Week 2 Blog

1. What did you learn this week that you will use immediately in your classroom/student training? I really enjoyed the tech explorations. I had no idea that there were so many different resources (and free!) for teachers to use since I am not yet a classroom teacher and have not started my student teaching yet. I could see using the PlanbookEdu in particular, since I like to have a lot of control over organization. When I'm organized, I feel much more relaxed. A tool like PlanbookEdu may help me with that aspect in the future.
2. What steps will you take to implement this in your classroom? This is something that would mainly be mine to use, so downloading and starting to work around in it to get familiar with it before I even begin lesson planning for my own classroom would be my first steps. I would probably need to go through it briefly with my principle and any colleagues that I would be working closely with as well if they are not already familiar with the program. 
3. What challenge(s) will you face when using this in your classroom? If no one else in the building is familiar with or using PlanbookEdu, it could be difficult to make full use of the program by sharing my plans through it. If my principle doesn't want to see my lesson plans via this program, I would have to create traditional plans and that would defeat the purpose of using for and paying for the program in the first place. 
4. What will you do to overcome the challenge(s)? Talking it over with colleagues and the principle would be the best way to overcome that challenge. Introducing it in a positive way and giving my reasoning behind using the program would be my first steps in overcoming the challenge of others being unfamiliar with PlanbookEdu.