Week 10

Dr. Alice Christie graduated from Arizona University and received her Ph. D in 1995 in Educational Technology and Language Literacy. She was a previous teacher until retirement in the past few years, and now holds workshops on how to enhance learning with technology in the classroom. She believes very strongly in integrating technology in the classroom and bringing her students up to date with current technology as well as any type of future technology that she can. She has devoted herself to a lifelong journey of learning. She also wants to do all that she can to encourage educators to incorporate web design, gps, and any other type of technological thing that will further the education of students in the classroom.

I think there is alot to be learned from people like Dr. Alice Christie. Her website was very informative and very encouraging. As a future educator, it made me want to learn more about what she does and see what all projects she participates in. Her encouragement in the GEOPA project I think is a wonderful thing! Technology is something that is apart of our everyday lives and needs to be taught to everyone everywhere. She believes that using any type of technology in the classroom just about will help us (future educators) in our classrooms. Whether its blogs, email, web pages, gps, or even web cams it can all help children further themselves in some way or another just a little bit. Dr. Christie may not be someone who is well known, but she is definetely someone that is recognizable for what all she is done, and is currently doing. Everything that she encourages is the way of the future, and educators need to take her advice by using tools in the classroom that she suggests!