I am a Business Education teacher at the School of Business at San Diego High.  I teach many electives, though during the upcoming school year I will be teaching Introduction to Business (with a Finance emphasis), Accounting, and Computer Applications.   I have been teaching  at this school for the last 4 years, and  prior to teaching I used to be a public accountant for KPMG, LLP.

I am very excited to learn about blogs, wikis, and podcasts, as I am very unfamiliar with all of them.   I have blogged before, though only once when I was introducing students to blogger.com, and then when I set up a new account in blogger for Terri’s EDTEC 572 course as an assignment.  I would love to blog more and involve my students, though I worry about how current and up-to-date I would be.  I have heard the term wiki throughout this EDTEC Master’s program, though I still don’t understand exactly what it is and I have never created one.  I have heard of podcasting and know some of my friends upload them to their ipods, though I have never heard one or created one.

I have two ideas for my final project.  I will either utilize it with either my students I teach, or with my students who are in an Academy of Finance program who I am in charge of and an Advisor to.  Until I learn more about what wikis and podcasts are, I am unsure of what exactly I will use.  So at this point my plan will be to utilize blogging.

If I include my Academy of Finance students, I think I will set up and have them blog comments on the different events (field trips, job shadows, etc.) they take part in.  This will give me feedback on my planning and allow them to reflect upon the events as well.  I would be able to do this with them over the summer as well.

If I utilize this with my students I would have the students set up any/all of the blogs, wikis, and podcast learned through this class in my Computer Applications course.  Otherwise I might have my Accounting class be involved as they are all on computers in a lab everyday.