I would consider my biggest strength in technology is my openness and willingness to learn to incorporate it into my teaching. I am very interested in learning about new technology as it becomes available, whether hardware or software. I find much of it fascinating, if not addictive, and when I learn something new I am eager to share that knowledge with teammates and students alike. I believe that our students will need all the exposure to technology they can get in order to achieve in today’s highly competitive society.
My greatest weakness would be that I learn by doing, so learning to use a new piece of equipment or a new software program in time consuming. I often am just getting started and excited about new technology, when my time to explore runs out. It takes me so long to learn what a program can and can’t do, and how to make it do what I think it should, that I often never get skilled enough to present it to my students. I get so involved with trying out everything in the program to see how it works, I simply run out of time and the next project pops up. Then, because I didn’t master the new learning, it just gets shuffled aside and I never even introduce it to students much less learn to use it properly myself.
I plan to address this problem of time by paying attention more closely in introductory classes and recording notes so I can practice on my own. I will try to be more organized and cognizant of what I spend my time doing so that I actually plan to use what I learned in the classroom, instead of waiting until I "know it all"
