I'm supposed to blog about my vision about educational technology is and I'm sure I have one! Guess I'd better start thinking! My purpose and expectations of this class is to learn what I need to learn to be a librarian. That probably sounds terrible but and its not completely true. I also want to learn more about computing and new things about the computer and how to use it. I just get tired of being so stupid about it! I'm obtaining my degree for several reasons. One because it is one of my goals to be the first person in my family with a master's degree (I want one, too!), next you need higher and higher degrees in the workplace to be able to get jobs, and you need a master's degree to be a librarian, which is what I am going to be if I ever get out of school!

My current goals are to finish school and do a good job for my employer. My long term goals are to use my degree to get a job as a librarian at a public school and enjoy my job. My educational technology philosophy--this is a hard one because I never feel like I have "philosophies" about things--I do, I'm sure-- I just don't feel like it. Let's try. I believe that technology belongs in schools. There are so many great things students can learn from computers that it would be a travesty for schools not to have computers. Much of the learning today comes from computers and is facilitated by teachers. The problem is teachers don't really know how to ues these computers to the best of their ability so it has become drill and kill on lots of things. I think the teachers need to be taught how to use these computers in their classrooms or in a lab and having the technology would be much better used. However, this said, just having the computers is a step in the right direction. Allowing those students who are computer savy to "Play" on them, supervised of course" you may find out some useful things and some ways to have some lessons on them yourself. My vision, put in a nutshell, is, "Educational/instructional technology supports instruction and student in schools." I used the following articles

Ausband, Leigh T., Instructional Technology Specialists and Curriculum Work, Fall 2006, 39,1,1-21.

Brill,Jennifer M., Galloway, Chad. Perils and promises: University instructors' integration of technology in classroom-based practices. British Journal of Educational Technology, Jan2007, 38,1,95-105,11.

I'm supposed to list some TSDs which is hard because I don't know what all computers can do, but for one thing:

I want to learn how to cut the heads off people and put them on someone else!
I want to learn Microsoft Work better.
I want to learn spreadsheets better.
I want to be able to read instructions from a teacher and be able to do the things he/she says to do on the computer without panicing.
I want to learn desktop publishing.

Well, I'm in no shape to share any technological skills, but the reason I want to learn these is because some of them are fun (the head, the publishing) but the majority of these I need for employment and my personal life.