Monday, March 16, 2009

Keeping Current

After debriefing with my students that attended the Minnesota State DECA Conference, I had them fill out a short survey. Immediately following the conference, I felt that it was the best conference that I have been apart of for student leadership and responsibility.

One of my personal beliefs is that if you give the students respect, they will give it back. Some other advisors said that I was crazy for ALL (94) my students have my cell phone number. It came in handy because if there was a student that needed to talk to me, they were able to do that.

What I did different this conference is I created a list on my phone using PowerSMS. PowerSMS is a free program that allowed me to create and send the same message to all students. This came in handy when reminding students about bus times, seating assignments and floor meetings.

Overwhelmingly, students have said that they liked it a lot. It allowed the students to have the agenda in their pocket and be on time to meetings, photos and meals. When talking with the students, they loved that I took the initiative to get to their level. This spoke highly and I am planning on continuing. I don't think that we should resist technology, but we should embrace it and use it to our advantage. I just wish schools were not anti-technology and thought about how they could use it, such as daily announcements, or review questions.

Just my thoughts.
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  1. gguswilerMarch 17, 2009 at 7:46 AM

    Great Post Pat! I too agree that we as educators need to embrace technology. I get a kick out of my students reaction when I over hear them talking about a technological problem and I give them the answer. They think that just because I am older I shouldn't like or find technology interesting.

    Again Great Post!
    Greg

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