that it is coming to an end. Not just on the tech side of things do I feel like I have learned a lot, but just overall as a whole how I would like to conduct m...

         As I sit here thinking about this past year as we are in November now and realizing 2017 is coming to an end. I can't believe all that has happened in just one short year. In so many ways, I am a totally different person because my life has changed so much.         At the beginning of this year, I experienced heartache like never before with the loss of my Nana. Now, unfortunately, we had been losing her for quite some time due to dementia, but for my whole life, she was there every single day. Growing up my mom worked so my grandma was the one who would get me ready for school, pick me up and make me dinner. She truly was a second mom. In 2010, after being put on oxygen and suffering from dementia we slowly saw her slip away. We would see glimpses of who she used to be, come through here and there but it got to be very hard for a very long time. My mom (the strongest woman I know) refused to ever put my grandma into a nursing home...