All About Me and Expectations from TPTE

All About me! My name is Mandy and I have a severe to profound hearing loss in both ears. I am a late returning student to UT to get a masters in Deaf Education. Throughout my journey, I have had to overcome many challenges with very little knowledge on how to advocate for myself. This is the reason that I have a strong desire to be a teacher in the deaf education field.  I am a now and advocate in the deaf/hard of hearing community. Currently, I am the president of the Knoxville chapter to the Hearing Loss Association for America. HLAA is a nationwide support group for individuals with hearing loss and their families.

And lastly, my expectations from this class, Integrating Technology in K-12 Curriculum, is to learn all the different ways to implement technology to assist in my classroom. I am a technology junkie and I have a lot of experience in graphic design programs so I am always playing on the computer manipulating images and documents. I am hoping to learn more about the different types of technology use in the classroom. I want to know how to better reach my students using all the resources available to capture all the different learning styles in my classroom. I also want to learn how to use technology to reach the parents and give them an easier access to me and my classroom curriculums.