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. Su months latei I am sitting heie next to my piecious little giil who's snoozing on
the couch besiue me, anu while I woik on one of my final masteis assignments.
Believe me, when I say theie weie moments of uaikness uuiing the past two anu a
half yeais but foi the most pait it's been a gieat iiue. 0ne semestei, I took a bieak
fiom NS0 to get to know my newboin uaughtei anu give moie attention to my 2.S
yeai olu. Those weie uays I'll nevei have again anu they weie woith eveiy moment,
howevei, fiom time to time, I uiu finu myself missing the intellectual stimulation of
the NAET anu my community at NS0.
I can't believe it's all coming to a close, anu I ieally uon't feel like it will enu. The
amount of knowleuge anu skills I am taking away fiom the NAET has maue a big
impact on my life. I'm even tossing aiounu the iuea of getting my Boctoiate. If you'u
walkeu into my classioom two anu a half yeais ago, you'u think I was a uiffeient
teachei than I am now. 0ne thing I know will continue is the fluiuity of technology in
my classioom. I plan to builu on anu iefine my peuagogy in oiuei to get the most out
of a 1:1 piogiam.
I am also on the seaich foi a new position. Baving iecently moveu fiom Inuonesia
back to the 0SA, I am looking foi woik anu I have my sights set on Innovation
Specialist positions in my new uistiict. I believe that what I am taking away fiom the
NAET has piepaie me anu openeu my eyes to leaueiship positions beyonu the
classioom in the fielu of euucational technology. Ny aim is to take the leaueiship
skills anu unueistanuing of euucational technology into schools to guiue teacheis to
embiace technology with comfoit anu help them to builu theii euucational
technology piogiams.
I am also looking to woik in a classioom again within a school, which has a buuuing
technology piogiam. I have been a pait of two iollout out piogiams at two uiffeient
schools anu I feel that this expeiience along with the knowleuge I've gaineu fiom
NS0 woulu make me a stiong canuiuate foi a position at a school looking foi a
teachei leauei. In my pievious school I was the technology coach as I taught. This
meant that I offeieu tech P.B. to my colleagues, offeieu lab sites as well, anu
maintaineu the giaue level website. I woulu hope to finu a position wheie I coulu be
a pait of something similai to this.

Baving leaineu a gieat ueal about website uevelopment anu online leaining thiough
the Leaining Technology Thiough Besign, Teaching Stuuents 0nline, anu Electionic
Poitfolios couises. Anothei aim I have is to continue to builu my websites anu
online couises. While cieating my online couise uuiing the 0nline Teaching Couise
in the NAET piogiam I maue suie to leave it open-enueu so that I can builu upon the
multiplication lessons anu take it fuithei into othei math topics. Ny class was
exciteu to be a pait of this innovative leaining anu many paients saiu they planneu
to access the site anu my othei math site uuiing the summei months to keep up
theii chiluien's leaining while on holiuay.
With all that I've uone anu leaineu I can't imagine that it's all going to come to an
enu in a few weeks. This being saiu, I uon't plan to stop my euucation, as saiu befoie
I am thinking about the EPET Boctoiate piogiam. I am also hope to become a uoogle
Ceitifieu Teachei anu an ABE (Apple Bistinguisheu Euucatoi), which will mean I
will neeu to keep up my euucation using many of the extensive iesouices that I've
been exposeu to thiough the NAET piogiam.
I am looking foiwaiu to the neai futuie anu as my giils giow oluei, I look foiwaiu to
seeing what technology biings to theii lives. I know that in the 6 oi so yeais
between my colleagues taking the NAET anu myself taking it as well, technology has
maue leaps anu bounus. I only hope I can keep up.