The best reward people appreciate after helping someone out, is seeing the response, facial expression, and emotions from that person as to how they are thankful for the help. This is the best reward I can get from students and staff, and I have been getting more and more of them. I appreciate the opportunity to help students and staff out and I appreciate their thankful responses after they have been helped. I appreciate being able to go into the classrooms and teach to the students and the staff. I appreciate meeting with staff members just to give them 1 more aspect of technology that could spark their interest and their student's knowledge. I appreciate the opportunity to just come into the classrooms for a few minutes, just to get ideas to better help teachers integrate technology into another part of their learning. And I appreciate the opportunity to get staff members to become comfortable with just 1 new technology integration concept.
I guess what I am trying to say is don't be afraid to ask for help, keep on getting help and learning, and start to become more comfortable with asking others, including your students for help. Providing students with real-world experiences of helping and problem solving is what generates their learning and sparks their excitement for learning. Allowing them to feel they are wanted and needed dispenses a different type of energy that drives them to search more, problem solve more and help more.
This is what the Bulldog Byte team at Hampton-Dumont High School is striving towards. Being the go to personnel for students and staff, being able to problem solve a situation yet knowing that it can not always be solved, and becoming comfortable with helping out staff and especially their peers.
Please keep on using myself as the Technology Integrationist and the Bulldog Byte team at the High School for your technology needs.
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