Introductory Post

I am from Fairmont, West Virginia, and I am teacher at a local middle school right down the road from where I live. I teach Library Skills to 5th and 6th grade. I am also the Student Council adviser, Yearbook adviser, and Girls' Basketball coach at my school.

I want to able to be an asset at my school when it comes to implementing new technologies into our curriculum. I am hoping that this class will help me succeed in this goal. I want to learn about different new media age strategies that could help my students be more productive 21st century learners.

I have already declared Digital Media, New Literacies, & Learning as my degree. So far, I have completed the following courses:

ONLR 6808 Tech Tools in Learning
ONLR 6804 Copyright Issues for Online Digital Media Enhanced Instruction EDUC 6814 Game Design and Learning I found this video/commercial on literacy, and I absolutely fell in love with it, so I had to share. I also wanted to share this video poking fun at literacy and digital media. As a teacher/librarian, teaching students to use digital media responsibly and ethically are extremely important.