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Hello, my name is Amanda Torres I am twenty-one years old born and raised in Miami, FL. I currently reside in Tallahassee, FL where I attend Florida State University. I am a junior at FSU working towards my bachelor’s degree in Family and Child Sciences and a minor in Education. I plan to teach at the elementary level when I graduate which is something, I have always known I wanted to do. I work a part time job as the manager of Smallcakes Cupcakery Tallahassee, I have worked there since I first moved here for school and absolutely love and enjoy my job along with those I work with.

I would consider my prior experiences with technology as being basic knowledge. I have previously used smartphones, laptops, the internet, Microsoft word, and Microsoft PowerPoint. I started using technology more just around the time of middle school when the schools started enforcing the use of online learning programs such as the one, I used at the time called “Reading Plus”. In high school we continued the use of Reading Plus butt were also required to take at least one online course in order to graduate. This online course required a student to learn the content, take quizzes and tests all online forcing students to become more comfortable with technology. Now in college we use a program called “Canvas” where we can see all our class grades, complete assignments and tests even when the class may not be an online course. I have taken a computer program course in college which taught students the ins and outs of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. I did decently well in the course learning a lot about Word and PowerPoint but wish I could have learned more about excel.

I hope to take much knowledge away from this course especially how I could utilize technology to best benefit my future students. I believe it is very important as an older generation to keep up with our students’ generation and their abilities/advancements in technology. Being able to fully understand the developing technology and how to incorporate it into my lesson plans creating a technological environment.

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  1. Courtney RolleMay 26, 2019 at 8:52 AM

    Hello Amanda, nice to meet you! I am also a minor in Education and find it interesting that you are focused in teaching elementary. I am a current intern for Teach For America that is one of the amazing educational programs that helps the transition to becoming a teacher. I am also not as familiar with Technology and only used what is required from the school. Technology is very important and also expanding in society. So this course should help with both our knowledge of program softwares and how it can build our career resume. Good luck with the course!

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