What I hope to get out of this course....

The most shallow, but still accurate, response to this prompt is graduate credits that I can apply toward recertification the next time that process rolls around. Those credits may help shift me 1 column over on the pay scale as well, but that wasn't a primary motivation for taking this course.
I want:
- to gain awareness of how students are using, or could be using information technology in their daily lives to assist them with school, communication and socializing.
- to learn how to search and vet websites more efficiently and effectively. This is something that will help me with time saving but also is something we need to teach our students so they can save time and do better quality work as well.
- to develop and enhance skills to utilize more of what our facilities make available.
- to engage students in work that reflects their reality more closely.
- be motivated to try some new things with students in my classes. I never feel like I have stagnated. I always think I am moving forward and making changes and improvements. But, maybe not as fast some others around me. And maybe, my feelings don't reflect other's perceptions of my work.

I was intrigued by the idea of disruptive innovation presented by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, in their blog Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education Is the Future
How radical innovation will change the way we teach and kids learn.
Maybe by utilizing IT in the classroom, maybe my lessons will not be as polished as what I have been doing in the past. But maybe they will appeal to some students that were not buying into what I have been doing. Maybe it is a new approach that will appeal to those that have had less success with my usual pedogogy.
Now, let's see where this goes....

From a hilltop temple between Nong Khai and Mukdahan.