Me, myself and I- and technology too!

Hello there! My name is Jess Gauger and this is my second year at UW-O in the accelerated program for Education. Many of my peers know about me, but in brief, I live in Oshkosh with my boyfirend and his seven year old daughter and our beautiful 5 month old son. I work at Head Start and have been there for six years as a lead teacher, but look forward to hopefully getting a "real" job in a school district some day.

Working in a preschool setting, we use technology, but also working in a program that works with low income families and being very limited for funds (federally funded) we have a computer, but it doesn't have much available. It works when it wants to and the computer games are very outdated. I would love to have internet access for the children in the classroom, but the teaching staff just got upgraded with our computers in the office so I don't think internet access is a priority for the children at the moment. I use email to communicate with parents and they seem to like it because majority of my families have internet at their home.

In conclusion, technology could be an important tool. But I think its going to a tool I need to provide and implement myself.