Hi, my name is Tonya Whitfield and this blog is a requirement for IT 645 -- Computers in Education.
I am a 7th grade Language Arts teacher at Pearl River Central Middle School. Prior to this, I taught kindergarten at a private school in Slidell, Louisiana. I'm also a student at the University of Southern Mississippi, pursuing my Master's of Arts in Teaching. I took several online classes during my undergraduate work, and I am very familiar with most commonly used software. I'm not stranger to e-mail, discussion boards, and listservs either. I've kept a personal blog for several years now. The only thing preventing me from being even more familiar than I am with podcasting is the rural area where I live not having internet access faster than dial up available.
I expect to be introduced to a lot of new material for my classroom through this class, and I look forward to all of the new resources I will encounter.
