Today in professional development you hopefully learned a few new tools and websites to help you initiate video conferencing into your classroom curriculum. Reflect on today and answer the following questions by responding in a comment below.

1. Today we talked about Skype, Distancing Learning, Google Hangouts and Face Time, which of these video conference mediums are you most comfortable with and the most likely to implement in your classroom? Why?

2. Can you already think of how you are going to implement video conferencing into your curriculum? Please elaborate. 

3. Is there anything you would like to know more about?

Digital Leadership Academy Chapter Review
Chapter 9: Increasing Student Engagement and Enhancing Learning
Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times
By: Eric Sheninger

Though this is only my third year in education I have caught on to the patterns in this ever changing career. Every year there will be new students with different needs, every year there will be change in our curriculum, ever year there will be some kind of "new" exciting tool that will fix all of our problems as educators and every August we know that there will be change again and we will survive. As I step into my new position I have realized there are some teachers that accept the yearly changes and some that struggle.

A teacher may teach the same grade and subject every year but it is highly unlikely they are teaching the same students. As educators we have to prepare our students for the careers that will be available to them in their future, and the tool that students must be well educated to use is digital technology. We have to prepare students to be self paced learners, collaborative scholars, global learners, reflective individuals and  digital citizens.Technology is the medium that educators must use to engage their students in the learning process in order to achieve success.

Today in professional development you hopefully learned a few new apps and websites to help expand your classroom audiobook library and our districts. Reflect on today and answer the following questions by responding in a comment below.