I
have always loved technology. I remember in 1988, leaving Orange county
to attend college at SDSU with a car-full of clothes and my first
Macintosh: an original 128K desktop and a dot-matrix printer.
When I started teaching, I always joined technology programs offered by
my district, the first being "Digital University," where, with 30 hours
of training, I brought to my classroom a Macintosh G3 All-in-One--
a huge 70 lb. monster. Marrying my curriculum with technology has been
a labor of love. When I started, it was simply a matter of using
programs like Appleworks
to work on the design and aesthetics. Technology has continually
progressed, and I have continued to augment my teaching using
everything from Powerpoint, Avid Cinema,
Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and iMovie in terms of
software, and a growing collection of hardware, like LCD projectors, ELMO's,
and MacBook Pros! SDSU's EDTEC COMET Program offered the ideal marriage
to bolster my ability to teach: knowledge of educational theory and
instructional design and development merged with complementary
technology. This portfolio highlights both what I've learned and what
I've created while in the program-- and the basis of what promises to
be a new adventure in my career as a high school teacher.
