Hello World!!

Hello there. My name is Christie Jennings and I am a Michigan State University Teacher Candidate and I will be graduating this coming May. I will be student teaching in the Fall so I’m taking in all that I can right now, so that I actually feel ready to be out in the world teaching. I’m super excited to get into the classroom more. I love children and learning, so teaching of course is my passion and something I love to do. I have so many great ideas for lessons, incorporating technology as well as music, another one of my passions.

My technology background is pretty good. I’ve been working with computers since I was very young. My parents owned a print shop, so they always had the up and coming technologies that involved printing text, photos, etc. I learned a lot from my dad and mom about technology. I have taught myself everything else that I know. I really enjoy making PowerPoints or movies and just experimenting with those types of programs. Excel, word, and the other Microsoft programs are a piece of cake for me. I also know many online programs such as managing ANGEL, Scheduler, Database, and other things that I’ve learned from my work at West Circle Culinary Services HR Office.
I’m taking a CEP 416 class right now that has to do with using technology in the classroom and I hope that I will learn a lot of new ways to bring technology to my students. Learning about different ways to tweak lessons to make them technological will be a great boost to my teaching methods/strategies. I have already learned a lot about twitter, website making, blogging, and other cool things I had never even thought of using in a classroom. Here’s to a great last semester of classes.