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A lot of my students don't know that I didn't start off with the goal to be in technology. My undergraduate degree was actually in journalism. So right now, my job is mostly with professional development and teacher training. I work with our teachers at school to help them integrate technology into their curriculum and to support them in making that integration as successful as possible.

I get to work in education which is something that I really enjoy working in and that I get to work in technology, which is something that I'm equally passionate about. So I kind of get to merge you know both of those great things. 

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What USF gave me was the opportunity to branch out and rethink you know how I looked at learning essentially, sort of gave me that opportunity, because I really-no education background other than you know computer sportage is working in a school. So with USF I actually got to learn a little bit about the pedagogy and not only how to teach, but how people learn.

How I can help support teachers in their teaching. So my research class was focused on hot-like what issues, trends, and researchers out there that supports professional element and specifically professional development in terms of technology.

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It was almost like the DML program was custom-fit for my current job. My time at USF pretty much prepared me exactly for what I'm doing now. Almost every class that I took and every project that I had done at well-at USF I could apply to what I'm doing now: teacher training, professional development workshops, a lot of the pedagogy that our teachers are really interested in, the skills training, even-even the networking. 

When they see a computer being used and it-it's almost like that lightbulb goes on or they just kind of get a little like twinkle in their eye and a smile on their face, and you say, "Oh my god that's-that's what they can do, that's that's what I can do with this now." And once a teacher hits that moment and it's just like, then they'd start becoming a lot more open to learning about new technology and how to use that to help their students and to help them. And I find that by far is the most interesting thing about computers, is that it has that ability to transform how you see the world.

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If I was to imagine a career outside of Bishop O'Dowd or after Bishop O'Dowd then I would definitely think of moving up towards being a director of technology. And I have people in my program at USF that were directors of technology and you know the fulfillment that they have when their job is fantastic and that's the kind of thing that I would really strive to do.

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