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Wow! This has been a fantastic summer for me. For the past three days I have been in Charleston West Virginia for our annual West Virginia Career and Technical Education Conference. I learned a lot about our future in teaching and the direction that West Virginia and I imagine the rest of the country is heading toward achieving 21st Century learning.
Thanks to my technololgy technician Peggy Hensley, I at least knew some of the terminology used at the conference and the use of technology in the classroom and why and some ways to use it.
I have already written about David Warlick, the guru of using technology in the classroom, replying to one of my posts and my willingness to use his advice. Well, I had another first. Mark Prensky, the passionate advocate of using technolgy and phrase owner of the title of this post was our guest speaker. I got to hear him speak for two days. I also go to meet him and we had a nice conversation for about 5 minutes. He was a very nice person. He told us about using games and especially one called Typing of the Dead. It promotes keying accuracy and speed and the best part is that it is free online.
I can only say that for whatever reason, God wanted me to take my writing class, meet some very nice people, and expand my abilities of a teacher. HE actually guided me this summer.
I want to thank all the people at the conference for getting such nice speakers and especially my SI fellow members, Andi, Tracy, Mary, Angel, Judy, Debbie, Bob, Susan, Sharon, Debra and Tia. Without all of you my self discovery, enlightenment, self-esteem, and self confience would not be what it is today. God bless you every one.