Thing 1: Getting Started
Post number 1 for my Cool Tools class. I confess to a few butterflies!😊(In exploring the blogger emojis I did not find a butterfly....🐞) My name is Peggy O’Connor and I am an education "shifter." After working as an elementary teacher for over 15 years (with a gap of 8 years staying home with my son Simon, I went back to school and finished getting my library degree this summer. I am currently working in the East Greenbush school district (outside of Albany) in an elementary school library three days a week and high school library two days a week. This change in my career has reinvigorated my love for teaching. One of the main reasons for my shift was the feeling that teachers need more support in the classroom and I felt that the library was the perfect spot to provide it. I have always enjoyed discovering new tech and introducing it to my students and finding effective ways to use it in the classroom, but in current times find the amount of tech a bit overwhelmi