Cathryn+Roller

Hi! My name is Cathryn Roller. I was born in Cincinnati, but was raised in Southern Georgia. I lived on a little tourist Island called St. Simons Island and got to go to the beach year round! It was very pretty down there. In High School, my family moved back up to Ohio. I still miss it down there, but Cincinnati grew on my in a funny way over the past ten years. Kind of like a fungus.

I graduated from Wittenberg University in 2005 with a Bachelors degree in Geography. After realizing that I would need a masters to land any sort of livable job, I decided that I wanted to go back to school for Education. Hence why I am in the first year of the Curriculum and Instruction Masters program. I recently completed my first practicum at Heritage Hills Elementary School in a fifth grade classroom and loved it. I enjoy going to UC. Despite how much we all complain about tuition, it is much cheaper then Wittenberg, plus I have scholarships and grants that help out a lot. I have been lucky enough to have had great instructors so far. For the most part, I have also enjoyed my classes.



I spend a lot of my time reading and listening to music. I also like cooking, but I'm not the best at it. I love trying out new recipes.

What I hope to learn from this class is technology that is useful in the classroom and handy to have knowledge of. For the most part, the only things I know about technology are things like how to work my computer and ipod, which I take everywhere with me. I really only know enough to get buy. I'd like to learn a lot more than this.

My fears are that I will not understand the technology and it will go over my head. Not only do I need to know these things to pass this class, but also to use them in everyday life.

I choose a computer to show what Educational Technology means to me simply because Computers have changed the entire way I went about doing schoolwork as a child compared to now. For reports, as a small child I used to go to the Library and use the encyclopedia. Now Encyclopedia Britannica is entirely online and is no longer printing hard copies. Instead of going to the library I search for books on the library website and have them delivered to the branch closest to me for pick up. All my classes this quarter have some sort of online component and two are hybrid classes and one is an online class. Ironically, this class is the one I will spend the most time in the classroom in!

This is a great blog, called Cool Cat Teacher Blog created by Vicki Davis. It gives great tips and uses for technology in the classroom and also great advice for teachers in general. [|http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-it-is-ok-to-get-complaints-pep.html#disqus_thread] I really liked what she had to say and left a comment on her blog.

And here is my blog for the class, if you would like to look at it :O)

http://cathrynroller.edublogs.org/