It seems that I have no clue what I'm doing

I just want to say that I did do the posts on time, but for some reason decided to do them in bloglines. So I've had my posts up and kept wondering why no one could see them until I started looking through everyone else's and realized that we were using blogger to write up everything. HA HA I'm am definitely extremely confused about everything we're doing but even when reading and listening to what we're supposed to do I just go on with the wrong thing. So I'm sorry it took me so long to figure the blogging out, but here are the blogs I posted on bloglines now posted on Blogger :)

After School Programs

The article that I read was called "A New Learning Day" and it was about after school programs and the new ways that they are being used.
After school programs to me were places that you could either one, do your homework or two, play with your friends while waiting for your parents to pick you up. But in this article it shows me the extinsive work being done to make the after school program one where you can almost extend the school day, where children can continue to learn. Most of the article is about budgets and designs for future programs, but altogether the article was a fun one to read.
I liked this article alot, because hopefully by the time I start teaching programs like the ones disscussed will be widespread and active in whatever school I'm in. I think the program will help children to find things that they enjoy in time that they would otherwise be spending doing something that might be less worthy or getting into trouble. The time after school doesn't need to be school, but the activities can still be educational and inspire the kids to extend their creativity. Hopefully there will continue to be good news about this program that I can read later on.

I thought I knew how to use technology...but found out that I really can't

I've been aroung technology since I was little, working with reader rabbit and other types of compter games to help me learn and have fun. After that using the computer involved research on the internet for school and AIM with friends. Since high school I've become a little more competent with the internet and the certain things you can do with it. Anything harder than blackboard, aim, searching the internet, and facebook I can't really figure out and after I do it still takes me awhile to get things to work correctly. I've never really used computers in school and if we did it was for research and that was it. Whatever I learned about computer I learned from my friends or my older brothers who learned from their friends. I wish I could use technology in whatever classroom I'm in, in the future, but I'm scared that even though I'll learn the important things now and forget how to use them in a classroom later in life. So I'm hoping that once I have learned all this new information it'll stick and I'll be able to pass it down to my classroom and fellow teachers that might not know these things