A Brief Introduction

Greetings!
My name is Sue Shonley.  Above is a video I did in a previous technology course that gives a little more information than what is entailed in the blog.  Feel free to watch it at your leisure!

Personal introduction:
I'm half Korean on my mother's side.  Most of my family lives in Korea with a few cousins scattered around the United States and Canada.  The first part of my childhood was spent in Minnesota.  I moved to Middle Tennessee my sophomore year of high school.  I graduated from a very small school north of Cookeville, TN and started college at MTSU with my major in interior design.  After three years, my father, who had been fighting various forms of cancer, succumbed and passed away.  It was a very troubling time in my life and I decided to take stock of my life and decide if I really wanted to continue with interior design.  During that time, I got a job as a substitute teacher and caught the teaching bug.  After meeting my now fiance, moving to Knoxville, and exploring my options, I decided that the dream of being a teacher would become a reality.

Educational Introduction:
I have now finished a bachelor's in mathematics with a minor in education.  I am currently working on my masters in secondary education with a concentration in mathematics.  As of now, I have finished my year-long internship and am working on my last three masters level classes to finish my degree.  Most importantly, I am waiting for my teaching licence to come in the mail! So exciting!

The purpose of this blog is to explore web 2.0 tools.  My previous internship experience was at a 1-1 school and it has inspired me to take time to focus on learning as much about current technology as I possibly can to prepare for my future in education.  I truly feel that technology in education is here to stay and if we as educators are not willing to stay on top of current technologies and their uses in education, we will not be the best teachers we can be.  It is for this reason that I'm creating this blog - so that I can remind myself of what technologies I've explored and maintain a list of uses and critiques for those technologies.